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CRIMSON by CARL SANDBURG

Poet Analysis

First Line: CRIMSON IS THE SLOW SMOLDER OF THE CIGAR END I HOLD
Last Line: SHADOWS AND SMOKE AND WATCH MY THOUGHTS COME AND GO.)
Subject(s): SMOKING; TOBACCO; PIPES; CIGARS; CIGARETTES;
CRIMSON is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold,
Gray is the ash that stiffens and covers all silent the fire.
(A great man I know is dead and while he lies in his coffin a gone flame I sit here in cumbering
shadows and smoke and watch my thoughts come and go.)



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