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 | Leaves of grass (1872) |  |
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......Thus, by blue Ontario's shore,While the winds fann'd me, and the waves came trooping toward me,
I thrill'd with the Power's pulsations—and the charm of my theme was upon me,
Till the tissues that held me, parted their ties upon me.
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And I saw the free Souls of poets;The loftiest bards of past ages strode before me,
Strange, large men, long unwaked, undisclosed, were disclosed to me.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |