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Carl Sandburg - A Coin

YOUR western heads here cast on money,
You are the two that fade away together,
Partners in the mist.

Lunging buffalo shoulder,
Lean Indian face,
We who come after where you are gone
Salute your forms on the new nickel.

You are
To us:
The past.

Runners
On the prairie:
Good-by.

Added: on April 25th, 2007 at 4:52 PM | Viewed: 4847 times | Comments and analysis of A Coin by Carl Sandburg Comments (2)


A Coin - Comments and Information

Poet: Carl Sandburg (Carl Sandburg Art)
Poem: 38. A Coin
Volume: Chicago Poems
- Chicago Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1912

Comment 2 of 2, added on March 21st, 2009 at 5:54 AM.

There must be a mistake here: "A Coin" couldn't have been published in 1912 as stated here because the nickel which it describes was first issued in 1913.

Grazyna from Poland
Comment 1 of 2, added on April 25th, 2007 at 4:52 PM.

i am doing a repot on carl sandburg an i am amased at how cool his poems are

,!,,!(^.^),!,,!

Avery from United States

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