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Leaves of Grass
1891
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The Runner.
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BY THE ROADSIDE.
THE RUNNER.
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a flat road runs the well-train'd runner,
He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
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