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1861
Armed year! year of the struggle!
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!
Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano; … Continue Reading …
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A Broadway Pageant
Over sea, hither from Niphon,
Courteous, the Princes of Asia, swart-cheeked princes,
First-comers, guests, two-sworded princes, … Continue Reading …
A Broadway Pageant
Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come,
Courteous, the swart-cheek’d two-sworded envoys,
Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, … Continue Reading …
A Dream
Of him I love day and night, I dreamed I heard he was dead;
And I dreamed I went where they had buried him I love—but he was not in
that place; … Continue Reading …
A Grave
As toilsome I wandered Virginia’s woods,
To the music of rustling leaves kicked by my feet—for ’twas autumn— … Continue Reading …
A Letter From Camp
“Come up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete;
And come to the front door, mother—here’s a letter from thy dear son.” … Continue Reading …
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
A march in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown,
A route through a heavy wood with muffled steps in the darkness,
Our army foil’d with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating, … Continue Reading …
A Ship
Aboard, at the ship’s helm,
A young steersman, steering with care. … Continue Reading …
A Sight In Camp
A sight in camp in the daybreak grey and dim,
As from my tent I emerge so early, sleepless, … Continue Reading …
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
A sight in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
As from my tent I emerge so early sleepless,
As slow I walk in the cool fresh air the path near by the hospital tent, … Continue Reading …
A Twilight Song
As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,
Musing on long-pass’d war-scenes—of the countless buried unknown soldiers,
Of the vacant names, as unindented air’s and sea’s—the unreturn’d, … Continue Reading …
A Word Out Of The Sea
Out of the rocked cradle,
Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, … Continue Reading …
Adieu to a Soldier
Adieu O soldier,
You of the rude campaigning (which we shared),
The rapid march, the life of the camp,… Continue Reading …
After The War
To the leavened soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last;
Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor the dead: … Continue Reading …
American Feuillage
AMERICA always!
Always our own feuillage!
Always Florida’s green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! … Continue Reading …
Among The Multitude
Among the men and women, the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs, … Continue Reading …
Antecedents
With antecedents;
With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages:
With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am; … Continue Reading …
Appearances
Of the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all—that we may be deluded, … Continue Reading …
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
As I walk these broad majestic days of peace
(For the war, the struggle of blood finish’d, wherein, O terrific Ideal, … Continue Reading …
Ashes of Soldiers
Ashes of soldiers South or North,
As I muse retrospective murmuring a chant in thought,
The war resumes, again to my sense your shapes, … Continue Reading …
Assimilations
There was a child went forth every day;
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became; … Continue Reading …
Auxiliaries
WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal; … Continue Reading …
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Beat! Beat! Drums!
Beat! beat! drums!—Blow! bugles! blow!
Through the windows—through doors—burst like a force of ruthless men,
Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation; … Continue Reading …
Beginners
How they are provided for upon the earth, appearing at intervals;
How dear and dreadful they are to the earth; … Continue Reading …
Bivouac On A Mountain Side
I see before me now a travelling army halting;
Below, a fertile valley spread, with barns, and the orchards of summer; … Continue Reading …
Boston Town
To get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early;
Here’s a good place at the corner—I must stand and see the show. … Continue Reading …
Burial
To think of it!
To think of time—of all that retrospection!
To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! … Continue Reading …
By Blue Ontario’s Shore
By blue Ontario’s shore,
As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return’d, and the dead that return no more, … Continue Reading …
By Broad Potomac’s Shore
By broad Potomac’s shore, again old tongue
(Still uttering, still ejaculating, canst never cease this babble?) … Continue Reading …
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Camps Of Green
Not alone our camps of white, O soldiers,
When, as ordered forward, after a long march,
Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens, we halt for the night; … Continue Reading …
Centuries Hence
Full of life now, compact, visible,
I, forty years old the eighty-third year of the States,
To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence, … Continue Reading …
City Of Ships
City of ships!
(O the black ships! O the fierce ships! … Continue Reading …
Come Up From the Fields Father
Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,
And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy dear son. … Continue Reading …
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face. … Continue Reading …
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Delicate Cluster
Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!
Covering all my lands—all my seashores lining!
