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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.


Publication Information
"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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