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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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THE PILOT IN THE MIST.
Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminis-
cence,
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A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why, |
Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;)* |
Again 'tis just at morning—a heavy haze contends with day-
break,
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Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me—I press through
foam-dash'd rocks that almost touch me,
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Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman |
Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand. |
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