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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 308 of 382 · Sands at Seventy

To-Day and Thee

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The appointed winners in a long-stretch’d game; The course of Time and nations--Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books, Garner’d for now and thee--To think of it! The heirdom all converged in thee!

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