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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 301 of 382 · Sands at Seventy

As I Sit Writing Here

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As I sit writing here, sick and grown old, Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities, Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, May filter in my dally songs.

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