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Mascots

by Carl Sandburg, 1920

I will keep you and bring hands to hold you against a great hunger.
 I will run a spear in you for a great gladness to die with.
 I will stab you between the ribs of the left side with a great love worth remembering.

Published in Smoke and Steel
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