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• The Appeal
  By Rudyard Kipling

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  Excerpt: It I have given you delight By aught that I have done, Let me lie quiet in that night Which shall be yours anon: And for the little, little, span ...
• Naaman's Song
  By Rudyard Kipling

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  Excerpt: ‘Go, wash thyself in Jordan, go, wash thee and be clean! ‘ Nay, not for any Prophet will I plunge a toe therein! For the banks of curious Jordan are ...
• A Broadway Pageant
  By Walt Whitman

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  Excerpt: Over the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, ...
• I Saw Old General At Bay
  By Walt Whitman

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  Excerpt: I saw old General at bay; (Old as he was, his grey eyes yet shone out in battle like stars;) His small force was now completely hemm'd in, in his ...
• I Thought I Was Not Alone
  By Walt Whitman

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  Excerpt: I thought I was not alone, walking here by the shore, But the one I thought was with me, as now I walk by the shore, As I lean and look through the ...