The Black Riders and Other Lines: XLVII (idea)

"Think as I think," said a man,
"Or you are abominably wicked;
You are a toad."

And after I had thought of it,
I said, "I will, then, be a toad."

Stephen Crane,
1905

The Black Riders and Other Lines: XLVI || The Black Riders and Other Lines: XLVIII