Leaves of Grass Annexes: Sands at Seventy (1st Annex, 1888); Good-Bye My Fancy (2nd Annex, 1891); A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads (1888)

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass Annexes: Sands at Seventy (1st Annex, 1888); Good-Bye My Fancy (2nd Annex, 1891); A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads (1888)
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SHAKSPERE-BACON'S CIPHER.

I DOUBT it not -- then more, far more;
In each old song bequeath'd -- in every noble page or text,
(Different -- something unreck'd before -- some unsuspected
     author,)
In every object, mountain, tree, and star -- in every birth and
     life,
As part of each -- evolv'd from each -- meaning, behind the os-
     tent,
A mystic cipher waits infolded.