| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| VII. Passports |
| 3. Night Movement—New York |
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| IN the night, when the sea-winds take the city in their arms, | |
| And cool the loud streets that kept their dust noon and afternoon; | |
| In the night, when the sea-birds call to the lights of the city, | |
| The lights that cut on the skyline their name of a city; | |
| In the night, when the trains and wagons start from a long way off | 5 |
| For the city where the people ask bread and want letters; | |
| In the night the city lives too—the day is not all. | |
| In the night there are dancers dancing and singers singing, | |
| And the sailors and soldiers look for numbers on doors. | |
| In the night the sea-winds take the city in their arms. | 10 |
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