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Throw Roses

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

Throw roses on the sea where the dead went down.
   The roses speak to the sea,
   And the sea to the dead.
 Throw roses, O lovers—
   Let the leaves wash on the salt in the sun.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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