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Sixteen Months

by Carl Sandburg, 1918

On the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams.
 It is a thin spiral of blue smoke,
 A morning campfire at a mountain lake.

 On the lips of the child Janet,
 Wisps of haze on ten miles of corn,
 Young light blue calls to young light gold of morning.

Published in Cornhuskers
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