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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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TO A HISTORIAN.
YOU who celebrate bygones, |
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life
that has exhibited itself,
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Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates,
rulers and priests,
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I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself
in his own rights,
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Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the
great pride of man in himself,)
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Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, |
I project the history of the future. |
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