Walt Whitman, ‘When I heard at the Close of Day’, Leaves of Grass[Text ID: “And that night, while al
Walt Whitman, ‘When I heard at the Close of Day’, Leaves of Grass[Text ID: “And that night, while all was still, I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands, as directed to me, whispering, to congratulate me,For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,In the stillness, in the autumn moonbeams, his face was inclined toward me,And his arm lay lightly around my breast–And that night I was happy..” -- source link
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