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1819–1892

Still Though the One I Sing

Walt Whitman

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring, Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,

A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the intellect, But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.

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Still Though the One I Sing · Walt Whitman · Poetry Cove