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UPSTREAM by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE STRONG MEN KEEP COMING ON
Last Line: THE STRONG MEN KEEP COMING ON.
Subject(s): DEATH; FREEDOM; MEN; DEAD, THE; LIBERTY;

THE strong men keep coming on.
They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.

The strong men . . . they keep coming on.
The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long
mountain.

Call hallelujah, call amen, call deep thanks.
The strong men keep coming on.



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