Poem by Carl Sandburg

Primer Lesson

Look out how you use proud words.
When you let proud words go, 
                 it is not easy to call them back.
They wear long boots, hard boots; 
       they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling—
Look out how you use proud words.

1. Old-fashioned Requited Love
2. Subway
3. Baby Vamps
4. Kin
5. Hope Is a Tattered Flag

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