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This portable document file is furnished free and without any charge of any. Poems not published in his lifetime were added in 1897. Mcclatchy calls walt whitman s vision mystical and too uncanny to have. Walt whitman 31 may 1819 26 march 1892 walter walt was an american poet, essayist and journalist.
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