Flag of death! (how I watch’d you through the smoke of battle pressing! … Continue Reading …
Despairing Cries
Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death—the call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarmed, uncertain, … Continue Reading …
Dirge For Two Veterans
The last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finished Sabbath
On the pavement here—and, there beyond, it is looking … Continue Reading …
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Elemental Drifts
Elemental drifts! O I wish I could impress others as you and the waves have just been impressing me. … Continue Reading …
Envy
When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes, and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals, … Continue Reading …
Europe, The Seventy-Second And Seventy-Third Years Of These States
Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
Like lightning it leaped forth, half startled at itself, … Continue Reading …
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Faces
The old face of the mother of many children,Whist! I am fully content.
Lull’d and late is the smoke of the First-day morning, … Continue Reading …
First O Songs for a Prelude
First O songs for a prelude,
Lightly strike on the stretch’d tympanum pride and joy in my city,
How she led the rest to arms, how she gave the cue, … Continue Reading …
Fit Audience
Whoever you are, holding me now in hand,
Without one thing, all will be useless:
I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further, … Continue Reading …
Flux
Of these years I sing, How they pass through convulsed pains, as through parturitions; How America illustrates birth, gigantic youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, despite of people—Illustrates evil as well as good; … Continue Reading …
For You O Democracy
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,
I will make divine magnetic lands, … Continue Reading …
France, The Eighteenth Year Of These States
A great year and place; A harsh, discordant, natal scream out-sounding, to touch the mother’s heart closer than any yet. … Continue Reading …
From Far Dakota’s Cañons
From far Dakota’s cañons,
Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch, the silence,
Haply to-day a mournful wail, haply a trumpet-note for heroes. … Continue Reading …
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Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
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, … Continue Reading …
Greatnesses
Great are the myths—I too delight in them;
Great are Adam and Eve—I too look back and accept them; … Continue Reading …
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I Hear America Singing
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, … Continue Reading …
How Solemn as One by One
How solemn as one by one,
As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand, … Continue Reading …
Hymn Of Dead Soldiers
One breath, O my silent soul!
A perfumed thought—no more I ask, for the sake of all dead soldiers. … Continue Reading …
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Links
Think of the Soul;
I swear to you that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to
live in other spheres; … Continue Reading …
Long, Too Long America
Long, too long America,
Travelling roads all even and peaceful you learn’d from joys and prosperity only,… Continue Reading …
Longings For Home
O Magnet South!
O glistening, perfumed South! my South! … Continue Reading …
Love Of Comrades
Come, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon!
I will make divine magnetic lands, … Continue Reading …
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Manhattan Arming
First, O songs, for a prelude,
Lightly strike on the stretched tympanum, pride and joy in my city,
How she led the rest to arms—how she gave the cue, … Continue Reading …
Manhattan Faces
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling;
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard; … Continue Reading …
Meeting Again
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been received with
plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that
followed; … Continue Reading …
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. … Continue Reading …
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, … Continue Reading …
Hush’d be the Camps To-day
Hush’d be the camps to-day,
And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
And each with musing soul retire to celebrate, … Continue Reading …
Miracles
What shall I give? and which are my miracles?
Realism is mine—my miracles—Take freely, Take without end—I offer them to you wherever your feet can carry you or your eyes reach. … Continue Reading …
Music
I heard you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last Sunday morn I passed
the church; … Continue Reading …
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Nearing Departure
As nearing departure,
As the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,
A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me. … Continue Reading …
Night And Death
Night on the prairies.
The supper is over—the fire on the ground burns low;
The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapped in their blankets; … Continue Reading …
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O Captain! My Captain! (For The Death Of Lincoln)
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done!
The ship has weathered every wrack, the prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, … Continue Reading …
O Magnet-South
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! my South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me! … Continue Reading …
O Star of France
O star of France,
The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
Like some proud ship that led the fleet so long, … Continue Reading …
O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
O tan-faced prairie boy!
Before you came to camp came many a welcome gift; … Continue Reading …
Old Ireland
Far hence, amid an isle of wondrous beauty,
Crouching over a grave, an ancient sorrowful mother,
Once a queen—now lean and tattered, seated on the ground, … Continue Reading …
Old War-Dreams
In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded (of that indescribable look),
Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide, … Continue Reading …
Other Lands
This moment yearning and thoughtful, sitting alone,
It seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful; … Continue Reading …
Our Old Feuillage!
