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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 217 of 382 · Autumn Rivulets

Others May Praise What They Like

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Others may praise what they like; But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else, Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent, And exudes it all again.

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