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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

272. Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour

HAST never come to thee an hour,

A sudden gleam divine, precipitating, bursting all these bubbles, fashions, wealth?

These eager business aims—books, politics, art, amours,

To utter nothingness?