Poem by Carl Sandburg

A Fence

Now the stone house on the lake front is finished and the
    workmen are beginning the fence.
The palings are made of iron bars with steel points that
    can stab the life out of any man who falls on them.
As a fence, it is a masterpiece, and will shut off the rabble
    and all vagabonds and hungry men and all wandering
    children looking for a place to play.
Passing through the bars and over the steel points will go
    nothing except Death and the Rain and To-morrow.

1. Chasers
2. Nigger
3. Timesweep
4. Dan
5. Ready to Kill

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