My Picture-Gallery

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My Picture-Gallery by Walt Whitman

 IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix’d house, 
It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other; 
Yet behold, it has room for all the shows of the world, all memories? 
Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death; 
Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
With finger rais’d he points to the prodigal pictures.

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