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I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat the red of its clover the eyes of its women gave me a song and a	A
slogan	B
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Here the water went down the icebergs slid with gravel the gaps and the valleys hissed and the black loam came and the	A
yellow sandy loam	C
Here between the sheds of the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachians here now a morning star fixes a fire sign over the timber	D
claims and cow pastures the corn belt the cotton belt the cattle ranches	E
Here the gray geese go five hundred miles and back with a wind under their wings honking the cry for a new home	C
Here I know I will hanker after nothing so much as one more sunrise or a sky moon of fire doubled to a river moon of water	D
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The prairie sings to me in the forenoon and I know in the night I rest easy in the prairie arms on the prairie heart	F
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After the sunburn of the day	G
handling a pitchfork at a hayrack	H
after the eggs and biscuit and coffee	I
the pearl gray haystacks	J
in the gloaming	H
are cool prayers	K
to the harvest hands	L
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In the city among the walls the overland passenger train is choked and the pistons hiss and the wheels curse	M
On the prairie the overland flits on phantom wheels and the sky and the soil between them muffle the pistons and cheer the	A
wheels	N
I am here when the cities are gone	O
I am here before the cities come	P
I nourished the lonely men on horses	E
I will keep the laughing men who ride iron	Q
I am dust of men	R
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The running water babbled to the deer the cottontail the gopher	D
You came in wagons making streets and schools	S
Kin of the ax and rifle kin of the plow and horse	T
Singing Yankee Doodle Old Dan Tucker Turkey in the Straw	U
You in the coonskin cap at a log house door hearing a lone wolf howl	V
You at a sod house door reading the blizzards and chinooks let loose from Medicine Hat	W
I am dust of your dust as I am brother and mother	D
To the copper faces the worker in flint and clay	G
The singing women and their sons a thousand years ago	H
Marching single file the timber and the plain	X
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I hold the dust of these amid changing stars	Y
I last while old wars are fought while peace broods mother like	H
While new wars arise and the fresh killings of young men	R
I fed the boys who went to France in great dark days	Z
Appomattox is a beautiful word to me and so is Valley Forge and the Marne and Verdun	B
I who have seen the red births and the red deaths	A2
Of sons and daughters I take peace or war I say nothing and wait	B2
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Have you seen a red sunset drip over one of my cornfields the shore of night stars the wave lines of dawn up a wheat	C2
valley	I
Have you heard my threshing crews yelling in the chaff of a strawpile and the running wheat of the wagonboards my	D2
cornhuskers my harvest hands hauling crops singing dreams of women worlds horizons	E2
Rivers cut a path on flat lands	L
The mountains stand up	F2
The salt oceans press in	G2
And push on the coast lines	H2
The sun the wind bring rain	X
And I know what the rainbow writes across the east or west in a half circle	I2
A love letter pledge to come again	R
Towns on the Soo Line	J2
Towns on the Big Muddy	I
Laugh at each other for cubs	K2
And tease as children	B
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Omaha and Kansas City Minneapolis and St Paul sisters in a house together throwing slang growing up	F2
Towns in the Ozarks Dakota wheat towns Wichita Peoria Buffalo sisters throwing slang growing up	F2
Out of prairie brown grass crossed with a streamer of wigwam smoke out of a smoke pillar a blue promise out of	L2
wild ducks woven in greens and purples	M2
Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world Listen I am strong I know what I want	N2
Out of log houses and stumps canoes stripped from tree sides flatboats coaxed with an ax from the timber	D
claims in the years when the red and the white men met the houses and streets rose	O2
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A thousand red men cried and went away to new places for corn and women a million white men came and put up skyscrapers	P2
threw out rails and wires feelers to the salt sea now the smokestacks bite the skyline with stub teeth	Q2
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In an early year the call of a wild duck woven in greens and purples now the riveter's chatter the police patrol the	A
song whistle of the steamboat	R2
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To a man across a thousand years I offer a handshake	H
I say to him Brother make the story short for the stretch of a thousand years is short	S2
What brothers these in the dark	H
What eaves of skyscrapers against a smoke moon	T2
These chimneys shaking on the lumber shanties	U2
When the coal boats plow by on the river	D
The hunched shoulders of the grain elevators	P2
The flame sprockets of the sheet steel mills	V2
And the men in the rolling mills with their shirts off	W2
Playing their flesh arms against the twisting wrists of steel	X2
what brothers these	U2
in the dark	H
of a thousand years	Y2
A headlight searches a snowstorm	Z2
A funnel of white light shoots from over the pilot of the Pioneer Limited crossing Wisconsin	B
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In the morning hours in the dawn	O
The sun puts out the stars of the sky	D2
And the headlight of the Limited train	X
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The fireman waves his hand to a country school teacher on a bobsled	A3
A boy yellow hair red scarf and mittens on the bobsled in his lunch box a pork chop sandwich and a V of gooseberry pie	D2
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The horses fathom a snow to their knees	U2
Snow hats are on the rolling prairie hills	V2
The Mississippi bluffs wear snow hats	B3
Keep your hogs on changing corn and mashes of grain	X
O farmerman	X
Cram their insides till they waddle on short legs	C3
Under the drums of bellies hams of fat	W
Kill your hogs with a knife slit under the ear	D3
Hack them with cleavers	C3
Hang them with hooks in the hind legs	C3
A wagonload of radishes on a summer morning	H
Sprinkles of dew on the crimson purple balls	C3
The farmer on the seat dangles the reins on the rumps of dapple gray horses	C3
The farmer's daughter with a basket of eggs dreams of a new hat to wear to the county fair	E3
On the left and right hand side of the road	F3
Marching corn	X
I saw it knee high weeks ago now it is head high tassels of red silk creep at the ends of the ears	C3
I am the prairie mother of men waiting	H
They are mine the threshing crews eating beefsteak the farmboys driving steers to the railroad cattle pens	C3
They are mine the crowds of people at a Fourth of July basket picnic listening to a lawyer read the Declaration of	L2
Independence watching the pinwheels and Roman candles at night the young men and women two by two hunting the bypaths and	G3
kissing bridges	C3
They are mine the horses looking over a fence in the frost of late October saying good morning to the horses hauling wagons	C3
of rutabaga to market	H3
They are mine the old zigzag rail fences the new barb wire	D
The cornhuskers wear leather on their hands	C3
There is no let up to the wind	I3
Blue bandannas are knotted at the ruddy chins	C3
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Falltime and winter apples take on the smolder of the five o'clock November sunset falltime leaves bonfires stubble	I2
the old things go and the earth is grizzled	J3
The land and the people hold memories even among the anthills and the angleworms among the toads and woodroaches among	H
gravestone writings rubbed out by the rain they keep old things that never grow old	K3
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The frost loosens corn husks	C3
The Sun the rain the wind	I3
loosen corn husks	C3
The men and women are helpers	C3
They are all cornhuskers together	D
I see them late in the western evening	H
in a smoke red dust	L3
The phantom of a yellow rooster flaunting a scarlet comb on top of a dung pile crying hallelujah to the streaks of daylight	M3
The phantom of an old hunting dog nosing in	X

Carl Sandburg

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