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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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209. Song—M’Pherson’s Farewell

28 lines
Robert Burns·1759–1796·Romanticism
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AREWELL, ye dungeons dark and strong, The wretch’s destinie!M’Pherson’s time will not be long On yonder gallows-tree.  Chorus.—Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he;He play’d a spring, and danc’d it round, Below the gallows-tree.  O, what is death but parting breath? On many a bloody plainI’ve dared his face, and in this place I scorn him yet again! Sae rantingly, &c.  Untie these bands from off my hands, And bring me to my sword;And there’s no a man in all Scotland But I’ll brave him at a word. Sae rantingly, &c.  I’ve liv’d a life of sturt and strife; I die by treacherie:It burns my heart I must depart, And not avengèd be. Sae rantingly, &c.  Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, And all beneath the sky!May coward shame distain his name, The wretch that dares not die! Sae rantingly, &c.
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