Tradition, thou art for suckling children

Tradition, thou art for suckling children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;
But no meat for men is in thee.
Then --
But, alas, we all are babes.

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Naturalist novelist and poet, author of The Red Badge of Courage, known for stark, imagistic verse.

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