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

V. Mist Forms

39. Blue Ridge

BORN a million years ago you stay here a million years … watching the women come and live and be laid away … you and they thin-gray thin-dusk lovely.

So it goes: either the early morning lights are lovely or the early morning star.

I am glad I have seen racehorses, women, mountains.