| Carl Sandburg (18781967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| I. Smoke Nights |
| 2. Five Towns on the B. & O. |
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| BY day
tireless smokestacks
hungry smoky shanties hanging to the slopes
crooning: We get by, thats all. | |
| By night
all lit up
fire-gold bars, fire-gold flues
and the shanties shaking in clumsy shadows
almost the hills shaking
all crooning: By God, were going to find out or know why. | |
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