Poem by Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 27. To Get the Final Lilt of Songs

To get the final lilt of songs,
To penetrate the inmost lore of poets—to know the mighty ones,
Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakespere, Tennyson, Emerson;
To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—
      to truly understand,
To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.

1. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 8. An Ended Day
2. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 56. Old Age's Lambent Peaks
3. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 24. Washington's Monument February, 1885
4. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 19. A Twilight Song
5. Leaves of Grass. 5. Calamus. 15. City of Orgies

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