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ON THE BREAKWATER by CARL SANDBURG

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First Line: ON THE BREAKWATER IN THE SUMMER DARK, A MAN AND A
Last Line: AND TWO ON THE BREAKWATER KEEP THEIR SILENCE, SHE ON HIS KNEE.
ON the breakwater in the summer dark, a man and a girl are sitting,
She across his knee and they are looking face into face
Talking to each other without words, singing rythms in silence to each other.

A funnel of white ranges the blue dusk from an outgoing boat,
Playing its searchlight, puzzled, abrupt, over a streak of green,
And two on the breakwater keep their silence, she on his knee.



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