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OLD AGE'S LAMBENT PEAKS.
THE touch of flame—the illuminating fire—the loftiest look at last,O'er city, passion, sea—o'er prairie, mountain, wood—the earth itself;
The airy, different, changing hues of all, in falling twilight,
Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:
So much i' the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence we scan,
Bro't out by them alone—so much (perhaps the best) unreck'd before;
The lights indeed from them—old age's lambent peaks.
Walt Whitman.
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Publication Information
"Old Age's Lambent Peaks."
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
38 (September 1888):
735.
Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).
Whitman Archive ID
per.00135