Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand

 Whoever you are holding me now in hand,
 Without one thing all will be useless,
 I give you fair warning before you attempt me further,
 I am not what you supposed, but far different.
 
 Who is he that would become my follower?
 Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
 
 The way is suspicious, the result uncertain, perhaps destructive,
 You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your
 sole and exclusive standard,
 Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
 The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives
 around you would have to be abandon'd,
 Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let
 go your hand from my shoulders,
 Put me down and depart on your way.
 
 Or else by stealth in some wood for trial,
 Or back of a rock in the open air,
 (For in any roof'd room of a house I emerge not, nor in company,
 And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)
 But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any
 person for miles around approach unawares,
 Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or
 some quiet island,
 Here to put your (...)
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