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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEY WILL SAY, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this
Last Line: For a little handful of pay on a few saturday nights.
First Line: Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this
Last Line: For a little handful of pay on a few saturday nights.
Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this:
You took little children away from the sun and the dew,
And the glimmers that played in the grass under the great sky,
And the reckless rain; you put them between walls
To work, broken and smothered, for bread and wages,
To eat dust in their throats and die empty-hearted
For a little handful of pay on a few Saturday nights.
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