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The Black Riders & Other Lines/There was a crimson clash of war.

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There was a crimson clash of war.
by Stephen Crane

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

4240There was a crimson clash of war.Stephen Crane

There was crimson clash of war.
Lands turned black and bare;
Women wept;
Babes ran, wondering.
There came one who understood not these things.
He said, "Why is this?"
Whereupon a million strove to answer him.
There was such intricate clamour of tongues,
That still the reason was not.