| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| IV. Playthings of the Wind |
| 23. And This Will be All? |
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| AND this will be all? | |
| And the gates will never open again? | |
| And the dust and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songs of October moan, Why-oh, why-oh? | |
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| And you will look to the mountains | |
| And the mountains will look to you | 5 |
| And you will wish you were a mountain | |
| And the mountain will wish nothing at all? | |
| This will be all? | |
| The gates will never-never open again? | |
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| The dust and the wind only | 10 |
| And the rusty door hinges and moaning October | |
| And Why-oh, why-oh, in the moaning dry leaves, | |
| This will be all? | |
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| Nothing in the air but songs | |
| And no singers, no mouths to know the songs? | 15 |
| You tell us a woman with a heartache tells you it is so? | |
| This will be all? | |
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