Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 17. The Runner


On a flat road runs the well-train'd runner,
He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.






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