Leaves of Grass

of

e myself, an

assume you

elonging to me as

and invi

my ease observing a

of my blood, form'd fr

s born here from pare

arents

ven years old in p

cease not

d schools i

sufficed at what they

or bad, I permit to

ut check with

full of perfumes, the s

perf

grance myself and k

ld intoxicate me also,

not a perfume, it

llation, it

uth forever, I am

by the wood and become

it to be in c

ke of my

whispers, love-root, sil

spiration, the beating

d and air thr

leaves and dry leaves

d sea-rocks, and

ch'd words of my voice

the

a few embraces, a re

d shade on the trees a

in the rush of the stre

nd hill

h, the full-noon trill

bed and mee

usand acres much? have yo

tis'd so long t

proud to get at t

ht with me and you shal

all

good of the earth and

of sun

e things at second or thi

e dead, nor feed on

rough my eyes either, n

all sides and filter

the talkers were tal

inning an

alk of the begin

any more inception

youth or age th

any more perfectio

eaven or hell th

nd urge

procreant urg

pposite equals advance

rease, al

ity, always distinction,

ail, learn'd and unlear

ertain sure, plumb i

ied, braced

, affectionate, ha

s mystery h

oul, and clear and sweet

h, and the unseen is

unseen and receive

d dividing it from th

fitness and equanimity

silent, and go bath

nd attribute of me, and of

rticle of an inch is v

familiar th

ed-I see, danc

ng bed-fellow sleeps at m

t the peep of the day

ver'd with white towels

their

ceptation and realizatio

from gazing after

cipher and sho

e and exactly the value o

and askers

ffect upon me of my ea

live in, or

veries, inventions, socie

associates, looks,

indifference of some

of my folks or of myse

oney, or depressio

of fratricidal war, the

e fitful

days and nights a

are not the

ulling and hauling

placent, compassiona

or bends an arm on an

curved head curious

the game and watching

y own days where I sw

uists and

gs or arguments, I

ul, the other I am must

not be abased

he grass, loose the

or rhyme I want, not

even t

like, the hum of

e lay such a transp

ad athwart my hips and ge

from my bosom-bone, a

y bare-str

elt my beard, and reach'

