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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PERSONALITY, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: You have loved forty women, but you have only one
Last Line: Of this.
First Line: You have loved forty women, but you have only one
Last Line: Of this.
[Musings of a Police Reporter in the Identification Bureau]
You have loved forty women, but you have only one thumb.
You have led a hundred secret lives, but you mark only one thumb.
You go round the world and fight in a thousand wars and win all the
world's honors, but when you come back home the print of
the one thumb your mother gave you is the same print of
the thumb you had in the old home when your mother kissed you
and said good-by.
Out of the whirling womb of time come millions of men and their
feet crowd the earth and they cut one anothers' throats for
room to stand and among them all are not two thumbs alike.
Somewhere is a Great God of Thumbs who can tell the inside story
of this.
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