I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. I tell you yester… - Carl Sandburg

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,
a sun dropped in the west.
I tell you there is nothing in the world
only an ocean of to-morrows,
a sky of to-morrows.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl August Sandburg (6 January 1878 –22 July 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist.

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The past is a bucket of ashes

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Blowing,Blowing
The gray slabs
Will lose you
the winds will flick you away
In a whiff

Let only the young come,
Says the sea.

Let them kiss my face
And hear me.
I am the last word
And I tell
Where storms and stars come from.

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