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Leaves of Grass :[1891]

Including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy...2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

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INSCRIPTIONS.
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STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
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SONG OF MYSELF.
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
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CALAMUS.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
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SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
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CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
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SONG OF THE ANSWERER.
  
OUR OLD FEUILLAGE.
  
A SONG OF JOYS.
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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
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SONG OF THE EXPOSITION.
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SONG OF THE REDWOOD-TREE.
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A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS.
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A SONG OF THE ROLLING EARTH.
  
YOUTH, DAY, OLD AGE AND NIGHT.
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BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
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A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
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SEA-DRIFT.
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BY THE ROADSIDE.
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DRUM-TAPS.
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MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
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BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE.
  
REVERSALS.
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AUTUMN RIVULETS.
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PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM.
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PASSAGE TO INDIA.
  
PRAYER OF COLUMBUS.
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THE SLEEPERS.
  
TRANSPOSITIONS.
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TO THINK OF TIME.
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WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH.
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THOU MOTHER WITH THY EQUAL BROOD.
  
A PAUMANOK PICTURE.
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FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT.
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SONGS OF PARTING.
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ANNEX TO PRECEDING PAGES. Sands at Seventy.
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2D ANNEX. Good-Bye my Fancy.
  
SAIL OUT FOR GOOD, EIDÓLON YACHT!
  
LINGERING LAST DROPS.
  
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY.
  
ON, ON THE SAME, YE JOCUND TWAIN!
  
MY 71st YEAR.
  
APPARITIONS.
  
THE PALLID WREATH.
  
AN ENDED DAY.
  
OLD AGE'S SHIP & CRAFTY DEATH'S.
  
TO THE PENDING YEAR.
  
SHAKSPERE-BACON'S CIPHER.
  
LONG, LONG HENCE.
  
BRAVO, PARIS EXPOSITION!
  
INTERPOLATION SOUNDS.
  
TO THE SUN-SET BREEZE.
  
OLD CHANTS.
  
A CHRISTMAS GREETING.
  
SOUNDS OF THE WINTER.
  
A TWILIGHT SONG.
  
WHEN THE FULL-GROWN POET CAME.
  
OSCEOLA.
  
A VOICE FROM DEATH.
  
A PERSIAN LESSON.
  
THE COMMONPLACE.
  
“THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE”
  
MIRAGES.
  
L. OF G.'S PURPORT.
  
THE UNEXPRESS'D.
  
GRAND IS THE SEEN.
  
UNSEEN BUDS.
  
GOOD-BYE MY FANCY!

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Come nearer bodiless one, haply in thee resounds
Some dead composer, haply thy pensive life
Was fill'd with aspirations high, unform'd ideals,
Waves, oceans musical, chaotically surging,
That now ecstatic ghost, close to me bending, thy cornet echoing, pealing,
Gives out to no one's ears but mine, but freely gives to mine,
That I may thee translate.
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