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Leaves of Grass
BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
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  1. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
  2. LEAVES OF GRASS
  3. Contents
  4. BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
  5. One’s-Self I Sing
  6. As I Ponder’d in Silence
  7. In Cabin’d Ships at Sea
  8. To Foreign Lands
  9. To a Historian
  10. To Thee Old Cause
  11. Eidolons
  12. For Him I Sing
  13. When I Read the Book
  14. Beginning My Studies
  15. Beginners
  16. To the States
  17. On Journeys Through the States
  18. To a Certain Cantatrice
  19. Me Imperturbe
  20. Savantism
  21. The Ship Starting
  22. I Hear America Singing
  23. What Place Is Besieged?
  24. Still Though the One I Sing
  25. Shut Not Your Doors
  26. Poets to Come
  27. To You
  28. Thou Reader
  29. BOOK II
  30. BOOK III
  31. BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
  32. From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
  33. I Sing the Body Electric
  34. A Woman Waits for Me
  35. Spontaneous Me
  36. One Hour to Madness and Joy
  37. Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
  38. Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
  39. We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d
  40. O Hymen! O Hymenee!
  41. I Am He That Aches with Love
  42. Native Moments
  43. Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City
  44. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
  45. Facing West from California’s Shores
  46. As Adam Early in the Morning
  47. BOOK V. CALAMUS
  48. Scented Herbage of My Breast
  49. Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
  50. For You, O Democracy
  51. These I Singing in Spring
  52. Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only
  53. Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
  54. The Base of All Metaphysics
  55. Recorders Ages Hence
  56. When I Heard at the Close of the Day
  57. Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?
  58. Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone
  59. Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
  60. Trickle Drops
  61. City of Orgies
  62. Behold This Swarthy Face
  63. I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
  64. To a Stranger
  65. This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
  66. I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
  67. The Prairie-Grass Dividing
  68. When I Peruse the Conquer’d Fame
  69. We Two Boys Together Clinging
  70. A Promise to California
  71. Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
  72. No Labor-Saving Machine
  73. A Glimpse
  74. A Leaf for Hand in Hand
  75. Earth, My Likeness
  76. I Dream’d in a Dream
  77. What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
  78. To the East and to the West
  79. Sometimes with One I Love
  80. To a Western Boy
  81. Fast Anchor’d Eternal O Love!
  82. Among the Multitude
  83. O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
  84. That Shadow My Likeness
  85. Full of Life Now
  86. BOOK VI
  87. BOOK VII
  88. BOOK VIII
  89. BOOK IX
  90. BOOK X
  91. BOOK XI
  92. BOOK XII
  93. BOOK XIII
  94. BOOK XIV
  95. BOOK XV
  96. BOOK XVI
  97. Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
  98. BOOK XVII. BIRDS OF PASSAGE
  99. Pioneers! O Pioneers!
  100. To You
  101. France [the 18th Year of these States
  102. Myself and Mine
  103. Year of Meteors [1859-60
  104. With Antecedents
  105. BOOK XVIII
  106. BOOK XIX. SEA-DRIFT
  107. As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life
  108. Tears
  109. To the Man-of-War-Bird
  110. Aboard at a Ship’s Helm
  111. On the Beach at Night
  112. The World below the Brine
  113. On the Beach at Night Alone
  114. Song for All Seas, All Ships
  115. Patroling Barnegat
  116. After the Sea-Ship
  117. BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE
  118. Europe [The 72d and 73d Years of These States]
  119. A Hand-Mirror
  120. Gods
  121. Germs
  122. Thoughts
  123. Perfections
  124. O Me! O Life!
  125. To a President
  126. I Sit and Look Out
  127. To Rich Givers
  128. The Dalliance of the Eagles
  129. Roaming in Thought [After reading Hegel]
  130. A Farm Picture
  131. A Child’s Amaze
