Fire Whitman

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“This Indian camp was a slight, patched-up affair, which had stood there several weeks, built shed-fashion, open to the fire on the west.... Altogether it was about as savage a sight as was ever witnessed, and I was carried back at once three hundred years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Then dearest child mournest thou only for Jupiter?
Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)