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IT IS MUCH by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: WOMEN OF NIGHT LIFE AMID THE LIGHTS
Last Line: IT IS MUCH TO BE WARM AND SURE OF TO-MORROW.
Subject(s): PROSTITUTION; HARLOTS; WHORES; BROTHELS;
WOMEN of night life amid the lights
Where the line of your full, round throats
Matches in gleam the glint of your eyes
And the ring of your heart-deep laughter:
It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.

Women of night life along the shadows,
Lean at your throats and skulking the walls,
Gaunt as a bitch worn to the bone,
Under the paint of your smiling faces:
It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.



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