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Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878 – 22 July 1967 / Illinois
Old Osawatomie
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JOHN BROWN'S body under the morning stars.
Six feet of dust under the morning stars.
And a panorama of war performs itself
Over the six-foot stage of circling armies.
Room for Gettysburg, Wilderness, Chickamauga,
On a six-foot stage of dust.
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