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What will be, will be well—for what is, is well,To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
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The sky continues beautiful,The pleasure of men with women shall never be sated, nor the pleasure of women with men, nor the pleasure from poems,
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Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,
The earth is not an echo—man and his life, and all the things of his life, are well-consider'd.
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You are not thrown to the winds—you gather certainly and safely around yourself;Yourself! Yourself! Yourself, forever and ever!
| Leaves of grass (1872) | |