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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.
  
THOU ORB ALOFT FULL-DAZZLING.
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FACES.
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THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER.
  
TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER.
  
O MAGNET-SOUTH.
  
MANNAHATTA.
  
ALL IS TRUTH.
  
A RIDDLE SONG.
  
EXCELSIOR.
  
AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS.
  
THOUGHTS.
  
MEDIUMS.
  
WEAVE IN, MY HARDY LIFE.
  
SPAIN, 1873–74.
  
BY BROAD POTOMAC'S SHORE.
  
FROM FAR DAKOTA'S CAÑONS.
  
OLD WAR-DREAMS.
  
THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING.
  
WHAT BEST I SEE IN THEE.
  
SPIRIT THAT FORM'D THIS SCENE.
  
AS I WALK THESE BROAD MAJESTIC DAYS.
  
A CLEAR MIDNIGHT.
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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.

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THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING.

Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of stars!
Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death,
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For the prize I see at issue at last is the world,
All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;
Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest borne, to flaunt unrival'd?
O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
Walk supreme to the heavens mighty symbol—run up above them all,
Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!
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