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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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If he should lie a-dying

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am not willing you should goInto the earth, where Helen went;She is awake by now, I know.Where Cleopatra's anklets rustYou will not lie with my consent;And Sappho is a roving dust;Cressid could love again; Dido,Rotted in state, is restless still:You leave me much against my will.