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Dec 6, 2009
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by Stephen Crane
Once a man clambering to the housetops
Appealed to the heavens.
With a strong voice he called to the deaf
    spheres;
A warrior's shout he raised to the suns.
Lo, at last, there was a dot on the clouds,
And—at last and at last—
—God—the sky was filled with armies.
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