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

IV. Playthings of the Wind

2. Broken Tabernacles

HAVE I broken the smaller tabernacles, O Lord?

And in the destruction of these set up the greater and massive, the everlasting tabernacles?

I know nothing today, what I have done and why, O Lord, only I have broken and broken tabernacles.

They were beautiful in a way, these tabernacles torn down by strong hands swearing—

They were beautiful—why did the hypocrites carve their own names on the corner-stones? why did the hypocrites keep on singing their own names in their long noses every Sunday in these tabernacles?

Who lays any blame here among the split cornerstones?


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