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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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XIII.

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Edmund Spenser·1552–1599
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or the swift furie of the flames aspiring,Nor the deep wounds of victours raging blade,Nor ruthlesse spoyle of souldiers blood-desiring,The which so oft thee, Rome, their conquest made,Ne stroke on stroke of fortune variable,Ne rust of age hating continuance,Nor wrath of gods, nor spight of men unstable,Nor thou oppos’d against thine owne puissance,Nor th’horrible uprore of windes high blowing,Nor swelling streames of that god snakie-paced*Which hath so often with his overflowingThee drenched, have thy pride so much abaced,But that this nothing, which they have thee left,Makes the world wonder what they from thee reft.[* _Snakie-paced_, winding; or perhaps (like Ovid’s _anguipes_) swift.]
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