Note 14 — THE ETCHERS OF PASTORAL
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Compare also a little-known piece of Whitman’s “The Ox-Tamer,” in Autumn Rivulets, which ends:
Now I marvel what it can be he appears to them ... I confess I envy only his fascination—my silent, illiterate friend, Whom a hundred oxen love there in his life on farms, In the northern county far, in the placid pastoral region.