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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967).  Chicago Poems.  1916.
 
63. Kin
 
 
  BROTHER, I am fire
Surging under the ocean floor.
I shall never meet you, brother—
Not for years, anyhow;
Maybe thousands of years, brother.        5
Then I will warm you,
Hold you close, wrap you in circles,
Use you and change you—
Maybe thousands of years, brother.
 

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