These Carols
These carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see,
For completion I dedicate to the Invisible World.
Leaves of Grass
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Leaves of Grass
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Chapter_3
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Leaves of Grass
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Inscriptions
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One’s-Self I Sing
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As I Ponder’d in Silence
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In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
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To Foreign Lands
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To a Historian
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To Thee Old Cause
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Eidólons
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For Him I Sing
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When I Read the Book
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Beginning My Studies
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Beginners
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To the States
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On Journeys Through the States
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To a Certain Cantatrice
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Me Imperturbe
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Savantism
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The Ship Starting
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I Hear America Singing
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What Place Is Besieged?
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Still Though the One I Sing
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Shut Not Your Doors
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Poets to Come
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To You
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Thou Reader
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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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To the Garden the World
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From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
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I Sing the Body Electric
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A Woman Waits for Me
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Spontaneous Me
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One Hour to Madness and Joy
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Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
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Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
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We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
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O Hymen! O Hymenee!
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I Am He That Aches with Love
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Native Moments
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Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
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I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
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Facing West from California’s Shores
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As Adam Early in the Morning
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Calamus
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In Paths Untrodden
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Scented Herbage of My Breast
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Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
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For You O Democracy
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These I Singing in Spring
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Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
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Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
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The Base of All Metaphysics
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Recorders Ages Hence
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When I Heard at the Close of the Day
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Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
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Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
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Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
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Trickle Drops
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City of Orgies
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Behold This Swarthy Face
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I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
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To a Stranger
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This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
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I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
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The Prairie-Grass Dividing
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When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
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We Two Boys Together Clinging
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A Promise to California
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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
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No Labor-Saving Machine
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A Glimpse
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A Leaf for Hand in Hand
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Earth, My Likeness
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I Dream’d in a Dream
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What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
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To the East and to the West
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Sometimes with One I Love
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To a Western Boy
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Fast-Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
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Among the Multitude
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O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
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That Shadow My Likeness
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Full of Life Now
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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
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Our Old Feuillage
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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
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Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
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Birds of Passage
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Song of the Universal
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Pioneers! O Pioneers!
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To You
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Chapter_263
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Myself and Mine
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Chapter_265
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With Antecedents
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A Broadway Pageant
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Sea-Drift
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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
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As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
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Tears
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To the Man-of-War-Bird
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Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
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On the Beach at Night
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The World Below the Brine
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On the Beach at Night Alone
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Song for All Seas, All Ships
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Patroling Barnegat
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After the Sea-Ship
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By the Roadside
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Chapter_293
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Chapter_294
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A Hand-Mirror
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Gods
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Germs
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Thoughts
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When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
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Perfections
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O Me! O Life!
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Chapter_302
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To a President
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I Sit and Look Out
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To Rich Givers
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The Dalliance of the Eagles
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Chapter_307
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A Farm Picture
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A Child’s Amaze
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The Runner
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Beautiful Women
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Mother and Babe
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Thought
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Visor’d
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Thought
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Gliding O’er All
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Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
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Thought
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To Old Age
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Locations and Times
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Offerings
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Chapter_322
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Drum-Taps
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First O Songs for a Prelude
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Eighteen Sixty-One
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Beat! Beat! Drums!
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From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
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Song of the Banner at Daybreak
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Chapter_329
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Chapter_330
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Chapter_331
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Chapter_332
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Chapter_333
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Chapter_334
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Chapter_335
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Chapter_336
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Chapter_337
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Chapter_338
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Chapter_339
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Chapter_340
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Chapter_341
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Chapter_342
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Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
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Virginia—The West
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City of Ships
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Chapter_349
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Chapter_350
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Chapter_351
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Cavalry Crossing a Ford
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Bivouac on a Mountain Side
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An Army Corps on the March
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By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
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Come Up from the Fields Father
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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
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A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
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A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
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As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
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Not the Pilot
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Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
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The Wound-Dresser
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Long, Too Long America
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Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
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Dirge for Two Veterans
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Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
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I Saw Old General at Bay
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The Artilleryman’s Vision
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Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
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Not Youth Pertains to Me
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Race of Veterans
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World Take Good Notice
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O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
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Look Down Fair Moon
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Reconciliation
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Chapter_383
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As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
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Delicate Cluster
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To a Certain Civilian
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Lo, Victress on the Peaks
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Chapter_388
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Adieu to a Soldier
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Turn O Libertad
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To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
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Memories of President Lincoln
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
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O Captain! My Captain!
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Chapter_411
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This Dust Was Once the Man
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By Blue Ontario’s Shore
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Reversals
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Autumn Rivulets
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As Consequent,etc.
