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PAUMANOK by WALT WHITMAN

Poet Analysis

First Line: SEA-BEAUTY! STRETCH'D AND BASKING!
Last Line: ISLE OF THE SALTY SHORE AND BREEZE AND BRINE!

Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!
One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious
commerce, steamers, sails,
And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle --
mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.
Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water -- healthy air and soil!
Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!



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