The Road and the End
Carl Sandburg
1878 to 1967
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I shall foot it
Down the roadway in dusk,
Where shapes of hunger wander
And fugitives of pain go by
I shall foot
In the silence of the morning,
See the slur into dawn,
Hear the slow great winds
Where tall trees flank the way
And toward the sky
The broken boulders by the
Shall not commemorate my ruin
Regret shall the gravel under foot
I shall watch for
Slim birds swift of wing
That go where and ranks of thunder
Drive the wild processionals rain
The dust of the traveled road
touch my hands and face