Poem: “Tradition, thou art for suckling children” by Stephen Crane

The Black Rider & Other Lines (1905)

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American Literature – American Poetry – Stephen Crane – Poems by Stephen Crane –The Black Rider & Other Lines
< < < I was in the Darkness
Many red devils ran from my heart > > >

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Tradition, thou art for suckling children

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Tradition, thou art for suckling children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;
But no meat for men is in thee.
Then —
But, alas, we all are babes.

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< < < I was in the Darkness
Many red devils ran from my heart > > >

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

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