| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| V. Mist Forms |
| 23. Half Moon in a High Wind |
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| MONEY is nothing now, even if I had it, | |
| O mooney moon, yellow half moon, | |
| Up over the green pines and gray elms, | |
| Up in the new blue. | |
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| Streel, streel, | 5 |
| White lacey mist sheets of cloud, | |
| Streel in the blowing of the wind, | |
| Streel over the blue-and-moon sky, | |
| Yellow gold half moon. It is light | |
| On the snow; it is dark on the snow, | 10 |
| Streel, O lacey thin sheets, up in the new blue. | |
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| Come down, stay there, move on. | |
| I want you, I don’t, keep all. | |
| There is no song to your singing. | |
| I am hit deep, you drive far, | 15 |
| O mooney yellow half moon, | |
| Steady, steady; or will you tip over? | |
| Or will the wind and the streeling | |
| Thin sheets only pass and move on | |
| And leave you alone and lovely? | 20 |
| I want you, I don’t, come down, | |
| Stay there, move on. | |
| Money is nothing now, even if I had it. | |
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