Old Woman
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
Track 1
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And drowsily look on the walls and sidewalks
And life is gone from the wet and the welter—
Homeless
The headlight finds the way
And fixes its yellow rays in the cold slow rain,
Huddles for sleep in a doorway,
The headlight scoffs at the mist
Far-wandered waif of other days,
Against a pane I press my forehead
The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo
Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared
From building and battered paving-stone,
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