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Hydrangeas

by Carl Sandburg, 1916

Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas turn rust and go soon.
 Already mid September a line of brown runs over them.
 One sunset after another tracks the faces, the petals.
 Waiting, they look over the fence for what way they go.

Published in Chicago Poems
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