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“A Clear Midnight” by Walt Whitman


This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,

Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson

done,

Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the

themes thou lovest best,

Night, sleep, death and the stars.

By TDarris

Thinker. Reader. Writer--- of, and about, a plethora of things.

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