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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-SWEETNESS

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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weet dimness of her loosened hair's downfallAbout thy face; her sweet hands round thy headIn gracious fostering union garlanded,Her tremulous smiles, her glances' sweet recallOf love; her murmuring sighs memorial;Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shedOn cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so ledBack to her mouth which answers there for all:-- What sweeter than these things, except the thingIn lacking which all these would lose their sweet:--The confident heart's still fervour: the swift beatAnd soft subsidence of the spirit's wing,Then when it feels, in cloud--girt wayfaring,The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?
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