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PRAIRIE WATERS BY NIGHT by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: CHATTER OF BIRDS TWO BY TWO RAISES A NIGHT
Last Line: RUNNING WATER.
CHATTER of birds two by two raises a night song joining a litany of
running water -- sheer waters showing the russet of old stones
remembering many rains.

And the long willows drowse on the shoulders of the running water, and
sleep from much music; joined songs of day-end, feathery throats and
stony waters, in a choir chanting new psalms.

It is too much for the long willows when low laughter of a red moon
comes down; and the willows drowse and sleep on the shoulders of the
running water.




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