Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
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on the clean steel sky and sends it to me.
sends it cross country a thousand miles.
Napoleon memoirs … a rag handler,
a head of dreams walks in a sheet of
mist … the palace panels shut in nobodies
drinking nothings out of silver
helmets … in the end we all come to a
rock island and the hold of the sea-walls.