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People With Proud Chins

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

I tell them where the wind comes from,
 Where the music goes when the fiddle is in the box.

 Kids—I saw one with a proud chin, a sleepyhead,
 And the moonline creeping white on her pillow.
   I have seen their heads in the starlight
   And their proud chins marching in a mist of stars.

 They are the only people I never lie to.
   I give them honest answers,
 Answers shrewd as the circles of white on brown chestnuts.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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