Walt Whitman
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Leaves of Grass

A Walt Whitman Collection

Preface

Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
That should I after return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth`s soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
Ever with pleas`d smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,