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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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A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television.

“The lead actor delivered a powerful performance that moved the entire audience to tears.”

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Greater Love

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Wilfred Owen·1893–1918
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ed lips are not so redAs the stained stones kissed by the English dead.Kindness of wooed and wooerSeems shame to their love pure.O Love, your eyes lose lureWhen I behold eyes blinded in my stead! Your slender attitudeTrembles not exquisite like limbs knife-skewed,Rolling and rolling thereWhere God seems not to care;Till the fierce Love they bearCramps them in death's extreme decrepitude. Your voice sings not so soft,--Though even as wind murmuring through raftered loft,--Your dear voice is not dear,Gentle, and evening clear,As theirs whom none now hearNow earth has stopped their piteous mouths that coughed. Heart, you were never hot,Nor large, nor full like hearts made great with shot;And though your hand be pale,Paler are all which trailYour cross through flame and hail:Weep, you may weep, for you may touch them not.
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