Leaves of Grass (1891-92)


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THE RUNNER.


ON a flat road runs the well-train'd runner,
He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
 
 
 
 
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