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“Lost” by
Carl Sandburg
🇺🇸
(
6 Jan 1878
–
22 Jul 1967
)
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor’s breast
And the harbor’s eyes.