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TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS by WALT WHITMAN

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Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; OLD AGE;
To get the final lilt of songs,
To penetrate the inmost lore of poets''"to know the mighty ones,
Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt''"to truly understand,
To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.



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