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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 the Thames.

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
hough with those streams he no resemblance hold,Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold;His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore,Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.