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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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The Shepherd's Tree

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John Clare·1793–1864·Romanticism
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uge elm, with rifted trunk all notched and scarred, Like to a warrior's destiny! I loveTo stretch me often on thy shadowed sward, And hear the laugh of summer leaves above;Or on thy buttressed roots to sit, and lean In careless attitude, and there reflectOn times, and deeds, and darings that have been-- Old castaways, now swallowed in neglect;While thou art towering in thy strength of heart, Stirring the soul to vain imaginings,In which life's sordid being hath no part. The wind of that eternal ditty sings,Humming of future things, that burn the mind To leave some fragment of itself behind.
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