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As I Sit Writing Here

by Walt Whitman, 1892

As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
May filter in my dally songs.

Published in Leaves of Grass
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