Poem by Stephen Crane

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There was a land where lived no violets.
A traveller at once demanded : ”Why?”
The people told him:
”Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
’Until some woman freely gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.’”
Sadly the people added:
”There are no violets here.”

1. Many red devils ran from my heart
2. And you love me
3. Tell brave deeds of war
4. I walked in a desert
5. I stood upon a highway

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