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

V. Mist Forms

22. Peach Blossoms

WHAT cry of peach blossoms

let loose on the air today

I heard with my face thrown

in the pink-white of it all?

in the red whisper of it all?

What man I heard saying:

Christ, these are beautiful!

And Christ and Christ was in his mouth,

over these peach blossoms?