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Troths

by Carl Sandburg, 1916

Yellow dust on a bumble
     bee’s wing,
 Grey lights in a woman’s
     asking eyes,
 Red ruins in the changing
     sunset embers:
 I take you and pile high
     the memories.
 Death will break her claws
     on some I keep.

Published in Chicago Poems
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