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Walt Whitman

   HOW they are provided for upon the earth, (appearing at intervals;)
   How dear and dreadful they are to the earth;
   How they inure to themselves as much as to any--What a paradox
         appears their age;
   How people respond to them, yet know them not;
   How there is something relentless in their fate, all times;
   How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,
   And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same
         great purchase.

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