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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 Thrush's Nest

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John Clare·1793–1864·Romanticism
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ithin a thick and spreading hawthorn bush, That overhung a molehill large and round,I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns to sunrise, and I drank the soundWith joy; and, often an intruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day--How true she warped the moss, to form a nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay;And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There lay her shining eggs, as bright as flowers,Ink-spotted-over shells of greeny blue; And there I witnessed in the sunny hoursA brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly,Glad as that sunshine and the laughing sky.
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