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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE.
A carol closing sixty-nine—a résumé —a repetition, |
My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same, |
Of ye, O God, Life, Nature, Freedom, Poetry; |
Of you, my Land—your rivers, prairies, States—you, mottled
Flag I love,
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Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west,
your items all;
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Of me myself—the jocund heart yet beating in my breast, |
The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia
falling pall-like round me,
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The burning fires down in my sluggish blood not yet extinct, |
The undiminish'd faith—the groups of loving friends. |
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