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Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman
(18191892).
Leaves of Grass.
1900.
315
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Inscription
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is the theme of the following Chant, yet the greatestnamely, Ones-Selfthat wondrous thing a simple, separate person. That, for the use of the New World, I sing.
Mans physiology complete, from top to toe, I sing. Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for the muse;I say the Form complete is worthier far. The female equal with the male, I sing,
Nor cease at the theme of Ones-Self. I speak the word of the modern, the word En-Masse:
My Days I sing, and the Landswith interstice I knew of hapless War.
O friend whoeer you are, at last arriving hither to commence, I feel through every leaf the pressure of your hand, which I return. And thus upon our journey linkd together let us go.
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