...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State Uni... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...........................509 The Sobbing of the Bells (Midnight, Sept. 19 20, 1881)......................510 As They Draw to a Close...................... ...se, always obligated, Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, compacts, establishments, even the most minute, Thither every day life, speech, ute... ... Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks! Land of... ... fields and tides. Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life old Thames, By you Potomac ... ...eat the morning drum. THE S OBBING OF THE B ELLS (M IDNIGHT, S EPT. 19 20, 1881) The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death news everywhere, The slu...

...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................