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They Ask Each Other Where They Came From

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

Am I the river your white birds fly over?
 Are you the green valley my silver channels roam?
 The two of us a bowl of blue sky day time and a bowl of red stars night time?
   Who picked you
   out of the first great whirl of nothings
   and threw you here?

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