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WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
I see all the menials of the earth, laboring, I see all the prisoners in the prisons, I see the defective
All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son
be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death
I answer'd, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book
Then falter not O book, fulfil fulfill your destiny, You not a reminiscence of the land alone, You too
soldiers not for itself alone, Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link'd
When I Read the Book. WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life
When I Read the Book. WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life
I answered, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book
Then falter not O book, fulfil fulfill your destiny, You not a reminiscence of the land alone, You too
soldiers not for itself alone, Far, far more stood silently waiting behind, now to advance in this book
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link'd
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All
book-words! what are you?
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison, the runaway son
be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death
When I Read the Book. WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
I see the menials of the earth, laboring; I see the prisoners in the prisons; I see the defective human
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run-away son
17 All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
let the prison- keepers prison-keepers be put in prison!
I answer'd, I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my book
for you I fold it here, in every leaf;) Speed on, my Book!
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's
Merged in its spirit I and mine—as the contest hinged on thee, As a wheel on its axis turns, this Book
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
Let the prison-keepers be put in prison! Let those that were prisoners take the keys! (Say!
The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep, The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run-away son
book-words! what are you?
17 All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
When I Read the Book WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
WHEN I read the book, the biography famous; And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a man's
Biographyabout 1867poetry1 leafhandwritten18 by 11 cm; Heavily revised draft of the poem When I Read the Book