BY day 
 tireless smokestacks 
 hungry smoky shanties hanging to the slopes 
 crooning: We get by, thats all.
By night 
 all lit up 
 fire-gold bars, fire-gold flues 
 and the shanties shaking in clumsy shadows 
 almost the hills shaking 
 all crooning: By God, were going to find out or know why.
Five Towns on the B. & O.
written byCarl Sandburg
© Carl Sandburg







