Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and … - Stephen Crane

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Stephen Crane

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

Die, Eagles, Flag, Lying, Men, Thousand

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Let me into the darkness again.

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Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

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The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

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A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

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In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned when it is put into pictures.

Book, Broads, Glistened, Rain, Widely