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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PALS, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Take a hold now
Last Line: A locked-up story.
Subject(s): Funerals; Burials
First Line: Take a hold now
Last Line: A locked-up story.
Subject(s): Funerals; Burials
TAKE a hold now
On the silver handles here,
Six silver handles,
One for each of his old pals.
Take hold
And lift him down the stairs,
Put him on the rollers
Over the floor of the hearse.
Take him on the last haul,
To the cold straight house,
The level even house,
To the last house of all.
The dead say nothing
And the dead know much
And the dead hold under their tongues
A locked-up story.
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