By That Long Scan of Waves.

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BY THAT LONG SCAN OF WAVES.

By that long scan of waves, myself call'd back, resumed upon
myself, In every crest some undulating light or shade—some retrospect, [ begin page 391 ]

ppp.00707.399.jpg Joys, travels, studies, silent panoramas—scenes ephemeral, The long past war, the battles, hospital sights, the wounded and
the dead, Myself through every by-gone phase—my idle youth—old age at
hand, My three-score years of life summ'd up, and more, and past, By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing, And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some
wave, or part of wave, Like one of yours, ye multitudinous ocean.

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