American Poetry 1922/Upstream
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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 amen,
call deep thanks.
The strong men keep coming on.
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