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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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THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti·1828–1882·Symbolism
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ike labour-laden moonclouds faint to fleeFrom winds that sweep the winter-bitten wold,--Like multiform circumfluence manifoldOf night's flood-tide,--like terrors that agreeOf hoarse-tongued fire and inarticulate sea,--Even such, within some glass dimmed by our breath,Our hearts discern wild images of Death,Shadows and shoals that edge eternity. Howbeit athwart Death's imminent shade doth soarOne Power, than flow of stream or flight of doveSweeter to glide around, to brood above.Tell me, my heart;--what angel-greeted doorOr threshold of wing-winnowed threshing-floorHath guest fire-fledged as thine, whose lord is Love?
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