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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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One hand was tightly clinched till the muscles

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Paul Laurence Dunbar·1872–1906·modernist literature
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Could n’t find your folks, eh, Nelse? ” saidthe white Hatton. “No,” growled Nelse; and continued hur-riedly, “ Do you remember that scar?” “ Well enough — well enough,” answeredthe other, sadly; “Cand it must have hurt you,Nelse.” “Hurt me! yes,” cried the Negro. “¢ Ay,” said Tom Hatton, as he rose and puthis hand softly on the black scar; “and it hashurt me many a day since, though time and timeagain I have suffered pains that were as cruel asthis must have been to you. Think of it, Nelse ;there have been times when I, a Hatton, haveasked bread of the very people whom a fewyears ago I scorned. Since the War everythinghas gone against me. You do not know how Ihave suffered. For thirty years life has been acurse to me; but I am going back to Kentuckynow, and when I get there [’ll lay it downwithout a regret.”
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