Carl Sandburg: A spider will weave a web over discarded weapons

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts

American writers on peace and against war

Carl Sandburg: Selections on war

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Carl Sandburg
A.E.F.

Compare: Theocritus: May spiders spin their slender webs over weapons of war

There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.
The trigger and the range-finder, they too will be rusty.
And no hands will polish the gun, and it will hang on the wall.
Forefingers and thumbs will point casually toward it.
It will be spoken among half-forgotten, wished-to-be-forgotten things.
They will tell the spider: Go on, you’re doing good work.