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Repetitions

by Carl Sandburg, 1918

They are crying salt tears
 Over the beautiful beloved body
 Of Inez Milholland,
 Because they are glad she lived,
 Because she loved open-armed,
 Throwing love for a cheap thing
 Belonging to everybody—
 Cheap as sunlight,
 And morning air.

Published in Cornhuskers
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