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Day 207 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: "Two newspapermen, working for the Boston Post, took a poor poet around the town in a motor car, showing him Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill, Charlestown Jail, Harvard University. They made inquiries, the poet gave guarded replies, but was twice caught napping. They wrote notes for an interview. Then they fed the poet and sang this modern Boston ditty."
Day 207 of the American Songbag Stay-at-Home Series
Sandburg writes: "Two newspapermen, working for the Boston Post, took a poor poet around the town in a motor car, showing him Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill, Charlestown Jail, Harvard University. They made inquiries, the poet gave guarded replies, but was twice caught napping. They wrote notes for an interview. Then they fed the poet and sang this modern Boston ditty."
