Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thought…

Walt Whitman
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.231, NYU Press
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.231, NYU Press

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