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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Hammer

Carl Sandburg

From “Chicago Poems”

I HAVE seen

The old gods go

And the new gods come.

Day by day

And year by year

The idols fall

And the idols rise.

Today

I worship the hammer.