| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Cornhuskers. 1918. |
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| 60. Testament |
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| I GIVE the undertakers permission to haul my body | |
| to the graveyard and to lay away all, the head, the | |
| feet, the hands, all: I know there is something left | |
| over they can not put away. | |
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| Let the nanny goats and the billy goats of the shanty | 5 |
| people eat the clover over my grave and if any yellow | |
| hair or any blue smoke of flowers is good enough to grow | |
| over me let the dirty-fisted children of the shanty | |
| people pick these flowers. | |
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| I have had my chance to live with the people who have | 10 |
| too much and the people who have too little and I chose | |
| one of the two and I have told no man why. | |
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