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| 922. | Soup by Carl Sandburg | | I SAW a famous man eating soup.
I say he was lifting a fat broth
Into his mouth with a spoon.
His name was in the newspapers that day
Spelled out ... |
| 923. | A Sphinx by Carl Sandburg | | Close-mouthed you sat five thousand years and never
let out a whisper.
Processions came by, marchers, asking questions you
answered with grey eyes ... |
| 924. | Accomplished Facts by Carl Sandburg | | EVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friend
the first arbutus bud in her garden.
In a last will and testament Andrew Jackson
remembered a friend... |
| 925. | Chicago Poet by Carl Sandburg | | I SALUTED a nobody.
I saw him in a looking-glass.
He smiled—so did I.
He crumpled the skin on his forehead,
frowning—so did I.
Everything I... |
| 926. | Death Snips Proud Men by Carl Sandburg | | DEATH is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men and men die and then death laughs: Now you see ’em, now you don’t.
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| 927. | Fire Pages by Carl Sandburg | | I WILL read ashes for you, if you ask me.
I will look in the fire and tell you from the gray lashes
And out of the red and black tongues and stripes... |
| 929. | Picnic Boat by Carl Sandburg | | SUNDAY night and the park policemen tell each other it
is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake Michigan.
A big picnic boat comes home to Chicago fr... |
| 930. | Pods by Carl Sandburg | | PEA pods cling to stems.
Neponset, the village,
Clings to the Burlington railway main line.
Terrible midnight limiteds roar through
Hauling sleepe... |
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