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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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LOVE'S FATALITY

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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weet Love,--but oh! most dread Desire of LoveLife-thwarted. Linked in gyves I saw them stand,Love shackled with Vain-longing, hand to hand:And one was eyed as the blue vault above:But hope tempestuous like a fire-cloud hoveI' the other's gaze, even as in his whose wandVainly all night with spell-wrought power has spann'dThe unyielding caves of some deep treasure-trove. Also his lips, two writhen flakes of flame,Made moan: 'Alas O Love, thus leashed with me!Wing-footed thou, wing-shouldered, once born free:And I, thy cowering self, in chains grown tame,Bound to thy body and soul, named with thy name,Life's iron heart, even Love's Fatality.'
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