O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with…

Walt Whitman
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O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.406, NYU Press
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