The Walt Whitman Archive
Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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THE RUNNER.
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ON a flat road runs the well-train'd runner;
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He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;
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He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as he runs,
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With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais'd.
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