"Victory, union, faith, identity, time, The indissoluble co… - Walt Whitman

"Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.

This, then, is life;
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions."

-from "Starting from Paumanok"

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Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.

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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.

I am he who walks the States with a barb'd tongue, questioning every one I meet,

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It is always to leave the best untold."

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