Runner The

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Runner The by Walt Whitman

 ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner; 
He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs; 
He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as he runs, 
With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais’d.

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