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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 342 of 382 · Sands at Seventy

Twilight

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The soft voluptuous opiate shades,
The sun just gone, the eager light dispell’d--(I too will soon be
gone, dispell’d,)
A haze--nirwana--rest and night--oblivion.

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