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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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SCENE III.

17 lines
Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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ALI, _solus_. How heav'n, in scorn of human arrogance,Commits to trivial chance the fate of nations!While, with incessant thought, laborious manExtends his mighty schemes of wealth and pow'r,And towers and triumphs in ideal greatness;Some accidental gust of oppositionBlasts all the beauties of his new creation,O'erturns the fabrick of presumptuous reason,And whelms the swelling architect beneath it.Had not the breeze untwin'd the meeting boughs,And, through the parted shade, disclos'd the Greeks,Th' important hour had pass'd, unheeded, by,In all the sweet oblivion of delight,In all the fopperies of meeting lovers;In sighs and tears, in transports and embraces,In soft complaints, and idle protestations.
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