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THOUGHT (6) by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: OF WHAT I WRITE FROM MYSELF - AS IF THAT WERE NOT THE RESUME
Last Line: THE LIVES OF HEROES.
Of what I write from myself -- As if that were not the resume;
Of Histories -- As if such, however complete, were not less
complete than the preceding poems;
As if those shreds, the records of nations, could possibly
be as lasting as the preceding poems;
As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all
the lives of heroes.



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