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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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CLOUD AND WIND

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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ove, should I fear death most for you or me?Yet if you die, can I not follow you,Forcing the straits of change? Alas! but whoShall wrest a bond from night's inveteracy,Ere yet my hazardous soul put forth, to beHer warrant against all her haste might rue?--Ah! in your eyes so reached what dumb adieu,What unsunned gyres of waste eternity? And if I die the first, shall death be thenA lampless watchtower whence I see you weep?--Or (woe is me!) a bed wherein my sleepNe'er notes (as death's dear cup at last you drain),The hour when you too learn that all is vainAnd that Hope sows what Love shall never reap?
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