ead around me the peace

e argument o

he hand of God is t

e spirit of God is t

ever born are also my

sisters a

elson of the c

leaves stiff or dr

in the little w

e worm fence, heap'd st

poke

the grass? fetching i

child? I do not know wh

e flag of my dispositio

stuff

is the handkerch

and remembrancer

name someway in the co

remark, an

itself a child, the produc

t is a uniform

ting alike in broad z

g black folks

Congressman, Cuff, I

eive them

o me the beautiful u

ll I use you

anspire from the b

ad known them I wo

m old people, or from o

their mot

ou are the m

ark to be from the whi

he colorless be

m under the faint

fter all so many

o not come from the roo

te the hints about the d

old men and mothers, a

n out of

k has become of th

ink has become of th

live and wel

rout shows there

it led forward life, a

nd to a

the moment

d and outward, n

ent from what any one

supposed it lu

or her it is just as lu

dying and birth with t

tain'd between m

objects, no two alik

the stars good, and t

arth nor an adj

ompanion of people, a

homless a

know how immort

lf and its own, for m

t have been boys a

s proud and feels how i

art and the old maid,

thers of

have smiled, eyes t

n and the begett

ot guilty to me, nor

broadcloth and gin

s, acquisitive, tireless,

one sleeps

look a long time, and s

with m

e red-faced girl turn

y view them

ls on the bloody fl

with its dabbled hair,

has

, tires of carts, sluf

he prom

the driver with his i

e shod horses on

linking, shouted joke

pular favorites, the

'd litter, a sick man ins

mies, the sudden oat

he policeman with his

to the centr

es that receive and

d or half-starv'd who fa

of women taken sudde

ve birth

ed speech is always vi

train'd b

slights, adulterous of

tions with

how or resonance of th

the country barn st

the harvest-time load

ys on the brown gray

are pack'd to

lp, I came stretch

jolts, one leg rec

ss-beams and seize th

heels and tangle my

the wilds and m

ed at my own lig

on choosing a safe sp

and broiling the

gather'd leaves with m

nder her sky-sails, she c

I bend at her prow or sho

am-diggers arose ear

ends in my boots and w

n with us that day ro

f the trapper in the o

bride was

iends sat near cross-le

ins to their feet and

ng from the

rapper, he was drest most

otected his neck, he hel

s, her head was bare, h

er voluptuous limbs an

e came to my house

ns crackling the tw

f-door of the kitchen I

at on a log and led h

ill'd a tub for his sweat

that enter'd from my

rse clean

y well his revolving ey

plasters on the galls

ek before he was recupe

e at table, my fire-lo

young men bat

young men and a

s of womanly life a

ine house by the

nd richly drest aft th

oung men does sh

est of them is

u off to, lady

ter there, yet stay st

along the beach came

ee her, but she saw

men glisten'd with wet, it

s pass'd all ov

d also pass'd o

mblingly from thei

n their backs, their wh

o not ask who sei

uffs and declines with p

hink whom they

off his killing-clothes

e stall in

is repartee and his s

rimed and hairy ches

dge, they are all out,

the

rew'd threshold I fo

eir waists plays even w

s swing, overhand so

sten, each man h

y the reins of his four

ath on its ti

s the long dray of the

s pois'd on one leg

es his ample neck and

his hi

nd commanding, he toss

y from hi

crispy hair and mustach

lish'd and p

que giant and love him,

ith the

of life wherever movi

orward

unior bending, not a pe

l to myself an

yoke and chain or halt

you express

than all the print I

wood-drake and wood-

ay-long

ther, they slowl

in those win

red, yellow, white

and violet and the tu

rtoise unworthy because

never studied the gamut, ye

he bay mare shames

eads his flock thro

d sounds it down to m

se it meaningless, b

nd place up there to

e of the north, the cat

adee, the p

grunting sow as th

rkey-hen and she with

m and myself t

t to the earth spring

e best I can do

ur'd of grow

ong cattle or taste o

steerers of ships and

and the drive

leep with them we

t, cheapest, neare

my chances, spendi

estow myself on the fi

sky to come dow

ng it free

ralto sings in

ses his plank, the t

s its wild as

ed children ride home to

king-pin, he heaves d

in the whale-boat, lanc

walks by silent and

rdain'd with cross'

reats and advances to t

the bars as he walks o

s at the o

ied at last to the as

any more as he did in

bed-

h gray head and gaunt

obacco while his eyes bl

mbs are tied to th

ved drops horr

sold at the auction-sta

e bar-ro

p his sleeves, the poli

te-keeper ma

es the express-wagon, (

not kn

s on his light boots t

ooting draws old and yo

es, some s

the marksman, takes his p

-come immigrants cove

oe in the sugar-field,

rom his

the ball-room, the ge

the dancers bo

in the cedar-roof'd g

musica

raps on the creek that

r yellow-hemm'd cloth i

ad-bags

s along the exhibition

es bent

ke fast the steamboat

hore-going

s out the skein while t

, and stops now and

recovering and happy

er firs

ee girl works with her

actory

on his two-handed ram

r the note-book, the si

th blue

on the tow-path, the b

e shoemaker wa

me for the band and all

, the convert is making

on the bay, the race i

ails sp

his drove sings out to

h his pack on his back,

out the

her white dress, the m

moves

lines with rigid head

es her shawl, her bonne

pimple

er blackguard oaths, t

each

not laugh at your o

g a cabinet council is

Secret

ee matrons stately and f

mack pack repeated layer

es the plains toting h

goes through the train

ling of lo

aying the floor, the

masons are cal

shouldering his hod pa

other the indescribabl

enth-month, (what salutes

h other the plougher p

inter-grain fal

pike-fisher watches a

e frozen

k round the clearing, t

with h

towards dusk near the co

ough the regions of t

the Tennessee, or throu

ark that hangs on the Ch

per with sons and grand

around

n canvas tents, rest hu

eir day'

