Arts & Sciences
XVI. There was a man with tongue of wood
From War Is Kind (1899)
Arts & Sciences
There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing,
And in truth it was lamentable.
But there was one who heard
The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood
And knew what the man
Wished to sing,
And with that the singer was content.
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MLA
Crane, Stephen. “XVI. There was a man with tongue of wood.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/83/.
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Crane, Stephen. “XVI. There was a man with tongue of wood.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/83/.
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