Smoke of a city sunset skyline,

Smoke of a country dusk horizon—

They cross on the sky and count our years.

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Smoke of a brick-red dust

Winds on a spiral

Out of the stacks

For a hidden and glimpsing moon.

This, said the bar-iron shed to the blooming mill,

This is the slang of coal and steel.