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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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Vachel Lindsay·1879–1931
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ove?... we will scarcely love our babes full many a time--Knowing their souls and ours too well, and all our grime--And there beside our holy hearth we'll hide our eyes--Lest we should flash what seems disdain without disguise.Yet there shall be no wavering there in that deep trial--And no false fire or stranger hand or traitor vile--We'll fight the gloom and fight the world with strong sword-play,Entrenched within our block-house small, ever at bay--As fellow-warriors, underpaid, wounded and wild,True to their battered flag, their faith still undefiled!
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