The Walt Whitman Archive
Published Works
Books by Whitman
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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.