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The Black Riders & Other Lines/Many workmen

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Many workmen
by Stephen Crane

This poem was published in 1905 in the volume The Black Rider & Other Lines.

4260Many workmenStephen Crane

Many workmen
Built a huge ball of masonry
Upon a mountain-top.
Then they went to the valley below,
And turned to behold their work.
"It is grand," they said;
They loved the thing.

Of a sudden, it moved:
It came upon them swiftly;
It crushed them all to blood.
But some had opportunity to squeal.