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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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"THE ROUNDED CATALOGUE DIVINE COMPLETE."
[Sunday,–– – ––.–Went this forenoon to church. A college professor, Rev. Dr.——, gave us a fine sermon, during which I caught the above words; but the minister included in his "rounded catalogue" letter and spirit, only the esthetic things, and entirely ignored what I name in the following:]
The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd, |
The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and
savage,
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The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant, |
Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the disso-
lute;
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(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within
earth's orbic scheme?)
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Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons, |
The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot. |
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