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1 " Two or three angelsCame near to the earth.They saw a fat church.Little black streams of peopleCame and went in continually.And the angels were puzzledTo know why the people went thus,And why they stayed so long within. "
― Stephen Crane , Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
2 " Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys. "
3 " When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me. "
4 " It was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like a lambkin.""Not so," quoth the manWho had no fear of spirits;"It is only wrong for angelsWho can live like the flowers,Holding malice like the puppies,Waging war like the lambkins. "
5 " When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey. "
6 " Little Birds of the Night"LITTLE birds of the nightAye, they have much to tellPerching there in rowsBlinking at me with their serious eyesRecounting of flowers they have seen and lovedOf meadows and groves of the distanceAnd pale sands at the foot of the seaAnd breezes that fly in the leaves.They are vast in experienceThese little birds that come in the night "