Loafe with me on the grass — loose the stop from your throat;
Not words, not music or rhyme I want — not custom or lecture, not even the best;
Only t… - Walt Whitman
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Loafe with me on the grass — loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want — not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
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Walt Whitman
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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O madly the sea pushes upon the land, With love, with love.
"Have the past struggles succeeded? What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature? Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary."
-from "Songs of the Open Road"
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