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A young man stands at the Delaware River’s edge, with the Walt Whitman Bridge in the background, and
burning, aching, “resistless,” emphatically physical yearning for young men (see “From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
“I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the
Commune and “From the Genius of Liberty,” 215 Leaves of Grass (1870–71), 145–60; “From Pent- Up A ching Rivers
ready to spend the rest of the day alone with his interesting visitor, and proposes a trip across the river
And yet, deep down like in Wagner's Rheingold , we keep hearing the dark, incessant running of the river
, that in our case will be the "spinal river," as Whitman called the Mississippi, America's backbone.
The letter is written in the simple language familiar to Pete, who was an omnibus driver: "The river
At either tide, flood or ebb, the water is always rushing along as if in haste, & the river is often