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• El caminante, al percibir el camino de la verdad, quedó asombrado. Estaba lleno de maleza. "Ja", dijo, "veo que nadie ha pasado por aquí en mucho tiempo". Más tarde vio que cada hierba era un cuchillo singular. "Bueno," murmuró al fin, "Sin duda hay otros caminos.

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  Weed, Truth, Knives

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.

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  Eye, Trying, Answers

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.61, Broadview Press

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• Cuando el profeta, un gordo complaciente, Llegó a la cima de la montaña Gritó: "¡Ay de mi conocimiento! Pretendía ver buenas tierras blancas Y malas tierras negras- Pero la escena es gris.

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  Men, Land, White

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.9, Library of Alexandria

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• A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

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  Ojo, Hombres, Manos

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.

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  Father, War, Yellow

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• I saw a man pursuing the horizon

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  Men, Horizon, Saws

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.53, Courier Dover Publications

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• A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

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  Men, Tree, Firsts

  Stephen Crane (1994). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.

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  Hombres, Literatura, Mundo

  Stephen Crane, Joseph Katz (1970). “Stephen Crane in the West and Mexico”

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• Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

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  Rain, Clouds, Rivers

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.212, Library of America

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• And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

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  Fate, Soldier, Enemy

  Stephen Crane (2014). “The Red Badge of Courage”, p.61, Broadview Press

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• If I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned – if I am going to be drowned, why in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate land and trees?

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  Sea, Land, Names

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.898, Library of America

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• A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

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  Mysterious, Fraternity, Danger

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• If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.

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  Struggle, Littles, Tiny

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

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  Night, Men, Wind

  David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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• A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

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  Wise, Men, Assassins

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage.

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  Said, New Roads, Rate

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1304, Library of America

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• Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.

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  War, Hands, Lovers

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

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  Lying, War, Fighting

  Stephen Crane (1899). “War Is Kind”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

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  Lying, Men, Horizon

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Dover Publications

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• Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

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  Angel, Two, Long

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Dover Publications

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• Tradición, tú eres para los niños de pecho, Tú eres la leche vivificante para los bebés, Pero en ti no hay carne para los hombres.

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  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• Rápida bandera flameante del regimiento,Águila con cresta roja y dorada,Estos hombres nacieron para perforar y morir.Señálales la virtud de la matanza,Explícales la excelencia de matarY un campo donde yacen mil cadáveres.

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  Lying, Men, Eagles

  Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

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• A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the unfortunates rail; the others may play marbles.

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  Men, Thinking, Play

  Stephen Crane, Anthony Matthew Mellors, Fiona Robertson (1998). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.77, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.

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  Strong, Lying, Home

  Stephen Crane (2016). “Wounds in the Rain”, p.39, Stephen Crane

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• Bajo la lluvia arremolinada que caía al atardecer, la amplia avenida brillaba con ese profundo tinte azulado que tanto se condena cuando se pone en imágenes.

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  Rain, Book, Broads

  David Halliburton, Stephen Crane (1989). “The Color of the Sky: A Study of Stephen Crane”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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