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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Chicago Poems. 1916.

100. Pearl Fog

OPEN the door now.

Go roll up the collar of your coat

To walk in the changing scarf of mist.

Tell your sins here to the pearl fog

And know for once a deepening night

Strange as the half-meanings

Alurk in a wise woman’s mousey eyes.

Yes, tell your sins

And know how careless a pearl fog is

Of the laws you have broken.