eeps and the

r their time, the dea

y his wife and the young h

ward to me, and I t

is to be of these

and all I weave t

ung, of the foolish

others, ever reg

as paternal, a chil

ff that is coarse and

that i

many nations, the sma

argest

as a Northerner, a p

le down by the

n way ready for trade,

rth and the sterne

ng the vale of the E

, a Louisiania

bays or along coasts, a

now-shoes or up in the

ff Newf

of ice-boats, sailing w

of Vermont or in the

Texan

ans, comrade of free N

ir big pr

and coalmen, comrade

lcome to dri

simplest, a teacher o

g yet experient of

caste am I, of ever

ic, artist, gentle

man, rowdy, lawyer

hing better than

air but leave

tuck up, and a

the fish-eggs ar

and the dark suns I cann

ts place and the impal

thoughts of all men in

not origin

s much as mine they are n

dle and the untying of th

as close as they are di

t grows wherever the la

mon air that b

I come, with my co

or accepted victors on

er'd and sl

that it was goo

d to fall, battles are

which the

nd pound f

mbouchures my loudest

those who h

hose war-vessels

themselves who

hat lost engagements, a

known heroes equal to t

ually set, this the m

just same as the righte

with

a single person sl

sponger, thief,

ave is invited, the v

difference between

a bashful hand, this th

lips to yours, this t

depth and height re

l merge of myself, a

I have some int

Fourth-month showers ha

de of a

ke it I wou

stonish? does the ear

rough th

onish more

tell things

ll everybody, bu

hankering, gross

ract strength fro

anyhow? what am

own you shall offse

e time lost l

el that snivel

cuums and the ground

ing fold with powders f

to the four

t as I please

why should I venera

the strata, analyzed to

rs and calc

er fat than stick

yself, none more and no

bad I say of mys

am solid

g objects of the univ

me, and I must get wh

I am de

mine cannot be swept by

ass like a child's car

tick at

w I am

spirit to vindicate it

elementary laws

o prouder than the lev

afte

s I am, tha

the world be aw

nd all be aware

d by far the largest to

to my own to-day or i

millio

it now, or with equal

tenon'd and mor

what you call

w the ampli

the Body and I am t

n are with me and the pa

d increase upon myself

nto new

of the woman the

as great to be a w

nothing greater tha

chant of dil

king and deprecat

size is only

ipt the rest? are

y will more than arri

still

ks with the tender

arth and sea half

m'd night-press close m

winds-night of th

night-mad nake

uptuous cool-

slumbering an

sunset-earth of the

s pour of the full moo

d dark mottling the

ray of clouds brighter

ow'd earth-rich ap

or your lo

given me love-therefo

kable pass

ng me tight and

the bridegroom and the

myself to you also-I

the beach your

fuse to go back wi

ether, I undress, hurry m

ft, rock me in

amorous wet,

retch'd gro

broad and conv

ife and of unshovell'd

r of storms, capric

ou, I too am of one ph

d efflux I, extoller of

and those that sleep

attestin

of things in the house

upports

goodness only, I do not

wickedn

this about virtu

eform of evil propels m

fault-finder's o

e roots of all

scrofula out of the

tial laws are yet to be w

balance and the anti

as steady help a

of the present our

comes to me over

o better tha

he past or behaves well

d always how there can be

folding of w

of the modern, t

he faith that

t is all the same to me,

t flaw, it alone rou

ffling wonder al

lity and dare

m first and

e science! long live

mixt with cedar an

pher, this the chemist,

e old ca

the ship through da

t, this works with the

mathem

o you the firs

eful, and yet they

them to an area

ders of properti

they of life untold, and

nt of neuters and geld

men full

revolt, and stop with

ot and c

a kosmos, of M

sensual, eating, dr

stander above men and

modest tha

he locks fr

ors themselves f

rades another

done or said ret

us surging and surging,

and

rd primeval, I give t

cept nothing which

part of on th

e many long

minable generations o

'd and despairing and

es of preparatio

hat connect the stars,

father

ts of them the ot

, trivial, flat,

, beetles rollin

me forbidd

lusts, voices veil'd

by me clarified

ss my fingers

round the bowels as ar

no more rank to

the flesh and

ing, are miracles, and

is a m

nd out, and I make hol

touch'

