#tbh i didn't realise these poems were written by the same author of red badge of courage until this intro but after getting TO the poems...

[jtownraindancer]

"...we make our journey alone, that few will ever know what we sought or understand what we have found."

Excerpt from "For truth was to me a breath, a wind, a shadow..." by Gerald D. McDonald, an introduction to Poems of Stephen Crane, 1964.