Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Stephen Crane
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"Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind." When our soldiers serve in the military they are trained to endure any hardship that they may encounter. While in the military they learn to move forward and continue without fear. The poem states that when the soldiers endure "wild hands," they do not weep. They do not cry or complain because this is their life and they know that their time in the military will be short.

Likewise, we cannot wept because we know we will see our loved ones soon even if we were separated by hundreds of miles and years. We also know that what awaits us beyond the gates is a life of continuous battle and death.

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More Quotes By Stephen Crane
  1. Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.
  2. When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.
  3. Tell her this And more, – That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.
  4. It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.
  5. A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
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