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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Blue Ridge

BORN a million years ago you stay here a million years...
watching the women come and live and be laid away...
you and they thin-gray thin-dusk lovely.
So it goes: either the early morning lights are lovely or the early morning star.
I am glad I have seen racehorses, women, mountains.

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