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j. ir M the I W »rld wan nr rn i. 1 Wa« BO willing that an] had of them should ill upon tl 1 new Autochthon! lit ratlin which Ameri WAA to bring i rth, Will ihedayever come—no ma r how long deferred when tin e un hds and lay-fi Ores from tin' IJriti h I lands—and even t h e \ traditions of the classics w-ill I r u t i n ices lies o n l y / The pure l u e a t h , primi • i venesf boundless prodigality und amplitude, strange 1 tm o\ dclica v and power, of • tin e, of real ind ideal, and o\' all origin I and first cl •- lomonts of t h e s e p r a i r i -. th Rocky mountain:md of t h e Mis i8sippi and Mirisson ri\ei p ir in, and in some >r{ f o r m a will they stamlard r a 1 I U K poetry, and art? il sometimes think that even th< mbition of my fri ml Joaquin Miller t•« j>ut th i in, and illustrate them, places him ahead of th whole crow 1. ) ' ' B fore W h i t m a n had published hie famous L8f>» edition he had already defined in his mind t h e g r at A m e r i c a n poet of t h e f n t u r tnd his i d e a n e v e r cluing d. How much his work 1 < i or uains by such a ri 1 a d h e r e n c e bo an early s t a n d a r d , we . m- not know. Thai he did nol de] nt from it. his late w -\ certify. "J ti me caution or prud(ii the soundest rganic health, I rge hope and comparison and f idness for women and c h i l d r e n , large iilimenti\ ne a and can tlity, u ith a pert of 36E of the Oil n. s n a t u r e , and the propriety ^<\' the same spii | app!n 1 t iiiiman affairs, are c .lied up ^\' the ih u th. brain of bhe word bo I" parts ..f th i at t p« I n in hi birth -ut of hi mother' w nl . and fi m fa r birth oui of her moi h.-r' 1 hedi > trial of him w ho would l>e the create t ! •; i
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