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Leaves of Grass
1891
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Roaming in Thought.
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BY THE ROADSIDE.
ROAMING IN THOUGHT.
(
After reading
H
EGEL
.)
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is
Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself
and become lost and dead.
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