Evening Song
Sherwood Anderson
My song will rest while I rest. I struggle along. I’ll get back to the corn and the open fields.
Don’t fret, love, I’ll come out all right.
Back of Chicago the open fields. Were you ever there
Trains coming toward you out of the West. Streaks of light on the long gray plains?
Many a song aching to sing.
I’ve got a gray and ragged brother in my breast that’s a fact.
Back of Chicago the open fields long trains go west too in the silence.
Don’t fret, love. I’ll come out all right.