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The Return of the Heroes
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There Was a Child Went Forth
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Old Ireland
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The City Dead-House
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This Compost
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To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
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Unnamed Lands
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Song of Prudence
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The Singer in the Prison
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Warble for Lilac-Time
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Vocalism
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To Him That Was Crucified
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You Felons on Trial in Courts
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Laws for Creations
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To a Common Prostitute
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I Was Looking a Long While
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Thought
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Miracles
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Sparkles from the Wheel
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To a Pupil
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Unfolded Out of the Folds
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What Am I After All
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Kosmos
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Others May Praise What They Like
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Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
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Tests
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The Torch
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Chapter_487
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The Ox-Tamer
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Chapter_489
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Wandering at Morn
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Chapter_491
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With All Thy Gifts
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My Picture-Gallery
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The Prairie States
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Proud Music of the Storm
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Passage to India
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Prayer of Columbus
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The Sleepers
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Transpositions
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To Think of Time
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Whispers of Heavenly Death
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Darest Thou Now O Soul
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Whispers of Heavenly Death
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Chanting the Square Deific
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Of Him I Love Day and Night
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Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
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As if a Phantom Caress’d Me
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Assurances
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Quicksand Years
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That Music Always Round Me
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What Ship Puzzled at Sea
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A Noiseless Patient Spider
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O Living Always, Always Dying
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To One Shortly to Die
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Night on the Prairies
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Thought
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The Last Invocation
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As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing
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Pensive and Faltering
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Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
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A Paumanok Picture
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From Noon to Starry Night
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Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling
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Faces
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The Mystic Trumpeter
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To a Locomotive in Winter
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O Magnet-South
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Mannahatta
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All Is Truth
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A Riddle Song
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Excelsior
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Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
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Thoughts
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Mediums
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Weave In, My Hardy Life
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Spain, 1873–74
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By Broad Potomac’s Shore
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Chapter_595
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Old War-Dreams
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Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
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Chapter_598
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Chapter_599
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As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
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A Clear Midnight
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Songs of Parting
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As the Time Draws Nigh
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Years of the Modern
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Ashes of Soldiers
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Thoughts
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Song at Sunset
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As at Thy Portals Also Death
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My Legacy
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Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
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Camps of Green
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Chapter_614
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As They Draw to a Close
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Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
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The Untold Want
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Portals
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These Carols
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Now Finalè to the Shore
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So Long!
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Mannahatta
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Mannahatta
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Paumanok
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From Montauk Point
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To Those Who’ve Fail’d
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A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
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The Bravest Soldiers
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A Font of Type
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As I Sit Writing Here
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My Canary Bird
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Queries to My Seventieth Year
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Chapter_633
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The First Dandelion
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America
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Memories
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To-day and Thee
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After the Dazzle of Day
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Chapter_639
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Out of May’s Shows Selected
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Halcyon Days
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Fancies at Navesink
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The Pilot in the Mist
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Had I the Choice
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You Tides with Ceaseless Swell
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Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning
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And Yet Not You Alone
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Proudly the Flood Comes In
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By That Long Scan of Waves
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Then Last of All
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Election Day, November, 1884
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With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
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Death of General Grant
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Chapter_654
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Washington’s Monument, February, 1885
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Chapter_656
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Broadway
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To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
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Old Salt Kossabone
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The Dead Tenor
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Chapter_661
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Chapter_662
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Life
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“Going Somewhere”
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Chapter_665
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True Conquerors
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The United States to Old World Critics
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The Calming Thought of All
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Thanks in Old Age
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Life and Death
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The Voice of the Rain
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Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
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Chapter_673
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Chapter_674
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Stronger Lessons
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A Prairie Sunset
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Twenty Years
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Chapter_678
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Twilight
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You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
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Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
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Chapter_682
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Chapter_683
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The Dismantled Ship
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Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
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An Evening Lull
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Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
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After the Supper and Talk
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Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!
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Chapter_690
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Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!
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Lingering Last Drops
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Good-Bye My Fancy
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On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
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My 71st Year
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Apparitions
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The Pallid Wreath
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An Ended Day
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Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
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To the Pending Year
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Shakespeare-Bacon’s Cipher
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Long, Long Hence
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Bravo, Paris Exposition!
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Chapter_704
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To the Sun-Set Breeze
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Old Chants
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Chapter_707
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Sounds of the Winter
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A Twilight Song
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When the Full-Grown Poet Came
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Chapter_711
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Chapter_712
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A Persian Lesson
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The Commonplace
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Chapter_715
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Chapter_716
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L.ofG.’s Purport
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The Unexpress’d
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Grand Is the Seen
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Unseen Buds
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Goodbye My Fancy!
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To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power
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To Soar in Freedom and in Fullness of Power
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Then Shall Perceive
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The Few Drops Known
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One Thought Ever at the Fore
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While Behind All Firm and Erect
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Chapter_728
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Chapter_729
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Supplement Hours
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Of Many a Smutch’d Deed Reminiscent
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Chapter_732
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Chapter_733
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Chapter_734
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A Thought of Columbus
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A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads
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Endnotes