GRASS

Carl Sandburg

Solo 1: Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Shovel them under and let me work—

I am the grass; I cover all.

All: And pile them high at Gettysburg

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.

Solo 1: Shovel them under and let me work.

All: Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor

What place is this?

Where are we now?

I am the grass.

All: Let me work.