Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922.
IV. Playthings of the Wind16. Bronzes
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Kept by children in China
Three thousand years
Since their fathers
Took fire and molds and hammers
And made these.
And other dynasties,
Out, gone, reckoned in ciphers,
Dynasties dressed up
In old gold and old yellow—
They saw these.
Of three thousand years
Turn, turn, turn on.
(One will be enough)
Handle these bronzes
And mention the dynasties
And pass them along.