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Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

A Man Said to the Universe


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              1A man said to the universe:
              2"Sir, I exist!
              3"However," replied the universe,
              4"The fact has not created in me
              5"A sense of obligation."


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Stephen Crane, War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899).
First publication date: 1899
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/20

Composition date: 1894
Rhyme: unrhyming


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