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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 294 of 382 · Sands at Seventy

Mannahatta

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My city’s fit and noble name resumed, Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning, A rocky founded island--shores where ever gayly dash the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.

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