Always our old feuillage!Always Florida’s green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas, … Continue Reading …
Out Of The Crowd
Out of the rolling ocean, the crowd, came a drop gently to me,
Whispering, I love you; before long I die: … Continue Reading …
Over The Carnage
Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice,—
Be not disheartened—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; … Continue Reading …
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Parting Friends
What think you I take my pen in hand to record?
The battle-ship, perfect-modelled, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-
day under full sail? … Continue Reading …
Pensive on her Dead Gazing
Pensive on her dead gazing I heard the Mother of All,
Desperate on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battlefields gazing … Continue Reading …
Pioneers! O Pioneers
Come, my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; … Continue Reading …
Poets to come
Poets to come!
Not to-day is to justify me, and Democracy, and what we are for;
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before … Continue Reading …
President Lincoln’s Funeral Hymn
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,
And the great star[1] early drooped in the western sky in the night, … Continue Reading …
Pulse Of My Life
Not heaving from my ribbed breast only;
Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself;
Not in those long-drawn, ill-suppressed sighs; … Continue Reading …
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Questionable
As I lay with my head in your lap, camerado,
The confession I made I resume—what I said to you and the open air I
resume. … Continue Reading …
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Realities
As I walk, solitary, unattended,
Around me I hear that éclat of the world—politics, produce,
The announcements of recognised things—science, … Continue Reading …
Reconciliation
Word over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly
lost; … Continue Reading …
Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deeps
Rise O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep,
Long for my soul hungering gymnastic I devour’d what the earth gave me, … Continue Reading …
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Salut Au Monde
O take my hand, Walt Whitman!
Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
Such joined unended links, each hooked to the next! … Continue Reading …
Similitude
On the beach at night alone,
As the old Mother sways her to and fro, singing her savage and husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining— … Continue Reading …
Singers And Poets
The indications and tally of time;
Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs;
Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts; … Continue Reading …
Singing In Spring
These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers:
For who but I should understand lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?
And who but I should be the poet of comrades? … Continue Reading …
So Long!
To conclude—I announce what comes after me;
I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then depart, … Continue Reading …
Song At Sunset
Splendour of ended day, floating and filling me!
Hour prophetic—hour resuming the past: … Continue Reading …
Song Of The Banner At Daybreak
O a new song, a free song,
Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
By the wind’s voice and that of the drum, … Continue Reading …
Song Of The Broad-Axe
Weapon, shapely, naked, wan;
Head from the mother’s bowels drawn!
Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip only one! … Continue Reading …
Spirit Whose Work Is Done
Spirit whose work is done! spirit of dreadful hours!
Ere, departing, fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets— … Continue Reading …
Starting From Paumanok
Starting from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,
Well-begotten, and raised by a perfect mother;
After roaming many lands—lover of populous pavements; … Continue Reading …
Survivors
How solemn, as one by one,
As the ranks returning, all worn and sweaty—as the men file by where I
stand; … Continue Reading …
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Tears
Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;
On the white shore dripping, dripping, sucked in by the sand; … Continue Reading …
The Bivouac’s Flame
By the bivouac’s fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow;—but first I
note… Continue Reading …
The City Dead-House
By the City Dead-House, by the gate,
As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangour,
I curious pause … Continue Reading …
The City Of Friends
I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of
the rest of the earth; … Continue Reading …
The Dark Side
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all
oppression and shame; … Continue Reading …
The Dresser
An old man bending, I come among new faces,
Years, looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, … Continue Reading …
The Dying Veteran
Amid these days of order, ease, prosperity,
Amid the current songs of beauty, peace, decorum,
I cast a reminiscence—(likely ‘t will offend you,I heard it in my boyhood)— … Continue Reading …
The Flag
Bathed in war’s perfume—delicate flag!
O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like a beautiful
woman! … Continue Reading …
The Friend
Recorders ages hence!
