The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself. β¨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.20, NYU Press
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- There will never be any more perfection than there is now. β¨ Walt Whitman (1855). Leaves of Grass, p.14
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- I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots. β¨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textua β¦ βΆ
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