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BACK YARD by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHINE ON, O MOON OF SUMMER
Last Line: SHAKE OUT MORE AND MORE SILVER CHANGES.
Subject(s): MOON;

SHINE on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain to-night.

An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next month; to-night they are throwing you
kisses.

An old man next door is dreaming over a sheen that sits in a cherry tree in his back yard.

The clocks say I must go -- I stay here sitting on the back porch drinking white thoughts you rain
down.

Shine on, O moon,
Shake out more and more silver changes.



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