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

115. Child Moon

THE CHILD’S wonder

At the old moon

Comes back nightly.

She points her finger

To the far silent yellow thing

Shining through the branches

Filtering on the leaves a golden sand,

Crying with her little tongue, “See the moon!”

And in her bed fading to sleep

With babblings of the moon on her little mouth.