Then Last of All

by Walt Whitman · 1891-1892
Published 01/07/1891

Then last of all, caught from these shores, this hill,

Of you O tides, the mystic human meaning:

Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,

The brain that shapes, the voice that chants this song.

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