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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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10 ANTONY BRADE.

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Robert Lowell·1917–1977
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ing off to the Greek Kalends) ; one got it down as" Copious P^" and in explanation wrote that ho"thought the rest was only boys' fooling." A party in the school strongly set about nicknamingit "Cop;" another tried to call it "Trasy;" and theschool settled down upon "Lake Thrash," and there itis this day with that name belonging to it ; and theboys of St. Bart's are resolutely determined never tobuy map or atlas made by any one of those men. CHAPTER n.
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