poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse … - Walt Whitman

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

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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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"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"

I do not ask who you are, that is not important to me, You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if each and all be aware I sit content.
One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you - Walt Whitman

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