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

V. Mist Forms

47. Spanish

FASTEN black eyes on me.

I ask nothing of you under the peach trees,

Fasten your black eyes in my gray with the spear of a storm.

The air under the peach blossoms is a haze of pink.