Pleasâd with the native and pleasâd with the foreign, pleasâd with the new and old, Pleasâd with the homely woman as well as the handsome, Pleasâd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously, Pleasâd with the tune of the choir of the whitewashâd church, Pleasâd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, impressâd seriously at the camp-meeting; Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon, flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass, Wandering the same afternoon with my face turnâd up to the clouds, or down a lane or along the beach, My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle; Coming home with the silent and dark-cheekâd bush-boy, (behind me he rides at the drape of the day,) Far from the settlements studying the print of animalsâ feet, or the moccasin print, By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient, Nigh the coffinâd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
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