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Carl Sandburg - BronzesCarl Sandburg - Bronzes
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I   THE bronze General Grant riding a bronze horse in Linc-      oln Park   Shrivels in the sun by day when the motor cars whirr      by in long processions going somewhere to keep ap-     pointment for dinner and matineés and buying and      selling   Though in the dusk and nightfall when high waves are     piling   On the slabs of the promenade along the lake shore near      by   I have seen the general dare the combers come closer   And make to ride his bronze horse out into the hoofs     and guns of the storm. II    I cross Lincoln Park on a winter night when the snow     is falling.   Lincoln in bronze stands among the white lines of snow,     his bronze forehead meeting soft echoes of the new-     sies crying forty thousand men are dead along the     Yser, his bronze ears listening to the mumbled roar     of the city at his bronze feet.   A lithe Indian on a bronze pony, Shakespeare seated with     long legs in bronze, Garibaldi in a bronze cape, they     hold places in the cold, lonely snow to-night on their     pedestals and so they will hold them past midnight     and into the dawn.
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