EXCURSION in LEAVES OF GRASS - verbalworkout.com

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Definition

a short journey taken for pleasure

or:

a digression from the main path of a journey

The saloon of the steamer! the crowded excursion for me! the torchlight procession!
Book 21 — DRUM-TAPS (75% in)

We Two Boys Together Clinging We two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making, Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching, Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
Book 5 — CALAMUS (78% in)
...Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp, There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree; Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women; Children at play, or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!
Book 10 — Our Old Feuillage (47% in)

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excursion used in Leaves of Grass