dense-fringed

Updated: May 4, 2025

The mild, the fierce, the stony face; Some bright with thoughtless smiles and some Where secret tears have left their trace. I stop's long and long, with the crowd, to view them one lying down chewing the cud, and one standing up, looking out, with dense-fringed patient eyes.

Walt Whitman - Complete Prose Works: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy