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If I should cast off this tattered coat

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If I should cast off this tattered coat by Stephen Crane

 If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant --
What then?

Form: Free verse

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