Hydrangeas

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Hydrangeas by Carl Sandburg

 Dragoons, I tell you the white hydrangeas
 turn rust and go soon.
Already mid September a line of brown runs
 over them.
One sunset after another tracks the faces, the
 petals.
Waiting, they look over the fence for what
 way they go.

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