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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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STILLBORN LOVE

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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he hour which might have been yet might not be,Which man's and woman's heart conceived and boreYet whereof life was barren,--on what shoreBides it the breaking of Time's weary sea?Bondchild of all consummate joys set free,It somewhere sighs and serves, and mute beforeThe house of Love, hears through the echoing doorHis hours elect in choral consonancy. But lo! what wedded souls now hand in handTogether tread at last the immortal strandWith eyes where burning memory lights love home?Lo! how the little outcast hour has turnedAnd leaped to them and in their faces yearned:--'I am your child: O parents, ye have come!'
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