You have not known what you are — you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What y… - Walt Whitman

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You have not known what you are — you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life;
Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time;
What you have done returns already in mockeries;
Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?
The mockeries are not you;
Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk;