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FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 8 by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: THEN LAST OF ALL, CAUGHT FROM THESE SHORES, THIS HILL
Last Line: THE BRAIN THAT SHAPES, THE VOICE THAT CHANTS THIS SONG.

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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