Poem: “If I should cast off this tattered coat” by Stephen Crane

The Black Rider & Other Lines (1905)

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If I should cast off this tattered coat

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If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant —
What then?

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American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane – The Black Rider & Other Lines

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