Poetry in Motion
New York
Tongue of Wood
Stephen Crane
Tongue of Wood
There was a man with tongue of wood
Who essayed to sing,
And in truth it was lamentable.
But there was one who heard
The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood
And knew what the man
Wished to sing,
And with that the singer was content.
From War is Kind and Other Lines.
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