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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Kin

Carl Sandburg

From “Days”

BROTHER, I am fire

Surging under the ocean floor.

I shall never meet you, brother—

Not for years, anyhow;

Maybe thousands of years, brother.

Then I will warm you,

Hold you close, wrap you in circles,

Use you and change you—

Maybe thousands of years, brother.