Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd RoadsSmall, Maynard, 1899 - 455 pages |
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Page 10
... ( dear mariners , for you I fold it here in every leaf ; ) Speed on my book ! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves , Chant on , sail on , bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every This sea , song for ...
... ( dear mariners , for you I fold it here in every leaf ; ) Speed on my book ! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves , Chant on , sail on , bear o'er the boundless blue from me to every This sea , song for ...
Page 15
... dear and dreadful they are to the earth , How they inure to themselves as much as to any- what a paradox appears their age , How people respond to them , yet know them not , How there is something relentless in their fate all times ...
... dear and dreadful they are to the earth , How they inure to themselves as much as to any- what a paradox appears their age , How people respond to them , yet know them not , How there is something relentless in their fate all times ...
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... Dear son do you think it is love ? Listen dear son listen America , daughter or son , -- It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess , and yet it satisfies , it is great , But there is something else very great , it makes the ...
... Dear son do you think it is love ? Listen dear son listen America , daughter or son , -- It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess , and yet it satisfies , it is great , But there is something else very great , it makes the ...
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... . It is not far , it is within reach , Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know , Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land . Shoulder your duds dear son , and I will mine SONG OF MYSELF . 73.
... . It is not far , it is within reach , Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know , Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land . Shoulder your duds dear son , and I will mine SONG OF MYSELF . 73.
Page 74
... dear son , and I will mine , and let us hasten forth , Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go . If you tire , give me both burdens , and rest the chuff of on my hip , And in due time you shall repay the same service ...
... dear son , and I will mine , and let us hasten forth , Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go . If you tire , give me both burdens , and rest the chuff of on my hip , And in due time you shall repay the same service ...
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