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The South Wind Say So

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

If the oriole calls like last year
 when the south wind sings in the oats,
 if the leaves climb and climb on a bean pole
 saying over a song learnt from the south wind,
 if the crickets send up the same old lessons
 found when the south wind keeps on coming,
 we will get by, we will keep on coming,
 we will get by, we will come along,
 we will fix our hearts over,
 the south wind says so.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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