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Walt Whitman

@TweetsOfGrass

1855 Leaves of Grass, little by little, over and over.

Under your boot-soles Katılım Haziran 2011
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The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,
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This man was of wonderful vigor and calmness and beauty of person;
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I knew a man . . . . he was a common farmer . . . . he was the father of five sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons . . . and in them were the fathers of sons.
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And swim with the swimmer, and wrestle with wrestlers, and march in line with the firemen, and pause and listen and count.
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Suchlike I love . . . . I loosen myself and pass freely . . . . and am at the mother's breast with the little child,
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The natural perfect and varied attitudes . . . . the bent head, the curved neck, the counting:
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The slow return from the fire . . . . the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again—the listening on the alert,
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The march of firemen in their own costumes—the play of the masculine muscle through cleansetting trowsers and waistbands,
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The upperhold and underhold—the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
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The coats vests and caps thrown down . . the embrace of love and resistance,
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The wrestle of wrestlers . . two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, goodnatured, nativeborn, out on the vacant lot at sundown after work,
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The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,
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The female soothing a child . . . . the farmer's daughter in the garden or cowyard,
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The group of laborers seated at noontime with their open dinnerkettles, and their wives waiting,
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Girls and mothers and housekeepers in all their exquisite offices,
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The bending forward and backward of rowers in rowboats . . . . the horseman in his saddle;
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Framers bare-armed framing a house . . hoisting the beams in their places . . or using the mallet and mortising-chisel,
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The swimmer naked in the swimmingbath . . seen as he swims through the salt transparent greenshine, or lies on his back and rolls silently with the heave of the water;
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