The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will…

The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

Carl Sandburg

1936

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Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 107.

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