The Boy and the Doll by Carl Sandburg

AND I said to him
what have you done
with the blue doll
and the tin soldier
and the wooden horse
and the painted wagon
and the little boy
who was asleep
he said to me
they are all gone
they are all gone
they are all gone
they are all gone
they are all gone
they are all gone
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Carl August Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B.…

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