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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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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.