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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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On Strafford.

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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is wisdom such, at once, it did appearThree kingdoms' wonder, and three kingdoms' fear.While single he stood forth, and seem'd, althoughEach had an army, as an equal foe;Such was his force of eloquence to makeThe hearers more concern'd than he that spake:Each seem'd to act that part he came to see,And none was more a looker-on than he;So did he move our passions, some were knownTo wish, for the defence, the crime their own.Now private pity strove with public hate,Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
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