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



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First Line: I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation
Last Line: "I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: ""omaha."
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips


I AM riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains of the nation.
Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air go fifteen all-steel coaches holding a
thousand people.
(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and
sleepers shall pass to ashes.)
I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he answers: "Omaha."





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