I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within …

Walt Whitman
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.288, NYU Press
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.288, NYU Press

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