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

102. Follies

SHAKEN,

The blossoms of lilac,

And shattered,

The atoms of purple.

Green dip the leaves,

Darker the bark,

Longer the shadows.

Sheer lines of poplar

Shimmer with masses of silver

And down in a garden old with years

And broken walls of ruin and story,

Roses rise with red rain-memories.

May!

In the open world

The sun comes and finds your face,

Remembering all.