| Carl Sandburg (1878–1967). Smoke and Steel. 1922. |
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| II. People Who Must |
| 27. Man, the Man-Hunter |
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| I SAW Man, the man-hunter, | |
| Hunting with a torch in one hand | |
| And a kerosene can in the other, | |
| Hunting with guns, ropes, shackles. | |
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| I listened | 5 |
| And the high cry rang, | |
| The high cry of Man, the man-hunter: | |
| We’ll get you yet, you sbxyzch! | |
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| I listened later. | |
| The high cry rang: | 10 |
| Kill him! kill him! the sbxyzch! | |
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| In the morning the sun saw | |
| Two butts of something, a smoking rump, | |
| And a warning in charred wood: | |
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| Well, we got him, | 15 |
| the sbxyzch. | |
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