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Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 30

Part 30All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 31

Part 31I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 32

Part 32I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 33

Part 33Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at, What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass, What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed, And again as I walk'd the beach under…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 34

Part 34Now I tell what I knew in Texas in my early youth, (I tell not the fall of Alamo, Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,) 'Tis the tale…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 35

Part 35Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight? Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars? List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.Our foe was…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 36

Part 36Stretch'd and still lies the midnight, Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness, Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 37

Part 37You laggards there on guard! look to your arms! In at the conquer'd doors they crowd! I am possess'd! Embody all presences outlaw'd or suffering, See myself in prison shaped like…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 38

Part 38Enough! enough! enough! Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back! Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping, I discover myself on the verge of a usual…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 39

Part 39The friendly and flowing savage, who is he? Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian? Is he from the…