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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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GRACIOUS MOONLIGHT

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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ven as the moon grows queenlier in mid-spaceWhen the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt carThrills with intenser radiance from afar,--So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign graceWhen the drear soul desires thee. Of that faceWhat shall be said,--which, like a governing star,Gathers and garners from all things that areTheir silent penetrative loveliness? O'er water-daisies and wild waifs of Spring,There where the iris rears its gold-crowned sheafWith flowering rush and sceptred arrow-leaf,So have I marked Queen Dian, in bright ringOf cloud above and wave below, take wingAnd chase night's gloom, as thou the spirit's grief.
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