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Others May Praise What They Like

by Walt Whitman, 1892

Others may praise what they like;
But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else,
Till it has well inhaled the atmosphere of this river, also the western prairie-scent,
And exudes it all again.

Published in Leaves of Grass
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