se arm-pits aroma

an churches, bibles

ng more than another i

body, or an

mould of me it

s and rests it

ine colter it

o the tilth of me

our milky stream pale

s against other brea

all be your occu

t-flag! timorous pond

ate eggs! it

of head, beard, br

ple, fibre of manly w

nerous it s

and shading my fac

ooks and dews i

kling genitals rub aga

s, branches of live oa

g paths, it

ace I have kiss'd, mort

t shall

here is that lot of m

whatever happens t

kles bend, nor whence the

he friendship I emit

ndship I t

toop, I pause to cons

window satisfies me mo

of b

old the

ades the immense and

astes good

world at innocent ga

reshly

obliquely h

ot see puts upward

ight juice s

staid with, the daily c

ge from the east tha

, See then whether

dous how quick the su

ow and always send

dazzling and trem

y soul in the calm and

after what my ey

tongue I encompass worl

f my vision, it is une

forever, it say

enough, why don't y

t be tantalized, you

articu

peech how the buds be

gloom, protec

ing before my pr

causes to balan

ts, it keeping tally with

ever hears me let him o

of thi

e you, I refuse putting

ds, but never tr

est and best by simp

nd talk do

of proof and every

my lips I wholly co

l do nothin

nto this song, to let sou

rds, bustle of growing

f sticks cook

I love, the sound

nning together, combin

sounds out of the city, s

s to those that like

people at t

jointed friendship, the

tight to the desk, his

death-

tevedores unlading sh

n of the anc

s, the cry of fire, the

arts with premonitory ti

e solid roll of the tra

t the head of the associa

corpse, the flag-tops are

lo, ('tis the young ma

rnet, it glides quick

eet pangs through

chorus, it is

eed is music-

nd fresh as the c

his mouth is pouring

d soprano (what wor

whirls me wider

ors from me I did not

bare feet, they are lick

er and angry hail,

orphine, my windpipe thr

again to feel the

at we ca

any form, w

go, all of us, and e

elop'd the quahaug in its

no callo

uctors all over me wh

bject and lead it ha

ess, feel with my f

some one else's is about

ouch? quivering me

her making a ru

f me reaching and c

laying out lightning t

ferent fr

rient provokers st

der of my heart fo

tious toward me,

of my best as

lothes, holding me

with the calm of the sun

liding the fel

f with touch and go and

regard for my drainin

of the herd around t

to stand on a hea

desert every ot

t me helpless t

e headland to witness

ven up by

ave lost my wits, I

reatest

o the headland, my own

t are you doing? my brea

loodgates, you ar

ng touch, sheath'd hoo

e you ache s

rriving, perpetual pay

ain, and recompens

umulate, stand by the

cted masculine, fu

hs wait in

ten their own deli

the obstetric for

icant is as bi

ess or more

sermons ne

night drives dee

s itself to every

nobody den

a drop of me

gy clods shall beco

compends is the mea

r there is the feeling t

nch boundlessly out o

ecomes

d all shall deligh

ass is no less than the

ually perfect, and a gr

of the

d is a chef-d'oeuv

ckberry would adorn t

inge in my hand puts

ng with depress'd hea

le enough to stagger s

e gneiss, coal, long-

ins, escu

with quadrupeds

ed what is behind

hing back again

he speeding

rocks send their old he

n retreats beneath it

nd leagues off and as

ling in hollows and the

zzard houses her

slides through the

akes to the inner p

-bill'd auk sails f

scend to the nest in th

and live with animals

elf-con

look at them

at and whine abou

ake in the dark and

me sick discussin

fied, not one is deme

owning

other, nor to his kind

year

table or unhappy ov

ir relations to me

of myself, they evinc

poss

ere they get

huge times ago and n

forward then and

owing more always

enous, and the like

toward the reachers

at I love, and now go wit

a stallion, fresh and r

e forehead, wide

d supple, tail du

g wickedness, ears fine

dilate as my he

remble with pleasure as

minute, then I res

r paces when I myse

d or sit passing

ow I see it is true

'd when I loaf

d while I lay a

the beach under the pali

ts leave me, my elbo

as, my palms co

