The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. ✨ Walt Whitm…

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.456, NYU Press
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything. ✨ Walt Whitman (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867, p.456, NYU Press

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