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

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13. Fire Pages

I WILL read ashes for you, if you ask me.

I will look in the fire and tell you from the gray lashes

And out of the red and black tongues and stripes,

I will tell how fire comes

And how fire runs far as the sea.