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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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MEMORY OF CAPE COD

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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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he wind in the ash-tree sounds like surf on theshore at Truro.I will shut my eyes . . . hush, be still with yoursilly bleating, sheep on Shillingstone Hill . . . _They said: Come along! They said: Leave your__pebbles on the sand and come along, it’s long after__sunset!__The mosquitoes will be thick in the pine-woods along__by Long Nook, the wind’s died down!__They said: Leave your pebbles on the sand, and your__shells, too, and come along, we’ll find you another__beach like the beach at Truro._ Let me listen to wind in the ash ... it sounds likesurf on the shore.
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