“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”

Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Leaves of Grass

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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

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