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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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Ashes of Life

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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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ove has gone and left me and the days are all alike;Eat I must, and sleep I will,--and would that night were here!But ah!--to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!Would that it were day again!--with twilight near! Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;This or that or what you will is all the same to me;But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through,--There's little use in anything as far as I can see. Love has gone and left me,--and the neighbors knock and borrow,And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,--And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrowThere's this little street and this little house.
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