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

V. Mist Forms

40. Valley Song

THE SUNSET swept

To the valley’s west, you remember.

The frost was on.

A star burnt blue.

We were warm, you remember,

And counted the rings on a moon.

The sunset swept

To the valley’s west

And was gone in a big dark door of stars.