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Cornhuskers
Better the blue silence and the gray west,

The autumn mist on the river,

And not any hate and not any love,

And not anything at all of the keen and the deep:

Only the peace of a dog head on a barn floor,

And the new corn shoveled in bushels

And the pumpkins brought from the corn rows.

Umber lights of the dark.

Umber lanterns of the loam dark.


Here a dog head dreams.

Not any hate, not any love.

Not anything but dreams.

Brother of dusk and umber.