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Looking, with Sandburg, "at six eggs."



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Look at six eggs
In a mockingbird's nest.

Listen to six mockingbirds
Flinging follies of O-be-joyful
Over the marshes and uplands.

Look at songs
Hidden in eggs.

-- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967),
from "Prairie" in CORNHUSKERS (1918)

by e.towhee in Six Words for the Planet on May 25, 2012 | add favorite | T-shirt

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