Excerpt from Leaves of Grass, Vol. 3
However that may be, I feel like improving to day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I have sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps - lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly) which now I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly (for my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming, and my brain more and more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight tasks or revisions).
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