The Black Riders & Other Lines/I walked in a desert

I walked in a desert
by Stephen Crane

This poem was published in 1905 in the volume The Black Rider & Other Lines.

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I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
"Ah, God, take me from this place!"
A voice said, "It is no desert."
I cried, "Well, But --
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon."
A voice said, "It is no desert."