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30342	Burroughs, John	Whitman: A Study			.txt	text/plain	67717	2785	69	When John Brown mounted the scaffold in Virginia, in 1860, the poet says:-- I was at hand, silent I stood with teeth shut close, I watch'd, I stood very near you, old man, when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds, you mounted the scaffold,-- very near him he stood in spirit; very near him he stood in the person of others, but not in his own proper person. VIII Whitman was of large mould in every way, and of bold, far-reaching schemes, and is very sure to fare better at the hands of large men than of small.	cache/30342.txt	txt/30342.txt
