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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.
  
TO THE GARDEN THE WORLD
  
FROM PENT-UP ACHING RIVERS.
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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.
  
A WOMAN WAITS FOR ME.
  
SPONTANEOUS ME.
  
ONE HOUR TO MADNESS AND JOY.
  
OUT OF THE ROLLING OCEAN THE CROWD.
  
AGES AND AGES RETURNING AT INTERVALS.
  
WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.
  
O HYMEN! O HYMENEE!
  
I AM HE THAT ACHES WITH LOVE.
  
NATIVE MOMENTS.
  
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
  
I HEARD YOU SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGAN.
  
FACING WEST FROM CALIFORNIA'S SHORES.
  
AS ADAM EARLY IN THE MORNING.
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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.

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THEN LAST OF ALL.

Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,
Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning:
Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.
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