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THE BLACK RIDERS: 66 by STEPHEN CRANE

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First Line: IF I SHOULD CAST OFF THIS TATTERED COAT
Last Line: WHAT THEN?

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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