THERE is a blue star, Janet,
Fifteen years’ ride from us,
If we ride a hundred miles an hour.
  
There is a white star, Janet,
Forty years’ ride from us,
If we ride a hundred miles an hour.
  
Shall we ride
To the blue star
Or the white star?

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Poet: Carl Sandburg
Poem: 16. Baby Toes
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- V. Mist Forms
Year: Published/Written in 1922
Poem of the Day: Dec 1 2005
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