I was Looking a Long While

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I was Looking a Long While by Walt Whitman

 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 in all else; 
It is in the present—it is this earth to-day; 
It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past;)
It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day; 
It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts; 
It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern
 improvements, and the interchange of nations, 
All for the average man of to-day.

Form: Free verse

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