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LIFE.

Ever, the undiscouraged, resolute struggling
       soul of man;
 Have former armies failed? Then we send fresh
       armies—and fresh again
 Ever the grappled mystery of all earth's ages
       old or new;
 Ever the eager eyes, hurrahs, the welcome-clap-
       ping hands, the loud applause;
 Ever the soul dissatisfied, curious, unconvinced
       at last;
 Struggling to-day the same—battling the same.

WALT WHITMAN.

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Publication Information
"Life."  New York Herald  15 April 1888:  16.  Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

Notes
The "Sands at Seventy" version of the poem includes parentheses around the second line.

Whitman Archive ID
per.00083


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