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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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NOT THEY WHO SOAR

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Paul Laurence Dunbar·1872–1906·modernist literature
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ot they who soar, but they who plodTheir rugged way, unhelped, to GodAre heroes; they who higher fare,And, flying, fan the upper air,Miss all the toil that hugs the sod.'Tis they whose backs have felt the rod,Whose feet have pressed the path unshod,May smile upon defeated care,Not they who soar. High up there are no thorns to prod,Nor boulders lurking 'neath the clodTo turn the keenness of the share,For flight is ever free and rare;But heroes they the soil who 've trod,Not they who soar!
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