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

63. Kin

BROTHER, I am fire

Surging under the ocean floor.

I shall never meet you, brother—

Not for years, anyhow;

Maybe thousands of years, brother.

Then I will warm you,

Hold you close, wrap you in circles,

Use you and change you—

Maybe thousands of years, brother.