To-day gives place, and fades—the     cities, farms, factories fade;
A muffled sonorous sound, a wailing     word is borne through the air for a     moment,
Then blank and gone and still, utterly     lost.

(Yonnondio 626)
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Walt Whitman Memorial Home, 330 Mickle St., Camden, New Jersey.