Come, I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior—
I will tell you what to say of me; … Continue Reading …
The Mother Of All
Pensive, on her dead gazing, I heard the Mother of all,
Desperate, on the torn bodies, on the forms covering the battlefields,
gazing; … Continue Reading …
The Past-Present
I was looking a long while for the history of the past for myself, and for
these chants—and now I have found it. … Continue Reading …
The Poet
Now list to my morning’s romanza;
To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before me. … Continue Reading …
The Prairie States
A newer garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, … Continue Reading …
The Return of the Heroes
For the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
Now I awhile retire to thee O soil of autumn fields,
Reclining on thy breast, giving myself to thee, … Continue Reading …
The Square Deific
Chanting the Square Deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides;
Out of the old and new—out of the square entirely divine,
Solid, four-sided, (all the sides needed) … Continue Reading …
The United States to Old World Critics
Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete,
Wealth, order, travel, shelter, products, plenty; … Continue Reading …
The Uprising
Rise, O days, from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier and fiercer
sweep!
Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I devoured what the earth gave me; … Continue Reading …
The Veteran’s Vision
While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,
And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the mystic midnight passes, … Continue Reading …
The Waters
The world below the brine. Forests at the bottom of the sea—the branches and leaves, Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds—the thick tangle,… Continue Reading …
The Wound-Dresser
An old man bending I come among new faces,
Years looking backward resuming in answer to children,
Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me … Continue Reading …
The Wounded
A march in the ranks hard-pressed, and the road unknown;
A route through a heavy wood, with muffled steps in the darkness; … Continue Reading …
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
Thick-sprinkled bunting! flag of stars!
Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death, … Continue Reading …
This Compost
Something startles me where I thought I was safest;
I withdraw from the still woods I loved;
I will not go now on the pastures to walk; … Continue Reading …
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood
Thou Mother with thy equal brood,
Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
A special song before I go I’d sing o’er all the rest, … Continue Reading …
Thoughts
Of these years I sing,
How they pass and have pass’d through convuls’d pains, as through parturitions, … Continue Reading …
To A Foiled Revolter Or Revoltress
Courage! my brother or my sister!
Keep on! Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs … Continue Reading …
To A Historian
You who celebrate bygones:
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races—the life that has
exhibited itself; … Continue Reading …
To A Pupil
Is reform needed? Is it through you? The greater the reform needed, the greater the PERSONALITY you need to accomplish it. … Continue Reading …
To A Stranger
Passing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you;
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking (it comes to me, as of a
dream). … Continue Reading …
To a Certain Civilian
Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Did you seek the civilian’s peaceful and languishing rhymes?
Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow? … Continue Reading …
To Foreign Lands
I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World,
And to define America, her athletic Democracy, … Continue Reading …
To One Shortly To Die
From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, … Continue Reading …
To The Sayers Of Words
Earth, round, rolling, compact—suns, moons, animals—all these are words
to be said; … Continue Reading …
To The States
Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
What deepening twilight! Scum floating atop of the waters! … Continue Reading …
To Thee Old Cause
To thee old cause!
Thou peerless, passionate, good cause,Thou stern, remorseless, sweet idea,
Deathless throughout the ages, races, lands, … Continue Reading …
To Working Men
Come closer to me;
Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess;
Yield closer and closer, and give me the best you possess. … Continue Reading …
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Unnamed Lands
Nations, ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
thousand years before these States; … Continue Reading …
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Vigil On The Field
VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night,
When you, my son and my comrade, dropped at my side that day. … Continue Reading …
Visages
Of the visages of things—And of piercing through to the accepted hells
beneath. … Continue Reading …
Voices
Now I make a leaf of Voices—for I have found nothing mightier than they
are,… Continue Reading …
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War Dreams
In clouds descending, in midnight sleep, of many a face in battle,
Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, of that indescribable look, … Continue Reading …
Weave In, My Hardy Life
Weave in, weave in, my hardy life,
Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come, … Continue Reading …
What Best I See in Thee
What best I see in thee
Is not that where thou mov’st down history’s great highways,
Ever undimm’d by time shoots warlike victory’s dazzle, … Continue Reading …
Wherefore?
O me! O life!—of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with the foolish; … Continue Reading …
Whosoever
Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear those supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands; … Continue Reading …
Wonders
Who learns my lesson complete?
Boss, journeyman, apprentice—churchman and atheist, … Continue Reading …
Years of the Modern
Years of the modern! years of the unperform’d!
Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas,
I see not America only, not only Liberty’s nation but other nations preparing, … Continue Reading …
Years Of The Unperformed
Years of the unperformed! your horizon rises—I see it part away for more
august dramas;
I see not America only—I see not only Liberty’s nation but other nations
embattling; … Continue Reading …
Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
Year that trembled and reel’d beneath me!
Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me, … Continue Reading …
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