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Carl Sandburg

Five Towns on the B. & O.

BY day... tireless smokestacks... hungry smoky shanties hanging to the slopes... crooning: We get by, that’s all.
By night... all lit up... fire-gold bars, fire-gold flues... and the shanties shaking in clumsy shadows... almost the hills shaking... all crooning: By God, we’re going to find out or know why.

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Other works by Carl Sandburg...
Child Margaret

THE CHILD Margaret begins to w… All the numbers come well-born, sh… Both 1 and 7 are straightforward,… The 6 and 9 salute as dancing sist… All the numbers are well-born, onl…
Wilderness

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs… tongue for raw meat. . . and the h… this wolf because the wilderness g… will not let it go. There is a fox in me. . . a silver…
Loam

In the loam we sleep, In the cool moist loam, To the lull of years that pass And the break of stars, From the loam, then,
The Red Son

I LOVE your faces I saw the man… I drank your milk and filled my mo… With your home talk, slept in your… And was one of you. But a fire burns in my heart.
Muckers

TWENTY men stand watching the m… Stabbing the sides of the ditch Where clay gleams yellow, Driving the blades of their shovel… Deeper and deeper for the new gas…
Basket

speak, sir, and be wise. Speak choosing your words, sir, li…
She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him

She held herself a deep pool for h… And the shadows crying for him He gathered himself in many dark w… And the shadows crying for her They took each other in shadow mee…
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The Sins of Kalamazoo

THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neit… The sins of Kalamazoo are a convi… And the people who sin the sins of… They run to drabs and grays-and so… Yes, Kalamazoo is a spot on the m…
White Shoulders

YOUR white shoulders I remember And your shrug of laughter. Low laughter Shaken slow
Weeds

FROM the time of the early radis… To the time of the standing corn Sleepy Henry Hackerman hoes. There are laws in the village agai… The law says a weed is wrong and s…
Evening Waterfall

What is the name you called me?— And why did you go so soon? The crows lift their caws on the w… And the wind changed and was lonel… The warblers cry thier sleepy-song…
Manufactured Gods

THEY put up big wooden gods. Then they burned the big wooden go… And put up brass gods and Changing their minds suddenly Knocked down the brass gods and pu…
Gargoyle

I SAW a mouth jeering. A smile o… A fist hit the mouth: knuckles of… The fist hit the mouth over and ov… And I saw the more the fist pound…
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Remorse

THE HORSE’S name was Remorse. There were people said, ‘Gee, wha… And they were Edgar Allan Poe bu… They called him Remorse. When he was a gelding
River Roads

Let the crows go by hawking their… They have been swimming in midnigh… Let 'em hawk their caw and caw. Let the woodpecker drum and drum o… He has been swimming in red and bl…



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