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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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MAHOMET, MUSTAPHA, CALI, ABDALLA.

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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AHOMET.Henceforth, for ever happy be this day,Sacred to love, to pleasure, and Irene!The matchless fair has bless'd me with compliance;Let every tongue resound Irene's praise,And spread the gen'ral transport through mankind. CALI.Blest prince, for whom indulgent heav'n ordains,At once, the joys of paradise and empire,Now join thy people's and thy Cali's prayers;Suspend thy passage to the seats of bliss,Nor wish for houries in Irene's arms.
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