What of the Athenian last year on whose bosoma committee hung a medal to say to the worldhere is a champion heavyweight poet?He stood on a two-masted schoonerand flung his medal far out on the sea bosom.“And why not?Has anybody ever given the ocean a medal?Who of the poets equals the music of the sea?And where is a symbol of the peopleunless it is the sea?
-Carl Sandburg
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