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FROM MONTAUK POINT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:—I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing
but sea and sky)
The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the
distance,
The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that
inbound urge and urge of waves,
Seeking the shores forever.
WALT WHITMAN.
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Publication Information
"From Montauk Point."
New York Herald
1 March 1888:
6.
Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Notes
Montauk Point, now part of Montauk Point State Park in New York, is on the far eastern end of Long Island.
Whitman Archive ID
per.00112