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Poem: “Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground” by Stephen Crane

The Black Rider & Other Lines (1905)

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American LiteratureAmerican PoetryStephen CranePoems by Stephen CraneThe Black Rider & Other Lines
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Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground


Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground.
Why do you stand, expectant?
Do you hope to see it
In one of your withered days?
With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The triumphal march of justice?
Do not wait, friend!
Take your white beard
And your old eyes
To more tender lands.


< < < There was a great cathedral
Once, I knew a fine song > > >

American LiteratureAmerican PoetryStephen CranePoems by Stephen CraneThe Black Rider & Other Lines


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