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Before Him, A Picture (After Walt Whitman)

Winter, William. "Before Him, A Picture (After Walt Whitman)." New York Saturday Press. (1860-10-20).
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Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker simulates a universal experience of attending church--sitting and standing before God, singing praise, offerings, etc.--and then going back out into the streets "No longer Before Him."

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