ACCOMPLISHED FACTSBy Carl SandburgEVERY year Emily Dickinson sent one friendthe first arbutus bud in her garden.

In a last will and testament Andrew Jacksonremembered a friend with the gift of GeorgeWashington’s pocket spy-glass.

Napoleon too, in a last testament, mentioned a silverwatch taken from the bedroom of Frederick the Great,and passed along this trophy to a particular friend.

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Henry took a blood carnation from his coat lapeland handed it to a country girl starting work in abean bazaar, and scribbled: “Peach blossoms may ormay not stay pink in city dust.

”So it goes.

Some things we buy, some not.

Tom Jefferson was proud of his radishes, and Abe Lincoln blacked his own boots, and Bismarck called Berlin a wilderness of brick and newspapers.

So it goes.

There are accomplished facts.

Ride, ride, ride on in the great new blimps—Cross unheard-of oceans, circle the planet.

When you come back we may sit by five hollyhocks.

We might listen to boys fighting for marbles.

The grasshopper will look good to us.

So it goes….

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