JOHN BROWN’S body under the morning stars.
Six feet of dust under the morning stars.
And a panorama of war performs itself
Over the six-foot stage of circling armies.
Room for Gettysburg, Wilderness, Chickamauga,
On a six-foot stage of dust.

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Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 3. Old Osawatomie
Volume: Cornhuskers
- Shenandoah
Year: Published/Written in 1918
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