I'll be damned. For 30 or 40 years I've off & on thought of looking up the lines, which I think I read back in the mid-40s. And all that time I've associated them with Sandburg.
More evidence (see Stephen Gould on this sort of thing) of the great undependability of even the most vivid memories. I wonder how many times over the years I would pull something out of memory and pass it on to students when the memory was in fact this bad!
Carrol
^^^^ CB: Actually, this incident is a demonstration of very accurate memory. You remembered the content of the poem perfectly.
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Max B. :
And don't knock golf, the only chance an ordinary schlub has to feel like a millionaire.
^^^^ CB: Links the rich and poor across the great gulf between them.
Casinos do something similar, maybe, with regular incomed people putting great sums at risk.