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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.

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16. Baby Toes

THERE is a blue star, Janet,

Fifteen years’ ride from us,

If we ride a hundred miles an hour.

There is a white star, Janet,

Forty years’ ride from us,

If we ride a hundred miles an hour.

Shall we ride

To the blue star

Or the white star?