A dead soldier was stretched with his face hidden in his ar… - Stephen Crane

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A dead soldier was stretched with his face hidden in his arm. Farther off there was a group of four or five corpses keeping mournful company. A hot sun had blazed upon the spot. In this place the youth felt that he was an invader. This forgotten part of the battleground was owned by the dead men, and he hurried, in the vague apprehension that one of the swollen forms would rise and tell him to begone.

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Stephen Crane (1 November 1871 – 5 June 1900) was an American novelist, poet and journalist.

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