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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 church-meeting promptly found Brother

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Paul Laurence Dunbar·1872–1906·modernist literature
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32 MT. PISGAH’S CHRISTMAS ’POSSUM expelled him in disgrace from fellowship withMt. Pisgah church. The excellence of the one ’possum which thewomen prepared only fed their angry feelings, asit suggested what the whole four would havebeen; but the hungry men, women, and childrenwho had foregone their Christmas dinners athome ate as cheerfully as possible, and whenMt. Pisgah’s congregation went home that day,salt pork was in great demand to fill out the voidleft by the meagre fare of Christmas possum. 133 fiPy
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