Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass

A Walt Whitman Collection

Book I. Inscriptions

One's Self I Sing

One`s-self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.

Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say
     the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.

Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form`d under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.