Fire Whitman

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    Oh! joyous hearts! enfired with holy flame!
    Is speech thus tasseled with praise?
    Will not your inward fire of joy contain:
    That it in open flames doth blaze?
    For in Christ’s coach saints sweetly sing,
    As they to glory ride therein.
    Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

    Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
    Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)