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Theme in Yellow

by Carl Sandburg, 1916

I spot the hills
 With yellow balls in autumn.
 I light the prairie cornfields
 Orange and tawny gold clusters
 And I am called pumpkins.
 On the last of October
 When dusk is fallen
 Children join hands
 And circle round me
 Singing ghost songs
 And love to the harvest moon;
 I am a jack-o’-lantern
 With terrible teeth
 And the children know
 I am fooling.

Published in Chicago Poems
Tags: halloween

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