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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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GODS.
LOVER divine and perfect Comrade, |
Waiting content, invisible yet, but certain, |
Thou, thou, the Ideal Man, |
Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving, |
Complete in body and dilate in spirit, |
O Death, (for Life has served its turn,) |
Opener and usher to the heavenly mansion, |
Aught, aught of mightiest, best I see, conceive, or know, |
(To break the stagnant tie—thee, thee to free, O soul,) |
All great ideas, the races' aspirations, |
All heroisms, deeds of rapt enthusiasts, |
Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous, |
Or some fair shape I viewing, worship, |
Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night, |
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