Harvest Sunset

Portrait of Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg 1878–1967
13Smoke and Steel

RED gold of pools, Sunset furrows six o’clock, And the farmer done in the fields And the cows in the barns with bulging udders.

Take the cows and the farmer, Take the barns and bulging udders. Leave the red gold of pools And sunset furrows six o’clock. The farmer’s wife is singing. The farmer’s boy is whistling. I wash my hands in red gold of pools.

From the bookSmoke and SteelFirst edition, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920

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