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Read the excerpt from “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer" by Walt Whitman. Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,

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This excerpt might suggest that the world is a place to be observed in contemplation. As regards the words "rising and gliding", it might be said that Whitman used them to portray how the speaker is feeling, maybe he is happy to leave. 
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