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Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - This day before dawn I ascended a hill
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010994
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Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven
And I said to my spirit, 'When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure of everything in them shall we be filled and satisfied?
And my spirit said 'No, we level that life to pass and continue beyond
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me
Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns
Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me
Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill
Scattering it freely forever