...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd…

Walt Whitman
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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms. ✨ Walt Whitman (1868). Poems, p.293
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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms. ✨ Walt Whitman (1868). Poems, p.293

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