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Leaves of Grass
1881
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World Take Good Notice.
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DRUM-TAPS.
WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE.
W
ORLD
take good notice, silver stars fading,
Milky hue ript, weft of white detaching,
Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,
Scarlet, significant, hands off warning,
Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
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DRUM-TAPS.
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