Poem: “You say you are holy” by Stephen Crane

The Black Rider & Other Lines (1905)

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You say you are holy

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You say you are holy,
And that
Because I have not seen you sin.
Aye, but there are those
Who see you sin, my friend.

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< < < I stood musing in a black world
A man went before a strange God > > >

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

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