oot with

ular houses-in log huts,

turnpike, along the dr

tch or hosing rows of

savannas, trail

gging, girdling the tr

by the hot sand, hau

shallo

lks to and fro on a li

rns furiously

e suns his flabby leng

r is feedi

in his tough pimples

r is searching for ro

the mud with his p

r, over the yellow-flow

ce in its lo

'd farm house, with i

r shoots fro

rsimmon, over the lon

cate blue-

rown buckwheat, a humm

the

f the rye as it ripples

ulling myself cautious

cragged

the grass and beat throug

histling betwixt the w

in the Seventh-month

g drops thro

out of the roots of t

the

and shake away flie

dering of

h hangs in the kitchen,

where cobwebs fall in f

ash, where the press is

art beats with terrible

d balloon is floating

nd looking com

is drawn on the slip-

le-green eggs in

swims with her calf

trails hind-ways its

shark cuts like a black

rn'd brig is riding

r slimy deck, where the d

'd flag is borne at the

ttan up by the long

taract falling like a v

upon the horse-block

or enjoying picnics or

base

with blackguard gib

ances, drink

ting the sweets of the

ce throug

anting kisses for all

ties, friendly bees, hu

ird sounds his delici

creams,

ands in the barn-yard,

here the brood-cow

es to do his masculine

here the cock is

se, where geese nip thei

lengthen over the limit

lo make a crawling spr

far an

rd shimmers, where the

is curving

ull scoots by the shor

ear-hum

on a gray bench in the

high

artridges roost in a

heir he

es enter the arch'd

bark amid wastes of

wn'd heron comes to th

nd feeds upon

f swimmers and diver

rks her chromatic reed

the

itrons and cucumbers w

ck or orange glade, o

m, through the curtain

ice or pu

ive and pleas'd with t

he new

homely woman as w

ss as she puts off her bon

ne of the choir of th

nest words of the swea

seriously at t

hop-windows of Broadw

lesh of my nose on t

fternoon with my face

a lane or al

round the sides of two fr

silent and dark-cheek

s at the drap

nts studying the print

occasin

pital reaching lemonade

pse when all is still,

ery port to dick

modern crowd as eage

hate, ready in my m

my back yard, my thoughts

f Judaea with the beautif

ace, speeding through

even satellites and t

r of eighty t

meteors, throwing fir

hild that carries its own

ing, planning, lo

lling, appearing

ay and nigh

rds of spheres and

ions ripen'd and look

ghts of a fluid a

below the sound

f to material

shut me off, no

ship for a lit

ally cruise away or bri

furs and the seal,

ff, clinging to topple

d to the

late at night in

tic sea, it is pl

sphere I stretch around

of ice pass me and I p

n in all d

tains show in the dis

ncies to

ome great battle-field

be e

outposts of the encampm

eet and

by the suburbs some

n architecture more th

of the

nion, I bivouac by

m out of bed and stay

all night to my

s voice, the screech by

an's body up drip

the large hea

f present times

w the crowded and ru

Death chasing it up

and gave not back an i

and faithfu

letters on a board, B

ot dese

h them and tack'd wit

ld not gi

the drifting

-gown'd women look'd

f their prep

faced infants and the

p-lipp'd u

t tastes good, I like i

n, I suffer'd

n and calmne

ondemn'd for a witch,

ildren g

hat flags in the race

ng, cover'd

g like needles his legs

shot and t

ese I fe

slave, I wince at t

upon me, crack and ag

f the fence, my gore d

oze of

the weeds

their unwilling

beat me violently over t

one of my chan

nded person how he fee

ounded

d upon me as I lean

d fireman with b

ls buried me i

ired, I heard the yelli

ant click of their

he beams away, they t

in my red shirt, the perv

ll I lie exhausted

are the faces around m

their f

d fades with the li

and dead r

or move as the hands of

lerist, I tell of m

there

long roll of

attacking ca

tening ears the c

, I see and h

roar, the plaudits

lowly passing tra

fter damages, making

through the rent roof,

heads, stone, wood,

outh of my dying gene

with h

e clot Mind not me-mi

I knew in Texas

not the fa

ped to tell th

nd fifty are du

murder in cold blood of

youn

