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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am… — Carl Sandburg

Poem

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg
1918
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Casualties of warWar
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Poem
Time
1918
Person
Carl Sandburg
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Current citation
Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.
Original citation
Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

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