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What do you seek, so pensive and silent?What do you need, Camerado?
Dear son! do you think it is love?
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Listen, dear son—listen, America, daughter or son!It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess—and yet it satisfies—it is great;
But there is something else very great—it makes the whole coincide;
It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands, sweeps and provides for all.
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |