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Year Created: 1912
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Description: This poem, by poet Stephen Vincent Benét, won multiple awards for this poem in 1912.
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Mystery
Stephen Vincent Benét (age 15)
(Gold Badge. Silver Badge won September, 1912)
The giant building towered in the night Like a titanic hand released at last From under cumbering mountain ranges vast, Poised menacingly high, as if to smite A silent, sudden, deadly blow at Man I slunk along its base : then cowering, ran, Feeling the while it matter not how fast, Since it would strike me from behind at last.
Next morning as I passed among the hive Of careless people, to myself I said: “You do not fear. You’ve only seen it dead. I’ve seen the thing alive!”