The Harbor
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
Passing through huddled and ugly walls
By doorways where women
Looked from their hunger-deep eyes.
Haunted with shadows of hunger-hands.
Out from the huddled and ugly walls,
I came sudden, at the city's edge,
On a blue burst of lake.
Long lake waves breaking under the sun
On a spray-flung curve of shore.
And a fluttering storm of gulls,
Masses of great gray wings
And flying white bellies
Veering and wheeling free in the open.
Carl Sandburg's The Harbor
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