How Much?

By Carl Sandburg 1878–1967 Carl Sandburg

How much do you love me, a million bushels?

Oh, a lot more than that, Oh, a lot more.

And tomorrow maybe only half a bushel?

Tomorrow maybe not even a half a bushel.

And is this your heart arithmetic?

This is the way the wind measures the weather.

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt Brace Iovanovich Inc., 1970)