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WAR IS KIND: 36 by STEPHEN CRANE

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First Line: LOVE MET ME AT NOONDAY
Last Line: WHERE A HEART STILL BEAT FOR THEE, BELOVED.

@3Love met me at noonday
-- Reckless imp,
To leave his shaded nights
And brave the glare --
And I saw him then plainly
For a bungler,
A stupid, simpering, eyeless bungler,
Breaking the hearts of brave people
As the snivelling idiot-boy cracks his bowl,
And I cursed him,
Cursed him to and fro, back and forth,
Into all the silly mazes of his mind,
But in the end
He laughed and pointed to my breast,
Where a heart still beat for thee, beloved.@1



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