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OLD OSAWATOMIE by CARL SANDBURG

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First Line: JOHN BROWN'S BODY UNDER THE MORNING STARS
Last Line: ON A SIX-FOOT STAGE OF DUST.
Subject(s): ABOLITIONISTS; AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859); SLAVERY; U.S. - HISTORY; ANTI-SLAVERY; SERFS;
JOHN BROWN'S body under the morning stars.
Six feet of dust under the morning stars.
And a panorama of war performs itself
Over the six-foot stage of circling armies.
Room for Gettysburg, Wilderness, Chickamauga,
On a six-foot stage of dust.




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