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Window

by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

Night from a railroad car window
Is a great, dark, soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light.




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  • Khalil Gibran
    Two Wishes XI
    by Khalil Gibran
    In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced the dwellings with his eyes.