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The Runner, By: Walt Whitman

October 16, 2026 by Editors

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On a flat road runs the well-train’d runner,
He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais’d.

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