The Project Gutenberg EBook of Leaves of Grass, by Walt ...

Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent, A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining, Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by. the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors, The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw, ................
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