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Walt Whitman

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The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1h

But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 3h

Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 5h

Sit awhile wayfarer,

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 7h

I answer that I cannot answer .... you must find out for yourself.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 9h

You are also asking me questions, and I hear you;

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 11h

And my spirit said No, we level that lift to pass and continue beyond.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 13h

And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then?

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 15h

This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 17h

For after we start we never lie by again.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 19h

And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 23h

If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

It is not far .... it is within reach,

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

You must travel it for yourself.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

My left hand hooks you round the waist,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2d

No friend of mine takes his case in my chair,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2d

My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;