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His "Brooklyn Ferry" and the section entitled "Delaware River—Days and Nights" in "Specimen Days", sufficiently
Presently a cheery shout from the top of a dray; and before we had gone many yards farther the river
York, he had had a "fancy" to visit Sing-sing prison, the great penal establishment up the Hudson river
His " Brooklyn Ferry section entitled" Delaware River and the — Days and Nights" in " Specimen Days,"
New York, he had had a fancy to visit Sing-sing prison,the great penal establish- ment up the Hudson river
He cele- brates in his poems the fluid, all-solvent disposition,but often was himself lessthe river than
As the great rivers,when falling into the main, lose their name and are thenceforth reckoned as the great
(p.66.) 99 — Days with Walt Whitman "Tao as it exists in the world is like the great rivers and seas