I Was Looking a Long While

Walt Whitman * Track #190 On Leaves of Grass

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Album Leaves of Grass

ALBUM

Walt Whitman

1855

I Was Looking a Long While by Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

I Was Looking a Long While Annotated

I was looking a long while for Intentions,
For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these
chants—and now I have found it,
It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither
accept nor reject,)
It is no more in the legends than in all else,
It is in the present—it is this earth to-day,
It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day,
It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery,
politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
All for the modern—all for the average man of to-day.

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