“Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.”

—  Walt Whitman , book Drum-Taps

Drum-Taps. Bivouac on a Mountain-side
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

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