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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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XXIX.

35 lines
Elizabeth Barrett Browning·1806–1861
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Oh, the dream within the dream!I saw celestial places even.Oh, the vistas of high palmsMaking finites of delightThrough the heavenly infinite,Lifting up their green still topsTo the heaven of heaven!Oh, the sweet life-tree that dropsShade like light across the riverGlorified in its for-everFlowing from the Throne!Oh, the shining holinessesOf the thousand, thousand facesGod-sunned by the throned ONE,And made intense with such a loveThat, though I saw them turned above,Each loving seemed for also me!And, oh, the Unspeakable, the HE,The manifest in secreciesYet of mine own heart partakerWith the overcoming lookOf One who hath been once forsookAnd blesseth the forsaker!Mother, mother, let me goToward the Face that looketh so!Through the mystic winged FourWhose are inward, outward eyesDark with light of mysteriesAnd the restless evermore'Holy, holy, holy,'--throughThe sevenfold Lamps that burn in viewOf cherubim and seraphim,--Through the four-and-twenty crownedStately elders white around,Suffer me to go to Him!
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