Poem by Stephen Crane

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Once a man clambering to the housetops
Appealed to the heavens.
With strong voice he called to the deaf spheres;
A warrior’s shout he raised to the suns.
Lo, at last, there was a dot on the clouds,
And -- at last and at last --
-- God -- the sky was filled with armies.

1. Blustering God
2. I walked in a desert
3. Many workmen
4. The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds
5. Mystic shadow, bending near me

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