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ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students
Poetry Library

— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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ACT V.

13 lines
Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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dam and Eve driven out of Paradise.------presented by an angel withLabour, Grief, Hatred, Envy, War, Famine, }Pestilence, Sickness, Discontent, Ignorance, } Mutes.Fear, Death, }To whom he gives their names. Likewise Winter, Heat,Tempest, &c.Faith, }Hope, }comfort him, and instruct him.Charity, }Chorus briefly concludes. Such was his first design, which could have produced only an allegory,or mystery. The following sketch seems to have attained more maturity.
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