  132. The Runner
  133. Beautiful Women
  134. Mother and Babe
  135. Thought
  136. Visor’d
  137. Thought
  138. Gliding O’er all
  139. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
  140. Thought
  141. To Old Age
  142. Locations and Times
  143. Offerings
  144. To The States [To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad]
  145. BOOK XXI. DRUM-TAPS
  146. Eighteen Sixty-One
  147. Beat! Beat! Drums!
  148. From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird
  149. Song of the Banner at Daybreak
  150. Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps
  151. Virginia—The West
  152. City of Ships
  153. The Centenarian’s Story
  154. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
  155. Bivouac on a Mountain Side
  156. An Army Corps on the March
  157. Come Up from the Fields Father
  158. Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
  159. A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
  160. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
  161. As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods
  162. Not the Pilot
  163. Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me
  164. The Wound-Dresser
  165. Long, Too Long America
  166. Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
  167. Dirge for Two Veterans
  168. Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice
  169. I Saw Old General at Bay
  170. The Artilleryman’s Vision
  171. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
  172. Not Youth Pertains to Me
  173. Race of Veterans
  174. World Take Good Notice
  175. O Tan-Faced Prairie-Boy
  176. Look Down Fair Moon
  177. Reconciliation
  178. How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
  179. As I Lay with My Head in Your Lap Camerado
  180. Delicate Cluster
  181. To a Certain Civilian
  182. Lo, Victress on the Peaks
  183. Spirit Whose Work Is Done [Washington City, 1865]
  184. Adieu to a Soldier
  185. Turn O Libertad
  186. To the Leaven’d Soil They Trod
  187. BOOK XXII. MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
  188. O Captain! My Captain!
  189. Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865
  190. This Dust Was Once the Man
  191. BOOK XXIII
  192. Reversals
  193. BOOK XXIV. AUTUMN RIVULETS
  194. The Return of the Heroes
  195. There Was a Child Went Forth
  196. Old Ireland
  197. The City Dead-House
  198. This Compost
  199. To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire
  200. Unnamed Land
  201. Song of Prudence
  202. The Singer in the Prison
  203. Warble for Lilac-Time
  204. Outlines for a Tomb [G. P., Buried 1870]
  205. Out from Behind This Mask [To Confront a Portrait]
  206. Vocalism
  207. To Him That Was Crucified
  208. You Felons on Trial in Courts
  209. Laws for Creations
  210. To a Common Prostitute
  211. I Was Looking a Long While
  212. Thought
  213. Miracles
  214. Sparkles from the Wheel
  215. To a Pupil
  216. Unfolded out of the Folds
  217. What Am I After All
  218. Kosmos
  219. Others May Praise What They Like
  220. Who Learns My Lesson Complete?
  221. Tests
  222. The Torch
  223. O Star of France [1870-71]
  224. The Ox-Tamer
  225. Wandering at Morn
  226. With All Thy Gifts
  227. My Picture-Gallery
  228. The Prairie States
  229. BOOK XXV
  230. BOOK XXVI
  231. BOOK XXVII
  232. BOOK XXVIII
  233. Transpositions
  234. BOOK XXIX
  235. BOOK XXX. WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH
  236. Whispers of Heavenly Death
  237. Chanting the Square Deific
  238. Of Him I Love Day and Night
  239. Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
  240. As If a Phantom Caress’d Me
  241. Assurances
  242. Quicksand Years
  243. That Music Always Round Me
  244. What Ship Puzzled at Sea
  245. A Noiseless Patient Spider
  246. O Living Always, Always Dying
  247. To One Shortly to Die
  248. Night on the Prairies
  249. Thought
  250. The Last Invocation
  251. As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
  252. Pensive and Faltering
  253. BOOK XXXI
  254. A Paumanok Picture
  255. BOOK XXXII. FROM NOON TO STARRY NIGHT
  256. Faces
  257. The Mystic Trumpeter
  258. To a Locomotive in Winter
  259. O Magnet-South
  260. Mannahatta
  261. All Is Truth
  262. A Riddle Song
  263. Excelsior
  264. Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