orm'd in a hollow squar

breast

t of the surrounding en

s the price they

s wounded and thei

honorable capitulation

heir arms and march'd

glory of the r

orse, rifle, song,

enerous, handsome, pr

, drest in the free

one over thir

morning they were bro

, it was beauti

about five o'clock

'd the comm

helpless rush, some st

hot in the temple or he

lay to

dug in the dirt, the ne

ll'd attempted

ith bayonets or batter'd

n years old seiz'd his

me to re

l torn and cover'd

ck began the burn

e murder of the four hun

ar of an old-t

o won by the light o

y grandmother's father t

ulk in his ship I t

glish pluck, and there

er was, and n

'd eve he came ho

, the yards entangle

ash'd fast wit

me eighteen pound sh

two large pieces had b

l around and blo

sun-down, fi

the full moon well up,

ve feet of w

osing the prisoners con

them a chance

om the magazine is now

range faces they do n

igate ta

asks if we d

are struck and t

, for I hear the voic

e composedly cries, we

f the f

ree guns

e captain himself again

grape and canister si

lear hi

d the fire of this lit

the ma

avely during the w

moment

the pumps, the fire eats

n shot away, it is general

ands the li

d, his voice is ne

e light to us than

in the beams of the mo

nd still lies

otionless on the br

nd slowly sinking, pre

we have

uarter-deck coldly giv

enance whit

e of the child that

old salt with long w

url'd w

ll that can be done fli

the two or three off

odies and bodies by th

the masts

of rigging, slight shoc

guns, litter of powder

overhead, silent a

ea-breeze, smells of s

th-messages given in

geon's knife, the gna

of falling blood, short

l, taperi

, these ir

here on guard! l

r'd doors they cro

esences outlaw'

prison shaped

e dull uninte

convicts shoulder their

in the morning a

handcuff'd to jail bu

walk by

one there, and more t

my twitch

aken for larceny but I

and se

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d, my sinews gnarl, awa

mselves in me and I

hat, sit shame-

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beyond my cuff'd head, s

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forget the mock

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ces on their way ov

in our hats the growt

salute you!

notations, continu

and flowing sav

civilization, or pas

sterner rais'd out-d

issippi country? Iowa

rie-life, bush-life?

men and women acc

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snow-flakes, words sim

laughter,

common features, commo

ew forms from the t

the odor of his body or

glance o

nshine I need not

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ining I have, that puls

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give I gi

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thing I ha

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nception I start bigg

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lothes toward th

ician and the

ing man and raise him

rer, here

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th tremendous bre

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me, baffle

they keep gu

cease shall dare to

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the morning you will fi

lp for the sick as th

right men I bring y

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the exact dimens

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re alive and did th

or unfledg'd birds who

sing for t

deific sketches to fil

em freely on each

ch or more in a fra

ms for him there with

g the mallet

ial revelations, consid

k of my hand just as cu

ngines and hook-and-la

e gods of the

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passing safe over cha

hole and unhurt o

fe with her babe at he

ery pers

vest whizzing in a row

ts bagg'd out a

er with red hair redeemi

sses, traveling on foo

it by him while he

e amplest strewing the

lling the sq

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more admirable t

o account, myself waiti

the su

y for me when I shall

and be as

mps! becoming a

and now to the ambush'

