There was a land where lived no violets. <br />A traveller at once demanded : "Why?" <br />The people told him: <br />"Once the violets of this place spoke thus: <br />'Until some woman freely gives her lover <br />To another woman <br />We will fight in bloody scuffle.'" <br />Sadly the people added: <br />"There are no violets here."<br /><br />Stephen Crane<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-was-a-land-where-lived-no-violets/
