WASHINGTON MONUMENT BY NIGHT

Carl Sandburg

Solo 1: The stone goes straight.

A lean swimmer dives into night sky,

Into half-moon mist.

All: Two trees are coal black.

This is a great white ghost between.

It is cool to look at.

Strong men, strong women, come here.

Solo 1: Eight years is a long time

To be fighting all the time.

The republic is a dream.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

All: The wind bit hard at Valley Forge on Christmas,

Soldiers tied rags on their feet.

Red footprints wrote on the snow….

Solo 1: ….and stone shoots into stars here

……into half-moon mist tonight.

All: Tongues wrangled dark at a man.

Solo 1: He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone.

All: In a snowstorm, red holly berries, thoughts, he stood

alone.

Solo 1: Women said

Girls: He is lonely

……..fighting……..fighting……eight years………..

Solo 1: The name of an iron man goes over the world.

All: It takes a long time to forget an iron man.