Poems Of Walt Whitman: Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Whitman, Walt

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Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun

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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full - dazzling, Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows, Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape, Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me a serene - moving animals teaching content, Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars, Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb'd, Give me for marriage a sweet - breath'd woman of ...

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