Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it
is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake Michigan.
A big picnic boat comes home to Chicago from the peach
farms of Saugatuck.
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Here, summertime evening changes from black and bleak to light and fun - such delight there is in the picnic boat filled with color, decoration, music, joy, and dancing. This poem is full of memories of countryside. (Several Sandburg poems celebrate the joy of Polish gatherings and celebrations.)
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Here, summertime evening changes from black and bleak to light and fun - such delight there is in the picnic boat filled with color, decoration, music, joy, and dancing. This poem is full of memories of countryside. (Several Sandburg poems celebrate the joy of Polish gatherings and celebrations.)