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“Be Ready” by
Carl Sandburg
🇺🇸
(
6 Jan 1878
–
22 Jul 1967
)
Be land ready
for you shall go back to land.
Be sea ready
for you have been nine-tenths water
and the salt taste shall cling to your mouth.
Be sky ready
for air, air, has been so needful to you—
you shall go back, back to the sky.