The Walt Whitman Archive
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Books by Whitman
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STRONGER LESSONS.
Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and
were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you,
and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with
contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with
contempt, or dispute the passage with you?