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Leaves of Grass.
(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever

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Of what was once lacking on the earth, and in due time has become supplied — And of what will yet be supplied,

Because all I see and know, I believe to have purport in what will yet be supplied.


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Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like.

To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and Souls,

So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked, And often, to me, each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself.

And of each one, the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots.

And often, to me, those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,

And often, to me, they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more.

And often, to me, they are sad, hasty, unwaked son- nambules, walking the dusk.

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