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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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293 Yet still with people, peace, and plenty flows.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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till > ever 294295 But (jolly shepherd) though with pleasing style jolly > gallant, finestyle > style; literary composition, _hence:_ poem, song (cf. _SC_,"Januarie", 10) 296 you feast the humour of the courtly train: humour > state of mind; _hence:_ tastestrain > assembly, entourage 297 Let not conceit your settled sense beguile,298 nor daunted be through envy or disdain.299 Subject your doom to her empiring spirit, doom > fateempiring > imperial
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