<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Was Looking A Long While</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for<br> myself, and for these chants--and now I have found it;<br> It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither<br> accept nor reject;)<br> It is no more in the legends than in all else;<br> It is in the present--it is this earth to-day;<br> It is in Democracy--(the purport and aim of all the past;)<br> It is the life of one man or one woman to-day--the average man of<br> to-day;<br> It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts;<br> It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery,<br> politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of<br> nations,<br> All for the average man of to-day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535027" data-title="I Was Looking A Long While de Walt Whitman" data-description="I WAS looking a long while for a clue to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants--and now I have found it; It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject;) It is no more in the legends than..."></div> </div> </div>

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