by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
There will be a rusty gun on the wall,...
Language: English
There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it. The trigger and the range-finder, they too will be rusty. And no hands will polish the gun, and it will hang on the wall. Forefingers and thumbs will point casually toward it. It will be spoken among half-forgotten, whished-to-be-forgotten things. They will tell the spider: Go on, you're doing good work.
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Text Authorship:
- by Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), "A. E. F.", appears in Smoke and Steel, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Michael Hennagin (1936 - 1993), no title, published 1968 [ satb chorus, four tenor and three baritones, piano, flute, 6 percussion, 2 slide projectors, electric tape, slides (R) ], from The Unknown [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-06-23
Line count: 9
Word count: 84