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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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IV-V I PRAY YOU IF YOU LOVE ME

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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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pray you if you love me, bear my joyA little while, or let me weep your tears;I, too, have seen the quavering Fate destroyYour destiny’s bright spinning--the dull shearsMeeting not neatly, chewing at the thread,--Nor can you well be less aware how fine,How staunch as wire, and how unwarrantedEndures the golden fortune that is mine.I pray you for this day at least, my dear,Fare by my side, that journey in the sun;Else must I turn me from the blossoming yearAnd walk in grief the way that you have gone.Let us go forth together to the spring:Love must be this, if it be anything.
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