Joy
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
Track 1
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Let a joy keep you
Reach out your
And take it when it runs by,
As Apache dancer
Clutches his woman
I have them
Live long and laugh loud,
Sent singing, singing,
Smashed to the heart
Under the
With a terrible love
Joy always,
everywhere—
Let joy kill you!
Keep away from little deaths.