I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am…

Walt Whitman
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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. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.8, NYU Press
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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. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.8, NYU Press

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