Leaves of Grass

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Author: Walt Whitman  | Date: 1855

The Pilot in the Mist

STEAMING the northern rapids- (an old St. Lawrence reminiscence,

A sudden memory-flash comes back, I know not why,

Here waiting for the sunrise, gazing from this hill;) *001

Again ’tis just at morning- a heavy haze contends with daybreak,

Again the trembling, laboring vessel veers me- I press through

foam-dash’d rocks that almost touch me,

Again I mark where aft the small thin Indian helmsman

Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.

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Chicago: Walt Whitman, "The Pilot in the Mist," Leaves of Grass Original Sources, accessed March 29, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2PUSSH279LHJCV.

MLA: Whitman, Walt. "The Pilot in the Mist." Leaves of Grass, Original Sources. 29 Mar. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2PUSSH279LHJCV.

Harvard: Whitman, W, 'The Pilot in the Mist' in Leaves of Grass. Original Sources, retrieved 29 March 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2PUSSH279LHJCV.