Upstream by Carl Sandburg
Published On Wednesday, January 05, 2011. Under: 1900s, Sandburg, Carl.
Upstream by Carl Sandburg
The strong men keep coming on.
They go down shot, hanged, sick, broken.
They live on, fighting, singing, lucky as plungers.
The strong men ... they keep coming on.
The strong mothers pulling them from a dark sea, a great prairie, a long mountain.
Call hallelujah, call ...






