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

76. The Runner

ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner;

He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;

He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as he runs,

With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais’d.