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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 136 of 382 · By the Roadside

Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour

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Hast never come to thee an hour, A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth? These eager business aims--books, politics, art, amours, To utter nothingness?

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