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I too lived—Brooklyn, of ample hills, was mine;I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan Island, and bathed in the waters around it;
I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
In the day, among crowds of people, sometimes they came upon me,
In my walks home late at night, or as I lay in my bed, they came upon me.
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I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution;I too had receiv'd identity by my Body;
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