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" I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night. "
Proceedings, Abstracts of Lectures and a Brief Report of the Discussions of ... - Page 821
by National Education Association of the United States - 1898
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The Broadway Annual: A Miscellany of Original Literature in Poetry and Prose

1867 - 968 pages
...objects of the universe perpetually flow ; AH are written to me, and I must get what the writing means. I know I am deathless ; I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by the carpenter's compass ; I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at...
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David Gray, and Other Essays: Chiefly on Poetry

Robert Williams Buchanan - 1868 - 340 pages
...objects of the universe perpetually flow; All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means. I know I am deathless ; I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by the carpenter's compass ; I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at...
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The Southern Review, Volume 9, Issues 18-20

1871
...invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-removed ; I cock my hat as I please, indoors and out . . . ... I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlicue cut with a burnt stick at night, . . . . . . My foothold...
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Education, Volume 49

1928 - 692 pages
...longer than soil is brown and solid — longer than water ebbs and flows." And again: "I know that I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlicue cut with a burnt stick at night." "My rendezvous is...
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Papers for the times [ed. by W. Lewin]., Volume 3

Walter Lewin - 1880 - 368 pages
...traditions, arguments, and bases his firm faith on the immediate testimony of the Soul:— " I know that I am deathless. I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by the carpenter's compass. I know I am august. I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood....
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Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman - 1883 - 404 pages
...objects of the universe perpetually flow, All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means. I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night. I know I am august,...
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Anne Gilchrist, Her Life and Writings

Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1887 - 442 pages
...me, and I must get what the writing To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually means. I know I am deathless; I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by the carpenter's compass; I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 656 pages
...onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night. IN ALL, MYSELF. 1"...
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Poet Lore, Volume 17

1906 - 554 pages
...immortality as a fact, you must continually be making allowances when you read what Whitman writes. ' I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass, I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night. ' ' Is it wonderful...
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Gems from Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman - 1889 - 76 pages
...know what is untried and afterward, But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail. I know I am deathless, I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass. Ibid. Stanza 43. Ibid. Stanza 20. And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million...
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