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/no-violets/
