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 | Leaves of grass (1872) |  |
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What are you doing, young man?Are you so earnest—so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
These ostensible realities, politics, points?
Your ambition or business, whatever it may be?
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It is well—Against such I say not a word—I am their poet also;19
For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
Any more than such are to Religion.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |