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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Law Says

Carl Sandburg

From “Smoke Nights”

THE LAW says you and I belong to each other, George.

The law says you are mine and I am yours, George.

And there are a million miles of white snowstorms, a million furnaces of hell,

Between the chair where you sit and the chair where I sit.

The law says two strangers shall eat breakfast together after nights on the horn of an Arctic moon.