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XXIII. There was a land where lived no violets
From War Is Kind (1899)
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There was a land where lived no
violets.
A traveller at once demanded: "Why?"
The people told him:
"Once the violets of this place spoke thus:
"'Until some woman freely give her lover
"'To another woman
"'We will fight in bloody scuffle.'"
Sadly the people added:
"There are no violets here."
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Crane, Stephen. “XXIII. There was a land where lived no violets.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/90/.
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Crane, Stephen. “XXIII. There was a land where lived no violets.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/crane/90/.
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