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ALL DAY LONG by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALL DAY LONG IN FOG AND WIND
Last Line: AGAINST THE PALISADES OF ADAMANT.
Subject(s): SEA; OCEAN;

ALL day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.
My boy, he went to sea, long and long ago,
Curls of brown were slipping underneath his cap,
He looked at me from blue and steely eyes;
Natty, straight and true, he stepped away,
My boy, he went to sea.
All day long in fog and wind,
The waves have flung their beating crests
Against the palisades of adamant.



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