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FATHER.

Walt Whitman

Nothing, my babe, you see in the sky;

And nothing at all to you it says. But look you, my babe,

Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops

opening;

And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods:

These! ah, these! how valued and toiled for, these!

How envied by all the earth!