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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. "
Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting - Page 819
by National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1898
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Arbor Day: Its History, Observation, Spirit and Significance, Volume 3

Robert Haven Schauffler - 1913 - 400 pages
...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. • •••••••...
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Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas

Walt Whitman - 1916 - 388 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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Leaves of Grass (1) & Democratic Vistas

Walt Whitman - 1916 - 390 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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American Poets and Their Theology

Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1916 - 522 pages
...inextinguishable hope. He appropriates the results of Christianity, without fulfilling its conditions: 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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American Poetry

Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 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; '9° I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick...
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The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Walt Whitman - 1918 - 294 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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Poems

Walt Whitman - 1921 - 342 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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Religious Thought in the Greater American Poets

Elmer James Bailey - 1922 - 282 pages
...qualities," he added in Song of the Broad-Axe; "I know I am deathless," he insisted in Song of Myself, — " 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." Such knowledge, such...
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The Canadian Magazine, Volume 61

1923 - 578 pages
...end with calm. In her "Confession of Faith" she quotes with assurance Whitman's own words on Death— "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 calacue cut with a burnt stick at...
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The Le Gallienne Book of American Verse

Richard Le Gallienne - 1925 - 448 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. One world is away...
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