Walt Whitman
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The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.
And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain .... and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
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Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
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He walks among the Congress .... and one representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
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He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
about 7 hours ago
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And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
about 9 hours ago
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And he says Good day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugarfield;
about 11 hours ago
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He says indifferently and alike, How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
about 13 hours ago
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One part does not counteract another part .... He is the joiner .. he sees how they join.
about 15 hours ago
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He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men .. and any man translates .. and any man translates himself also:
about 17 hours ago
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Every existence has its idiom .... every thing has an idiom and tongue;
about 19 hours ago
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The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
about 21 hours ago
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His welcome is universal .... the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
about 23 hours ago
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He has the passkey of hearts .... to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
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Whichever the sex ... whatever the season or place he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
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He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
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Books friendships philosophers priests action pleasure pride beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction;
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It is vain to skulk .... Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?
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A man is a summons and challenge,
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What can be answered he answers, and what cannot be answered he shows how it cannot be answered.
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He is the answerer,
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He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations employment and politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
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He puts today out of himself with plasticity and love,
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He puts things in their attitudes,
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The ships in the offing .... the perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for any body.
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Nothing for any one but what is for him .... near and far are for him,
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The noblest and costliest cities .... others grading and building, and he domiciles there;
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The best farms. .... others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
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All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will buy,
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The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean,
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Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people and animals,
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Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
3 days ago
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Him they accept .... in him lave .... in him perceive themselves as amid light,
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Him all wait for .... him all yield up to .... his word is decisive and final,
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And I answered for his brother and for men .... and I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.
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And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
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Tell him to send me the signs.
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How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
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A young man came to me with a message from his brother,
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The justified mother of men!
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The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go!
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The melodious character of the earth!
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Her grandsons raised the flax, and her granddaughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
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Her ample gown is of creamhued linen,
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The sun just shines on her old white head.
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She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse,
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She looks out from her quaker cap .... her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
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Behold a woman!
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Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
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I heard what the run of poets were saying so long,
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I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
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