Walt Whitman (18191892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
86. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
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FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face;
Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.
Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you are to me!
On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home,...
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