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A Clear Midnight

by Walt Whitman, 1892

This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.

Published in Leaves of Grass
Tags: night, space

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