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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Book XXXIV. Sands At Seventy: 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.

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