The Mind
LXVI. If I should cast off this tattered coat
From The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895)
The Mind
If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant,--
What then?
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MLA
Crane, Stephen. “LXVI. If I should cast off this tattered coat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/65/.
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Crane, Stephen. “LXVI. If I should cast off this tattered coat.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/65/.
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