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The Plowboy

by Carl Sandburg, 1916

After the last red sunset glimmer,
 Black on the line of a low hill rise,
 Formed into moving shadows, I saw
 A plowboy and two horses lined against the gray,
 Plowing in the dusk the last furrow.
 The turf had a gleam of brown,
 And smell of soil was in the air,
 And, cool and moist, a haze of April.

 I shall remember you long,
 Plowboy and horses against the sky in shadow.
 I shall remember you and the picture
 You made for me,
 Turning the turf in the dusk
 And haze of an April gloaming.

Published in Chicago Poems
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