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described to him the hermit thrush he had known as a boya bird that
Audubon apparently had never discovered. Burroughs had occasionally
heard its songa quarter of a mile away rising over a chorus of wrens and
warblersresembling no other sound that he recalled in naturea beati-
tude that was religiouspure and serene. This was the bird that appeared
in Whitman’s poem.
Van Wyck Brooks
The Times of Melville and Whitman
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Some of the most interesting of the pilgrims who sought Whitman out in his
later years in CamdenNew Jerseycame from England:
Oscar Wildewearing his brown velvet suitcrossed over to Camden
with J. M. Stoddardthe publisher. They were admitted to the Whitman
home on Stevens Street by Walt’s sister-in-lawwho o
?ered them elder-
berry wine. Wilde drank it o? as if it ‘were the nectar of the gods’ and
con?ded to Stoddard later that‘If it had been vinegarI would have
drunk it all the samefor I have an admiration for that man which I can
hardly express.’ The two poets got along splendidly together. Walt called
him‘Oscar’ and the younger man sat at his feet on a low stoolwith
his hand on the poet’s knee. Next day to a Philadelphia Press reporter
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