I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a ste…

Walt Whitman
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I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.324, NYU Press
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I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.324, NYU Press

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