War is Kind by Stephen Crane
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Of the familiar false and true?
Is this God? Where, then is hell? Show me some bastard mushrooms Sprung from a pollution of blood. It is better. Where is God? "Have you ever made a just man?" "Oh, I have made three," answered God, "But two of them are dead, "And the third-- "Listen! Listen! "And you will hear the thud of his defeat." I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night, The sweep of each sad lost wave, The dwindling boom of the steel thing's striving, The little cry of a man to a man, A shadow falling across the greyer night, And the sinking of the small star; |
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