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

IX. Haze

4. Potomac Town in February

THE BRIDGE says: Come across, try me; see how good I am.

The big rock in the river says: Look at me; learn how to stand up.

The white water says: I go on; around, under, over, I go on.

A kneeling, scraggly pine says: I am here yet; they nearly got me last year.

A sliver of moon slides by on a high wind calling: I know why; I’ll see you to-morrow; I’ll tell you everything to-morrow.