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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

V. Mist Forms

17. People With Proud Chins

I TELL them where the wind comes from,

Where the music goes when the fiddle is in the box.

Kids—I saw one with a proud chin, a sleepyhead,

And the moonline creeping white on her pillow.

I have seen their heads in the starlight

And their proud chins marching in a mist of stars.

They are the only people I never lie to.

I give them honest answers,

Answers shrewd as the circles of white on brown chestnuts.