Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UPSTREAM, by CARL SANDBURG


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First Line: The strong men keep coming on
Last Line: The strong men keep coming on.
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Men; Dead, The; Liberty


THE strong men keep coming on.
They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.

The strong men . . . they keep coming on.
The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long
mountain.

Call hallelujah, call amen, call deep thanks.
The strong men keep coming on.





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