| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| VIII. Circles of Doors |
| 7. Curse of a Rich Polish Peasant on His Sister Who Ran Away With a Wild Man |
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| FELIKSOWA has gone again from our house and this time for good, I hope. | |
| She and her husband took with them the cow father gave them, and they sold it. | |
| She went like a swine, because she called neither on me, her brother, nor on her father, before leaving for those forests. | |
| That is where she ought to live, with bears, not with men. | |
| She was something of an ape before and there, with her wild husband, she became altogether an ape. | 5 |
| No honest person would have done as they did. | |
| Whose fault is it? And how much they have cursed me and their father! | |
| May God not punish them for it. They think only about money; they let the church go if they can only live fat on their money. | |
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