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He founded a solid business in lamps and oils, and was the sole proprietor of a concern called the Greenside Company's Works 'a multifarious concern it was, writes my cousin, Professor Swan, 'of tinsmiths, coppersmiths, brass-founders, blacksmiths, and japanners. He was also, it seems, a shipowner and underwriter.
As to his talk about comrades and Manhattanese car-drivers, and brass-founders displaying their brawny arms round each other's brawny necks, all this gush and sentiment in Whitman's poetry is false to life. It has a lyrical value, as representing Whitman's personal feelings, but no one else in the country was ever found who felt or acted like this.
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