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THE FEW DROPS KNOWN by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: OF HEROES, HISTORY, GRAND EVENTS, PREMISES, MYTHS, POEMS
Last Line: WHAT ARE THEY TO THE LONG AND COPIOUS RETROSPECT OF ANTIQUITY?
Of heroes, history, grand events, premises, myths, poems,
The few drops known must stand for oceans of the unknown,
On this beautiful and thick peopl'd earth, here and there a
little specimen put on record,
A little of Greeks and Romans, a few Hebrew canticles, a
few death odors as from graves, from Egypt --
What are they to the long and copious retrospect of antiquity?



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