A Discovery of Old Age

Walt Whitman * Track #12 On Specimen Days

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Album Specimen Days

ALBUM

Walt Whitman

2014

A Discovery of Old Age by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

A Discovery of Old Age Annotated

Perhaps the best is always cumulative. One's eating and drinking one wants fresh, and for the nonce, right off, and have done with it—but I would not give a straw for that person or poem, or friend, or city, or work of art, that was not more grateful the second time than the first—and more still the third. Nay, I do not believe any grandest eligibility ever comes forth at first. In my own experience, (persons, poems, places, characters,) I discover the best hardly ever at first, (no absolute rule about it, however,) sometimes suddenly bursting forth, or stealthily opening to me, perhaps after years of unwitting familiarity, unappreciation, usage.

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