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There Was a Child Went Forth

    The mother at home, quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table;
    The mother with mild words clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by;
    The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, anger’d, unjust;
    The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure,
    The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture the yearning and swelling heart,
    Affection that will not be gainsay’d the sense of what is real the thought if, after all, it should prove unreal,
    The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time the curious whether and how,
    Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
    Men and women crowding fast in the streets if they are not flashes and specks, what are they?
    The streets themselves, and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
    Vehicles, teams, the heavy-plank’d wharves the huge crossing at the ferries,
    The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset the river between,
    Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
    The schooner near by, sleepily dropping down the tide the little boat slack-tow’d astern,
    The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,
    The strata of color’d clouds, the long bar of maroon-tint, away solitary by itself the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
    The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud;
    These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.

    - Walt Whitman



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