Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass

A Walt Whitman Collection

Book I. Inscriptions

Still Though the One I Sing

Still though the one I sing,
(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,
I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O
     quenchless, indispensable fire!)