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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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IX.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning·1806–1861
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My lips do need thy breath,My lips do need thy smile,And my pallid eyne, that light in thineWhich met the stars erewhile:Yet go with light and lifeIf that thou lovest oneIn all the earth who loveth theeAs truly as the sun,Margret, Margret."
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