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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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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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unctuation, hyphenation, and spelling inconsistencies were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation markswere remedied by examining other copies of the same poems. Transcriber added a missing exclamation mark at the end of “Burial.” Decorative floral bullets are similar, but not identical, to the onesin the original.
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