POEM

Lost

by Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg
Desolate and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor's breast
And the harbor's eyes.

This poem originally appeared in the March 1914 issue of Poetry.

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