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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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Lift up your lyres! Sing on!

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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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Memorial to D. C._ [VASSAR COLLEGE, 1918] _Oh, loveliest throat of all sweet throats,Where now no more the music is,With hands that wrote you little notesI write you little elegies!_ I _Epitaph_ Heap not on this moundRoses that she loved so well;Why bewilder her with roses,That she cannot see or smell?She is happy where she liesWith the dust upon her eyes.
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