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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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NUPTIAL SLEEP

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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t length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.Their bosoms sundered, with the opening startOf married flowers to either side outspreadFrom the knit stem; yet still their mouths, burnt red,Fawned on each other where they lay apart. Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams,And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.Slowly their souls swam up again, through gleamsOf watered light and dull drowned waifs of day;Till from some wonder of new woods and streamsHe woke, and wondered more: for there she lay.
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