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But before I sit down let me say I brought with me the regrets of some friends over the river—especially
Donaldson .— And I brought with me from an old gentleman on the Allegheny river a bottle of whiskey which
Stedman .— "Life, after all, is not like a river—although it is the fashion to say that it is—for that
And Whitman's poetry is like the river: nothing of it more tranquil, nothing broader and deeper, than
We think of you at Concord as often as we look out over the meadows across the river, which you were
base-ball, or breathe in drowsily— "for reasons," he would say—the refreshing air; or he is guided to the river
thisconnection, however, may note has to make himself familiarwith the whole poet of America — its lands, rivers
He isBehemoth, wallowing inprimeval jungles, bathing at fountain-heads ofmighty rivers,crush- ing the
human Cities,arts, thought explore. occupations, manufactures, have a larger place in his poetry than rivers