and because it is my hearth

[jwgh]

I was trying to find the Stephen Crane poem 'In the Desert', so I did a google search for "because it is bitter". Google helpfully suggested:

Did you mean: "because it is better"

That would be a no.

I did find the poem, and I also found some comments by readers:

it dont understand what it means! it seems pretty wierd to me. but i wouldnt know anything about it.

and:

the creature he sees is a red sox fan,might even had been i, of course that was before 2003 world series in which i reply; the creature was from the evil empire, a yankee fan there after evermore