All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world,…

Walt Whitman
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All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers! ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.475, NYU Press
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All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers! ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.475, NYU Press

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