the midst

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my ch

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limax a

lues round

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me, but they are no

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icable query, ever th

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d bring

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with dimes on t

f the belly the brain

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ing, thrashing, and the

rece

and they the wheat

ty and I am one

he rest interests me,

wspapers

ils, banks, tariffs,

es, real estate an

nikins skipping around in

are, (they are positiv

plicates of myself, th

deathless

d say the same

flounders in me the s

ectly well my

us lines and must

you whoever you ar

f routine thi

estion, to leap beyo

d bound book-but

inting-o

graphs-but your wife o

in you

with iron, her mighty

of the captain

shes and fare and furn

and the look ou

et here or next door

sages in history-

theology-but the fa

n? and what is love

you priests, all ti

eatest of faiths and

ent and modern and all b

again upon the earth af

m oracles, honoring the

e first rock or stump,

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the streets in a phall

in the woods a

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g the serpen

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edly that h

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tiently

in my insane crisis, or

spirit ar

ment and land, or outsi

winders of the ci

tal and centrifugal ga

ing charges be

doubters dull

ing, angry, affected, di

you, I know the sea of

and un

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y flukes of doubter

e among you as m

ush of you, me, all

ed and afterward is for

the

what is untrie

n its turn prove suffi

onsider'd, each who st

gle one c

he young man who d

man who died and w

that peep'd in at the d

was never

has lived without purp

rness worse

house tubercled by rum

laughter'd and wreck'd

the ordure

floating with open mou

arth, or down in the old

myriads of spheres, nor

at inhab

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explain myself

known I

nd women forward wit

the moment-but what

xhausted trillions o

ns ahead, and trill

rought us richn

will bring us ric

l one greater

its period and pl

us or jealous upon you

they are not murdero

with me, I keep no acc

I to do with

accomplish'd, and I an

an apex of the ap

of ages, and larger bu

ravel'd, and still

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huge first Nothing, I

always, and slept thro

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hugg'd close-

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stars kept aside

ces to look after w

out of my mother g

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ransported it in their

with

steadily employ'd to

pot I stand wit

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n every mome

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fuls out of their hearts a

ing! O welcome, ineffa

ulges not only itself,

r and out

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e farthe

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outward and fo

sun and round him

partners a group o

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oppage and never

orlds, and all beneath

t reduced back to a p

avail th

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parts, any thin

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h, there is limitle

s is appointed

ere and wait till I c

the lover true for who

t of time and space, an

er will b

etual journey, (

of coat, good shoes, and

mine takes his

air, no church

o a dinner-table,

each woman of you I

hooking you r

to landscapes of contin

ne else can travel

travel it f

far, it is w

n on it since you were

everywhere on wa

r son, and I will mine,

nd free nations we s

both burdens, and res

on m

ou shall repay the

start we neve

ascended a hill and loo

it When we become the e

and knowledge of every

ll'd and sa

we but level that lift to

sking me questio

not answer, you must

while

ts to eat and her

ep and renew yourself in

iss and open the gate

e you dream'd con

the gum fro

self to the dazzle of

ment of

idly waded holding

you to be a

idst of the sea, rise

ghingly dash

teacher o

wider breast than my own p

le who learns under it

same becomes a man not

in his o

an virtuous out of

etheart, relishin

slight cutting him wors

to fight, to hit the

sing a song or p

the beard and faces pit

all la

nn'd to those that

from me, yet who

oever you are fro

your ears till yo

ings for a dollar or to

wait for

t as much as myself, I a

th, in mine it beg

again mention love or

ver translate myself at

ely stays with m

stand me go to the h

explanation, and a drop

ar, the hand-saw,

oom or school ca

little children

ic is closest to m

es his axe and jug wit

him al

in the field feels good

my words sail, I go w

and lo

amp'd or upon t

nding battle many seek me

it may be their last) th

ter's face when he lies d

of me does not mind

er and old mothe

est the needle a moment a

ould resume what

the soul is not m

hat the body is not

od, is greater to on

furlong without symp

al drest in

ss of a dime may purcha

n eye or show a bean i

rning of

e or employment but th

y become

so soft but it makes a hu

or woman, Let your soul

e a million

ankind, Be not c

ous about each am n

can say how much I am

about

n every object, yet under

who there can be more

sh to see God bet

each hour of the twenty-f

women I see God, and in

od dropt in the street,

by God

re they are, for I kno

nctually come fo

and you bitter hug of m

ry to a

hout flinching th

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sills of the exquis

let, and mark the

I think you are good ma

offe

te roses sweet-sc

lips, I reach to the po

reckon you are the le

died myself ten tho

spering there O

raves-O perpetual tra

y any thing how ca

ool that lies in

scends the steeps of

y and dusk-toss on the

in the

aning gibberish

the moon, I asce

ghastly glimmer is noo

ady and central from the

do not know what it is

ty-calm and cool th

ep-I sl

it is without name-

ny dictionary, u

ngs on more than t

is the friend whose

re. Outlines! I plead for

O my brothers

death-it is form, uni

e-it is H

nt wilt-I have fill'

fill my next fo

re! what have you

while I snuff th

else hears you, and I s

ontradic

then I contr

e, I contain

them that are nigh, I

work? who will soonest be

hes to wa

e I am gone? will you

ops by and accuses me,

nd my l

bit tamed, I too

ric yawp over the

ud of day hol

fter the rest and true as

e to the vapo

shake my white lock

in eddies, and dri

to the dirt to grow

ain look for me und

ly know who I a

good health to

r and fibre

tch me at first

one place s

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