The University of Virginia Edition of The Works of Stephen Crane Volume X : Poems and Literary Remains |
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[A row of thick pillars]
A row of thick pillarsConsciously bracing for the weight
Of a vanished roof
The bronze light of sunset strikes through them,
And over a floor made for slow rites.
There is no sound of singing
But, aloft, a great and terrible bird
Is watching a cur, beaten and cut,
That crawls to the cool shadows of the pillars
To die.
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