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 gives her lover
To another woman
We will fight in bloody scuffle.''
Sadly the people added:
'There are no violets here.'
More verses by Stephen Crane
- Once There Was A Man
- Mystic Shadow
- Three Little Birds In A Row
- Yes, I Have A Thousand Tongues
- The Chatter Of A Death-Demon From A Tree-Top