Walt Whitman (1819-1892) to Abraham Paul Leech (1815-1886),
September 9, 1840
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. . . my purgatory here is just finishing--In a few days more
I shall be unbound and unloosed--
. . .'O how my spirit springs
and grows elastic at the idea of leaving this diabolical, and
most particularly cursed locality!
. . . old school-room, dirty-faced
urchins, and moth eaten desk, I bid ye all a long farewell
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