SPEAK, sir, and be wise.
Speak choosing your words, sir, like an old woman over a bushel of apples.

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Poet: Carl Sandburg (Carl Sandburg Art)
Poem: 12. Basket
Volume: Smoke and Steel
- X. Panels
Year: Published/Written in 1922

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