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1819–1892

From Montauk Point

Walt Whitman

I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak, Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, ( nothing but sea and sky,) The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance, The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps — that inbound urge and urge of waves,

Seeking the shores forever.

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