| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Cornhuskers. 1918. |
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| I HAVE kept all, not one is thrown away, not one given to the ragman, not one thrust in a corner with a “P-f-f.” | |
| The red ones and the blue, the long ones in stripes, and each of the little black and white checkered ones. | |
| Keep them: I tell my heart: keep them another year, another ten years: they will be wanted again. | |
| They came once, they came easy, they came like a first white flurry of snow in late October, | |
| Like any sudden, presumptuous, beautiful thing, and they were cheap at the price, cheap like snow. | 5 |
| Here a red one and there a long one in yellow stripes, | |
| O there shall be no ragman have these yet a year, yet ten years. | |
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