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Poem by Walt Whitman


Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 1. Mannahatta


My city's fit and noble name resumed,
Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,
A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming,
      going, hurrying sea waves.



Walt Whitman


Walt Whitman's other poems:
  1. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. 56. Old Age's Lambent Peaks
  2. Leaves of Grass. 5. Calamus. 21. The Prairie-Grass Dividing
  3. Leaves of Grass. 24. Autumn Rivulets. 13. Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
  4. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. Fancies at Navesink. 1. The Pilot in the Mist
  5. Leaves of Grass. 34. Sands at Seventy. Fancies at Navesink. 7. By That Long Scan of Waves


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