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Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

JOY! shipmate—joy!
(Pleas’d to my Soul at death I cry;)
Our life is closed—our life begins;
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last—she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore;
Joy! shipmate—joy!




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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again

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