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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: Mannahatta

My city’s fit and noble name resumed,
Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,
A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming,
going, hurrying sea waves.

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Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: Orange Buds by Mail from Florida

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Book XXIV. Autumn Rivulets: Vocalism

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Book XIX. Sea-Drift: After the Sea-Ship

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PRIMEVAL my love for the woman… O bride! O wife! more resistless,… thought of you! Then separate, as disembodied, the… The ethereal, the last athletic re…
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