A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"
Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was an American novelist and poet whose "The Red Badge of Courage" revolutionized war fiction. His free-verse poetry—influenced by Symbolism—collected in "The Black Riders" (1895) and "War Is Kind" (1899) anticipated modernist poetry.
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