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MASK by CARL SANDBURG

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First Line: FLING YOUR RED SCARF FASTER AND FASTER, DANCER
Last Line: SUMMER AND THE SUN COMMAND YOU.
Subject(s): DANCING & DANCERS;
FLING your red scarf faster and faster, dancer.
It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves, masses of green.
Your red scarf flashes across them calling and a-calling.
The silk and flare of it is a great soprano leading a chorus
Carried along in a rouse of voices reaching for the heart of the world.
Your toes are singing to meet the song of your arms:

Let the red scarf go swifter.
Summer and the sun command you.



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