• 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.’

    Stephen Crane: 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.’
    Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America