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 | Leaves of grass (1872) |  |
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Weapon, shapely, naked, wan!Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and lip only one!
Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced from a little seed sown!
Resting the grass amid and upon,
To be lean'd, and to lean on.
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Strong shapes, and attributes of strong shapes—masculine trades, sights and sounds;Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music;
Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |