I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of severa…

Walt Whitman
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.63, NYU Press
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