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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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CALI, DEMETRIUS, LEONTIUS, ABDALLA.

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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EMETRIUS.When will occasion smile upon our wishes,And give the tortures of suspense a period?Still must we linger in uncertain hope?Still languish in our chains, and dream of freedom,Like thirsty sailors gazing on the clouds,Till burning death shoots through their wither'd limbs? CALI.Deliverance is at hand; for Turkey's tyrant,Sunk in his pleasures, confident and gay,With all the hero's dull security,Trusts to my care his mistress and his life,And laughs, and wantons in the jaws of death.
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