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Sixteen Months

Sixteen Months

ON the lips of the child Janet float changing dreams.
It is a thin spiral of blue smoke,
A morning campfire at a mountain lake.

On the lips of the child Janet,
Wisps of haze on ten miles of corn,
Young light blue calls to young light gold of morning.



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Poem Sixteen Months - Carl Sandburg
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