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Walt Whitman - I Was Looking A Long While
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I WAS looking a long while for a clue 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 average man of to-day.
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