A slant of sun on dull brown walls, <br />A forgotten sky of bashful blue. <br /> <br />Toward God a mighty hymn, <br />A song of collisions and cries, <br />Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells, <br />Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans, <br />Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair, <br />The unknown appeals of brutes, <br />The chanting of flowers, <br />The screams of cut trees, <br />The senseless babble of hens and wise men -- <br />A cluttered incoherency that says at the stars: <br />"O God, save us!"<br /><br />Stephen Crane<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-slant-of-sun-on-dull-brown-walls-2/
