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Carl Sandburg

Between two hills
The old town stands.
The houses loom
And the roofs and trees
And the dusk and the dark,
The damp and the dew
     Are there.

The prayers are said
And the people rest
For sleep is there
And the touch of dreams
     Is over all.

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From Chicago Poems | Henry Holt & Company, 1916

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