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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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HEART'S COMPASS

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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ometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,But as the meaning of all things that are;A breathless wonder, shadowing forth afarSome heavenly solstice hushed and halcyon;Whose unstirred lips are music's visible tone;Whose eyes the sun-gate of the soul unbar,Being of its furthest fires oracular;--The evident heart of all life sown and mown. Even such Love is; and is not thy name Love?Yea, by thy hand the Love-god rends apartAll gathering clouds of Night's ambiguous art;Flings them far down, and sets thine eyes above;And simply, as some gage of flower or glove,Stakes with a smile the world against thy heart.
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