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MY PICTURE-GALLERY by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: IN A LITTLE HOUSE KEEP I PICTURES SUSPENDED, IT IS NOT A FIX'D HOUSE,
Last Line: WITH FINGER RAIS'D HE POINTS TO THE PRODIGAL PICTURES.
Subject(s): PAINTINGS & PAINTERS;
In a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;
Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories!
Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;
Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
With finger rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.



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