Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
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- Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia, 1882)
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Public domain: Whitman died in 1892; this edition was published in 1882.
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