Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
II. People Who Must5. Hats
H
what is under you?
I looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats:
Swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls,
Stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn.
Hats: tell me your high hopes.