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Poem by Stephen Crane


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A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he achieved it --
It was clay.

Now this is the strange part:
When the man went to the earth
And looked again,
Lo, there was the ball of gold.
Now this is the strange part:
It was a ball of gold.
Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.



Stephen Crane


Stephen Crane's other poems:
  1. Blustering God
  2. I walked in a desert
  3. Love walked alone
  4. Many workmen
  5. "It was wrong to do this," said the angel


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