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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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Elizabeth Barrett Browning·1806–1861
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o motionless she sate,The babe asleep upon her knees,You might have dreamed their souls had goneAway to things inanimate,In such to live, in such to moan;And that their bodies had ta'en back,In mystic change, all silencesThat cross the sky in cloudy rack,Or dwell beneath the reedy groundIn waters safe from their own sound:Only she woreThe deepening smile I named before,And _that_ a deepening love expressed;And who at once can love and rest?
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