Poem: “Each small gleam was a voice” by Stephen Crane

War is Kind & Other Lines (1905)

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American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – War is Kind & Other Lines
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The trees in the garden rained flowers > > >

Each small gleam was a voice

Each small gleam was a voice,
A lantern voice —
In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
A chorus of colours came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was elsewhere a silence,
When the chorus of colours came over the water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.

Small glowing pebbles
Thrown on the dark plane of evening
Sing good ballads of God
And eternity, with soul’s rest.
Little priests, little holy fathers,
None can doubt the truth of your hymning,
When the marvellous chorus comes over the water,
Songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.

< < < Ay, workman, make me a dream
The trees in the garden rained flowers > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – War is Kind & Other Lines

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