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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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THE CAIRN

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Edna St. Vincent Millay·1892–1950
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hen I think of the little children learningIn all the schools of the world,Learning in Danish, learning in JapaneseThat two and two are four, and where the rivers ofthe worldRise, and the names of the mountains and the principalcities,My heart breaks.Come up, children! Toss your little stones gailyOn the great cairn of Knowledge!(Where lies what Euclid knew, a little gray stone,What Plato, what Pascal, what Galileo:Little gray stones, little gray stones on a cairn.)Tell me, what is the name of the highest mountain?Name me a crater of fire! a peak of snow!Name me the mountains on the moon!But the name of the mountain that you climball day,Ask not your teacher that.
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