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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE FERRY: WHITMAN, by MAX J. HERZBERG
First Line: He passed amid the noisy throngs
Last Line: Our greatest man.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)
First Line: He passed amid the noisy throngs
Last Line: Our greatest man.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)
He passed amid the noisy throngs,
His elbow touched with theirs;
They grumbled at their petty wrongs,
Their woes and cares.
They asked if "Princeton stood to win,"
Or what they should invest;
They told with gusto and with grin
Some idle jest.
They jostled him and passed him by,
Nor slacked their eager pace;
They did not mark that noble eye,
That noble face.
So carelessly they let him go,
His mien they could not scan, --
Thinker whom all the world would know,
Our greatest man.
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