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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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He says of the Messiah:

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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ound the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound,_And reach to worlds that must not yet be found_. In another place, of David: Yet bid him go securely, when he sends;_'Tis Saul that is his foe, and we his friends.The man who has his God, no aid can lack;And we who bid him go, will bring him back._ Yet, amidst his negligence, he sometimes attempted an improved andscientifick versification; of which it will be best to give his ownaccount subjoined to this line: Nor can the glory contain itself in th' endless space. "I am sorry that it is necessary to admonish the most part of readers,that it is not by negligence that this verse is so loose, long, and,as it were, vast; it is to paint in the number the nature of the thingwhich it describes, which I would have observed in divers other placesof this poem, that else will pass for very careless verses: as before, And overruns the neighb'ring fields with violent course. "In the second book, Down a precipice deep, down he casts them all. "And,
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