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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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As through Verona's streets he went.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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' Lo, he that strolls to Hell and backAt will I Behold him, how Hell's reekHas crisped his beard and singed his cheek.^ " Whereat " (Boccaccio's words) " he smil'dFor pride in fame." It might be so :Nevertheless we cannot know
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