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Poetry Library

— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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III.

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Coventry Patmore·1823–1896
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ot in the crises of events,Of compass’d hopes, or fears fulfill’d,Or acts of gravest consequence,Are life’s delight and depth reveal’d.The day of days was not the day;That went before, or was postponed;The night Death took our lamp awayWas not the night on which we groan’d.I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
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