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Leaves of grass -- Inscriptions -- Starting from Paumanok -- Song of myself -- Children of Adam -- Calamus -- Salut au monde! -- Song of the open road -- Crossing Brooklyn ferry -- Song of the answerer -- Our old fueillage -- Song of joys -- Song of the broad-axe -- Song of the exposition -- Song of the redwood-tree -- Song for occupations -- Song of the rolling Earth -- Youth, day, old age and night -- Birds of Passage -- Broadway pageant -- Sea-drift -- By the roadside -- Drum-taps -- Memories of President Lincoln -- By blue Ontario's shore -- Reversals --Autumn rivulets -- Proud music of the storm -- Passage to India -- Prayer of Columbus -- Sleepers -- Transpositions -- To think of time -- Whispers of heavenly death -- Thou mother with thy equal brood -- Paumanok picture -- From noon to starry night -- Songs of parting -- First annex: Sands at seventy -- Second annex: good-bye my fancy -- Notes -- Interpretive notes -- Critical excerpts -- Questions for discussion -- Suggestions for the interested reader.