Carl Sandburg found beauty in the simple America that surrounded him: the farms, industry, landscape, culture, and most importantly, the American people.
The Skyscraper Loves Night
By Carl Sandburg
ONE by one lights of a skyscraper fling their checkering cross work on the velvet gown of night.
I believe the skyscraper loves night as a woman and brings her playthings she asks for, brings her a velvet gown,
And loves the white of her shoulders hidden under the dark feel of it all.
The masonry of steel looks to the night for somebody it loves,
He is a little dizzy and almost dances … waiting … dark …
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