Poem: “Well, Then I Hate Thee” by Stephen Crane

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Well, Then I Hate Thee

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         “And the sins of the fathers shall be
          visited upon the heads of the children,
          even unto the third and fourth
          generation of them that hate me.”

Well, then I hate thee, unrighteous picture;
Wicked image, I hate thee;
So, strike with thy vengeance
The heads of those little men
Who come blindly.
It will be a brave thing.

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