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Carl Sandburg - Population DriftsCarl Sandburg - Population Drifts
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New-mown hay smell and wind of the plain made her     a woman whose ribs had the power of the hills in     them and her hands were tough for work and there     was passion for life in her womb. She and her man crossed the ocean and the years that     marked their faces saw them haggling with landlords     and grocers while six children played on the stones     and prowled in the garbage cans. One child coughed its lungs away, two more have adenoids     and can neither talk nor run like their mother,     one is in jail, two have jobs in a box factory And as they fold the pasteboard, they wonder what the     wishing is and the wistful glory in them that flutters     faintly when the glimmer of spring comes on     the air or the green of summer turns brown: They do not know it is the new-mown hay smell calling     and the wind of the plain praying for them to come     back and take hold of life again with tough hands     and with passion.
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