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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 48. Twilight


The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell'd—(I too will soon be
      gone, dispell'd,)
A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.



Walt Whitman


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