Poem of the Day - April 29

Shut Not Your Doors by Walt Whitman

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries,

For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd

shelves, yet needed most, I bring.

Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every

thing.

A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by

the intellect,

But you ye untold latencies will thrill every page.

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