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. In the night
2. To the maiden
3. You tell me this is God?
4. Behold, from the land of the farther suns
5. On the horizon the peaks assembled

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