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1819–1892

“The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”

Walt Whitman

The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd, The countless ( nineteen-twentieths ) low and evil, crude and savage, The crazed, prisoners in jail, the horrible, rank, malignant, Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;

( What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme? ) Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons, The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.

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