I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. ✨ …

Walt Whitman
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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.2, NYU Press
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