Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
IV. Playthings of the Wind23. And This Will be All?
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And the gates will never open again?
And the dust and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songs of October moan, Why-oh, why-oh?
And the mountains will look to you
And you will wish you were a mountain
And the mountain will wish nothing at all?
This will be all?
The gates will never-never open again?
And the rusty door hinges and moaning October
And Why-oh, why-oh, in the moaning dry leaves,
This will be all?
And no singers, no mouths to know the songs?
You tell us a woman with a heartache tells you it is so?
This will be all?