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
- There Came Whisperings In The Winds
- When A People Reach The Top Of A Hill,
- The Chatter Of A Death-Demon From A Tree-Top
- Once A Man Clambering To The Housetops
- On The Horizon The Peaks Assembled