| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| I. Smoke Nights |
| 4. Pennsylvania |
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| I HAVE been in Pennsylvania, | |
| In the Monongahela and the Hocking Valleys. | |
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| In the blue Susquehanna | |
| On a Saturday morning | |
| I saw the mounted constabulary go by, | 5 |
| I saw boys playing marbles. | |
| Spring and the hills laughed. | |
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| And in places | |
| Along the Appalachian chain, | |
| I saw steel arms handling coal and iron, | 10 |
| And I saw the white-cauliflower faces | |
| Of miners’ wives waiting for the men to come home from the day’s work. | |
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| I made color studies in crimson and violet | |
| Over the dust and domes of culm at sunset. | |
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