Among the Red Guns
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
After waking at dawn one morning when the wind sang low among dry leaves in an elm
Among the red guns,
In the hearts of soldiers
Running free blood
In the long, long campaign
Dreams go on
Among the leather saddles,
In the heads of soldiers
Heavy in the wracks and kills
Of all straight fighting
Dreams go on
Among the hot muzzles,
In the hands of soldiers
Brought from flesh-folds of women —
Soft amid the blood and crying—
In all your hearts and heads
Among the guns and saddles and muzzles
Dreams,
Dreams go on,
Out of the dead on their backs,
Broken and no use any more
Dreams of the way and the end go on
Carl Sandburg's Among the Red Guns
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