"Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades."
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Walt Whitman, in Leaves of Grass, "On the Beach at Night" (1871; 1881)
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