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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967).  Chicago Poems.  1916.
 
66. Troths
 
 
YELLOW dust on a bumble
    bee’s wing,
Grey lights in a woman’s
    asking eyes,
Red ruins in the changing        5
    sunset embers:
I take you and pile high
    the memories.
Death will break her claws
    on some I keep.        10
 

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