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Leaves of grass.

  
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CONTENTS.
  
INSCRIPTION.

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STARTING FROM PAUMANOK.
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WALT WHITMAN.
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CHILDREN OF ADAM.
  
EXCELSIOR.
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CALAMUS.
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SALUT AU MONDE!
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WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
BEGINNERS.
  
TESTS.
  
PERFECTIONS.
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SONG OF THE BROAD-AXE.
  
WITH ANTECEDENTS.
  
SAVANTISM.
  
CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
  
TO A FOIL'D REVOLTER OR REVOLTRESS.
  
TO GET BETIMES IN BOSTON TOWN.
  
TO A COMMON PROSTITUTE.
  
TO A PUPIL.
  
TO RICH GIVERS.
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A WORD OUT OF THE SEA.
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A LEAF OF FACES.
  
STRONGER LESSONS.
  
EUROPE, The 72d and 73d Years of These States.
  
THOUGHT.
  
THE RUNNER.
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TO THE SAYERS OF WORDS.
  
LONGINGS FOR HOME.
  
TO A PRESIDENT.
  
WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION.
  
TO OTHER LANDS.
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SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.
  
TO THE STATES, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad.
  
TO A CERTAIN CANTATRICE.
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TO WORKINGMEN.
  
DEBRIS.
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
AMERICAN FEUILLAGE.
  
MANNAHATTA.
  
To You.
  
FRANCE, The 18th Year of These States.
  
A HAND-MIRROR.
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THOUGHTS.
  
TO HIM THAT WAS CRUCIFIED.
  
TO OLD AGE.
  
TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE.
  
TO YOU.
  
UNNAMED LANDS.
  
KOSMOS.
  
WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
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SAYS.
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DESPAIRING CRIES.
  
PICTURE.
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POEMS OF JOY.
  
RESPONDEZ!
  
THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE.
  
LEAFLETS.
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
VISOR'D.
  
NOT THE PILOT.
  
AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME.
  
PICTURE.
  
GREAT ARE THE MYTHS.
  
NOW LIST TO MY MORNING'S ROMANZA.
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BURIAL.
  
THIS COMPOST!
  
I HEAR AMERICA SINGING.
  
Manhattan's Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering.
  
I WAS LOOKING A LONG WHILE.
  
THE INDICATIONS.
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LEAVES OF GRASS.
  
ME IMPERTURBE.
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SLEEP-CHASINGS.
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ELEMENTAL DRIFTS.
  
MIRACLES.
  
YOU FELONS ON TRIAL IN COURTS.
  
MEDIUMS.
  
NOW LIFT ME CLOSE.
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WALT WHITMAN'S DRUM -TAPS. New-York. 1865.
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SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS. (SINCE THE PRECEDING CAME FROM THE PRESS.) WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM'D. AND OTHER PIECES.WASHINGTON. 1865-6.
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LEAVES OF GRASS. SONGS BEFORE PARTING.

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31   You, where you are!
You daughter or son of England!
You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you      Russ in Russia!
You dim-descended, black, divine-soul'd African, large,      fine-headed, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on      equal terms with me!
You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you      Prussian!
You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands!
You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohe-     mian! farmer of Styria!
You neighbor of the Danube!
You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the      Weser! you working-woman too!
You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon!      Wallachian! Bulgarian!
You citizen of Prague! Roman! Neapolitan! Greek!
You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!
You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or      Caucasus!
You Bokh horse-herd, watching your mares and stal-     lions feeding!
You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the sad-     dle, shooting arrows to the mark!
You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tar-     tar of Tartary!
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You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
You Jew journeying in your old age through every      risk, to stand once on Syrian ground!
You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!
You thoughtful Armenian, pondering by some stream      of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins      of Nineveh! you ascending Mount Ararat!
You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle      of the minarets of Mecca!
You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Babelman-     deb, ruling your families and tribes!
You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Naz-     areth, Damascus, or Lake Tiberias!
You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or bargaining      in the shops of Lassa!
You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagas-     car, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!
All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Austra-     lia, indifferent of place!
All you on the numberless islands of the archipela-     goes of the sea!
And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me!
And you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not,      but include just the same!
Health to you! Good will to you all — from me and      America sent.
32  Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless — each of us with his or her right      upon the earth;
Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth;
Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
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