| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Cornhuskers. 1918. |
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| 83. Drumnotes |
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| DAYS of the dead men, Danny. | |
| Drum for the dead, drum on your | |
| remembering heart. | |
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| Jaurès, a great love-heart of France, | |
| a slug of lead in the red valves. | 5 |
| Kitchener of Khartoum, tall, cold, proud, | |
| a shark’s mouthful. | |
| Franz Josef, the old man of forty haunted | |
| kingdoms, in a tomb with the Hapsburg | |
| fathers, moths eating a green uniform | 10 |
| to tatters, worms taking all and leaving | |
| only bones and gold buttons, bones and | |
| iron crosses. | |
| Jack London, Jim Riley, Verhaeren, riders to the republic of dreams. | |
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| Days of the dead, Danny. | 15 |
| Drum on your remembering heart. | |
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