Poem A Day

"And the sins of the fathers shall be"

by Stephen Crane

"And the sins of the fathers shall be

visited upon the heads of the children,

even unto the third and fourth

generation of them that hate me."

Well, then I hate thee, unrighteous picture;

Wicked image, I hate thee;

So, strike with thy vengeance

The heads of those little men

Who come blindly.

It will be a brave thing.

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