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[WRITTEN FOR THE HERALD.]

THE CALMING THOUGHT OF ALL.

That coursing on whate'er men's speculations,
Amid the changing schools, theologies, philoso-
      phies,
Amid the bawling presentations new and old,
The round earth's silent vital laws, facts, modes
      continue.

WALT WHITMAN.


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"The Calming Thought of All."  New York Herald  27 May 1888:  12.  Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

Whitman Archive ID
per.00124


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