A Sphinx

Carl Sandburg

1878 to 1967

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I know the answers you hold.
Close-mouthed
you answered with gray eyes
asking questions
shut lips never talking
and never let out a whisper
Processions came by,
and I keep my questions:
you know
Not one croak of anything
from your cat crouch of ages
I am one of those who know all you know
never blinking,
marchers,
has come
you sat five thousand years

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