Leaves of grass (1872) | ||
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Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face;Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.
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Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose;
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
Leaves of grass (1872) | ||