  265. Thoughts
  266. Mediums
  267. Weave in, My Hardy Life
  268. Spain, 1873-74
  269. From Far Dakota’s Canyons [June 25, 1876]
  270. Old War-Dreams
  271. Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
  272. As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days
  273. A Clear Midnight
  274. BOOK XXXIII. SONGS OF PARTING
  275. Years of the Modern
  276. Ashes of Soldiers
  277. Thoughts
  278. Song at Sunset
  279. As at Thy Portals Also Death
  280. My Legacy
  281. Pensive on Her Dead Gazing
  282. Camps of Green
  283. The Sobbing of the Bells [Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881]
  284. As They Draw to a Close
  285. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
  286. The Untold Want
  287. Portals
  288. These Carols
  289. Now Finale to the Shore
  290. So Long!
  291. BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY
  292. Paumanok
  293. From Montauk Point
  294. To Those Who’ve Fail’d
  295. A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine
  296. The Bravest Soldiers
  297. A Font of Type
  298. As I Sit Writing Here
  299. My Canary Bird
  300. Queries to My Seventieth Year
  301. The Wallabout Martyrs
  302. The First Dandelion
  303. America
  304. Memories
  305. To-Day and Thee
  306. After the Dazzle of Day
  307. Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809
  308. Out of May’s Shows Selected
  309. Halcyon Days
  310. Election Day, November, 1884
  311. With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!
  312. Death of General Grant
  313. Red Jacket (From Aloft)
  314. Washington’s Monument February, 1885
  315. Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
  316. Broadway
  317. To Get the Final Lilt of Songs
  318. Old Salt Kossabone
  319. The Dead Tenor
  320. Continuities
  321. Yonnondio
  322. Life
  323. “Going Somewhere”
  324. Small the Theme of My Chant
  325. True Conquerors
  326. The United States to Old World Critics
  327. The Calming Thought of All
  328. Thanks in Old Age
  329. Life and Death
  330. The Voice of the Rain
  331. Soon Shall the Winter’s Foil Be Here
  332. While Not the Past Forgetting
  333. The Dying Veteran
  334. Stronger Lessons
  335. A Prairie Sunset
  336. Twenty Years
  337. Orange Buds by Mail from Florida
  338. Twilight
  339. You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me
  340. Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone
  341. The Dead Emperor
  342. As the Greek’s Signal Flame
  343. The Dismantled Ship
  344. Now Precedent Songs, Farewell
  345. An Evening Lull
  346. Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
  347. After the Supper and Talk
  348. BOOKXXXV. GOOD-BYE MY FANCY
  349. Lingering Last Drops
  350. Good-Bye My Fancy
  351. On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
  352. MY 71st Year
  353. Apparitions
  354. The Pallid Wreath
  355. An Ended Day
  356. Old Age’s Ship & Crafty Death’s
  357. To the Pending Year
  358. Shakspere-Bacon’s Cipher
  359. Long, Long Hence
  360. Bravo, Paris Exposition!
  361. Interpolation Sounds
  362. To the Sun-Set Breeze
  363. Old Chants
  364. A Christmas Greeting
  365. Sounds of the Winter
  366. A Twilight Song
  367. When the Full-Grown Poet Came
  368. Osceola
  369. A Voice from Death
  370. A Persian Lesson
  371. The Commonplace
  372. “The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete”
  373. Mirages
  374. L. of G.’s Purport
  375. The Unexpress’d
  376. Grand Is the Seen
  377. Unseen Buds
  378. Good-Bye My Fancy!
  379. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE

BOOK XXXIV. SANDS AT SEVENTY

Mannahatta

  My city’s fit and noble name resumed,
  Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning,
  A rocky founded island—shores where ever gayly dash the coming,
      going, hurrying sea waves.

Paumanok

  Sea-beauty! stretch’d and basking!
  One side thy inland ocean laving, broad, with copious commerce,
      steamers, sails,
  And one the Atlantic’s wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls
      dark-gliding in the distance.
  Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
  Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!

From Montauk Point

  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.

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