Excerpt from The Work of Tagore The forest did indeed inspire our solitary poets, and none more than Whitman. But Whitman loved the locomotive, too. In a somewhat sprawling fashion he attempted the straddle - to love God's world and also the conquest of it. He cheered lustily when any democrat succeeded in subduing a bit of the forest, but in his day there was enough of it left for him to loaf in and invite his soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...
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Excerpt from The Work of Tagore The forest did indeed inspire our solitary poets, and none more than Whitman. But Whitman loved the locomotive, too. In a somewhat sprawling fashion he attempted the straddle - to love God's world and also the conquest of it. He cheered lustily when any democrat succeeded in subduing a bit of the forest, but in his day there was enough of it left for him to loaf in and invite his soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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