My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole …

Walt Whitman
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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.175, NYU Press
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