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Under a Hat Rim

by Carl Sandburg, 1916

While the hum and the hurry
 Of passing footfalls
 Beat in my ear like the restless surf
 Of a wind-blown sea,
 A soul came to me
 Out of the look on a face.

 Eyes like a lake
 Where a storm-wind roams
 Caught me from under
 The rim of a hat.
     I thought of a midsea wreck
     and bruised fingers clinging
     to a broken state-room door.

Published in Chicago Poems
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