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Walt Whitman
@skeetsofgrass.bsky.social
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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 · 12m
And in due time you shall repay the same service to me;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 4h
If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 6h
Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 8h
Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 10h
Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 12h
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 14h
It is not far .... it is within reach,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 16h
You must travel it for yourself.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 18h
Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 20h
My right hand points to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 22h
My left hand hooks you round the waist,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
I lead no man to a dinner-table or library or exchange,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
I have no chair, nor church nor philosophy;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
No friend of mine takes his case in my chair,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
My signs are a rain-proof coat and good shoes and a staff cut from the woods;
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
I tramp a perpetual journey,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
I know I have the best of time and space – and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
Our rendezvous is fitly appointed .... God will be there and wait till we come.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
Count ever so much .... there is limitless time around that.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
See ever so far .... there is limitless space outside of that,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
They are but parts .... any thing is but a part.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d
A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient,
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2d
And as surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2d
We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
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