The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sle…

Walt Whitman
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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? ✨ 1871 Passage to India, opening verse.
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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? ✨ 1871 Passage to India, opening verse.

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