Four Preludes On Playthings Of The Wind Poem Rhyme Scheme

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'The past is a bucket of ashes '	A
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THE WOMAN named To morrow	B
sits with a hairpin in her teeth	C
and takes her time	D
and does her hair the way she wants it	E
and fastens at last the last braid and coil	F
and puts the hairpin where it belongs	G
and turns and drawls Well what of it	E
My grandmother Yesterday is gone	H
What of it Let the dead be dead	I
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The doors were cedar	J
and the panels strips of gold	K
and the girls were golden girls	L
and the panels read and the girls chanted	M
We are the greatest city	N
the greatest nation	O
nothing like us ever was	P
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The doors are twisted on broken hinges	Q
Sheets of rain swish through on the wind	R
where the golden girls ran and the panels read	I
We are the greatest city	N
the greatest nation	O
nothing like us ever was	P
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It has happened before	S
Strong men put up a city and got	T
a nation together	J
And paid singers to sing and women	O
to warble We are the greatest city	N
the greatest nation	O
nothing like us ever was	P
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And while the singers sang	U
and the strong men listened	V
and paid the singers well	W
and felt good about it all	X
there were rats and lizards who listened	V
and the only listeners left now	Y
are the rats and the lizards	Z
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And there are black crows	A2
crying 'Caw caw '	-
bringing mud and sticks	B2
building a nest	C2
over the words carved	D2
on the doors where the panels were cedar	J
and the strips on the panels were gold	K
and the golden girls came singing	E2
We are the greatest city	N
the greatest nation	O
nothing like us ever was	P
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The only singers now are crows crying 'Caw caw '	-
And the sheets of rain whine in the wind and doorways	F2
And the only listeners now are the rats and the lizards	Z
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The feet of the rats	G2
scribble on the door sills	H2
the hieroglyphs of the rat footprints	I2
chatter the pedigrees of the rats	G2
and babble of the blood	J2
and gabble of the breed	K2
of the grandfathers and the great grandfathers	L2
of the rats	G2
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And the wind shifts	M2
and the dust on a door sill shifts	M2
and even the writing of the rat footprints	I2
tells us nothing nothing at all	X
about the greatest city the greatest nation	O
where the strong men listened	V
and the women warbled Nothing like us ever was	P

Carl Sandburg

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