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am a Russ, An arctic sailor traversing I traverse the sea of Kara A Kamskatkan Kamchatkan drawn on my
Poem for of of adherence to of my adherence the good old cause the "good old cause" is that in all its
Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White, my
up before the fire, just like a man—was every way decided and masculine in behavior The tradition of my
Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy
.— When my little friend Tom Thumb, travelled with the circus he stood behind the stand, in a Missouri
.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe
—"Step-along, my bullies!" Come, bullies, hop, now! hop now!" (9 Mixture of passengers .
Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes, In which and
to the President at his levee, / And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield
of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as "My
with me about God; I can yet just begin to comprehend nothing more wonderful than so tremendous as my