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

V. Mist Forms

15. Helga

THE WISHES on this child’s mouth

Came like snow on marsh cranberries;

The tamarack kept something for her;

The wind is ready to help her shoes.

The north has loved her; she will be

A grandmother feeding geese on frosty

Mornings; she will understand

Early snow on the cranberries

Better and better then.