The Walt Whitman Archive
Published Works
Books by Whitman
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26.
WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going—North and South
excursions making,
excursions making,
Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutch-
ing,
ing,
Armed and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, lov-
ing,
ing,
No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldier-
ing, thieving, threatening,
ing, thieving, threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing,
water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach
dancing,
water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach
dancing,
With birds singing—With fishes swimming—With
trees branching and leafing,
trees branching and leafing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking,
feebleness chasing,
feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.