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p.44

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood
I see that the elementary laws never apologise…
I exist as I am, that is enough
If no other in the world be aware I sit content…
I know the amplitude of time
The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains
of hell are with me.

 

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p.31

Who need be afraid of the merge?
Undrape… you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded.

 

Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass

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