Mill-Doors
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
Track 1
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You never come back
I say good-by when I you going in the doors.
The hopeless open that call and wait
And take you then for— how many cents a day?
How many cents the sleepy eyes and fingers?
I say good-by I know they tap your wrists.
In the dark, in the silence, day by day.
And all blood of you drop by drop,
And you old before you are young
You never come