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1819–1892

Red Jacket ( From Aloft )

Walt Whitman

Upon this scene, this show, Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth, ( Nor in caprice alone — some grains of deepest meaning,) Haply, aloft, ( who knows? ) from distant sky-clouds’ blended shapes,

As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul, Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct — a towering human form, In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips, Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down.

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