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Roaming in Thought.

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

ROAMING in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening
towards
immortality,
And the vast all that is call’d Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost
and
dead.




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