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PLOWBOY by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: AFTER THE LAST RED SUNSET GLIMMER
Last Line: AND HAZE OF AN APRIL GLOAMING.
Subject(s): PLOWING & PLOWMEN;

AFTER the last red sunset glimmer,
Black on the line of a low hill rise,
Formed into moving shadows, I saw
A plowboy and two horses lined against the gray,
Plowing in the dusk the last furrow.
The turf had a gleam of brown,
And smell of soil was in the air,
And, cool and moist, a haze of April.

I shall remember you long,
Plowboy and horses against the sky in shadow.
I shall remember you and the picture
You made for me,
Turning the turf in the dusk
And haze of an April gloaming.



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