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Poem: “When the prophet, a complacent fat man” by Stephen Crane

War is Kind & Other Lines (1905)

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When the prophet, a complacent fat man


When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: “Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands,
But the scene is grey.”


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