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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

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Beautiful Women

Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.

Mother and Babe

I see the sleeping babe nestling the breast of its mother, The sleeping mother and babe—hush’d, I study them long and long.

Thought

Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.

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