Three Songs of Shattering
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The first rose on my rose-treeBudded, bloomed, and shattered,During sad days when to meNothing mattered. Grief of grief has drained me clean;Still it seems a pityNo one saw,--it must have beenVery pretty.
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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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