The Road and the End
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
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The dust of the traveled road
See the night slur into dawn,
Slim birds swift of wing
Shall not commemorate my ruin
Hear the slow great winds arise
I shall foot it
That go where wind and ranks of thunder
Shall touch my hands and face
I shall foot it
Where tall trees flank the way
Where shapes of hunger wander
Regret shall be the gravel under foot
And the fugitives of pain go by
Down the roadway in the dusk,
In the silence of the morning,
I shall watch for
Drive the wild processionals of rain
The broken boulders by the road
And shoulder toward the sky
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