Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 The soul,
 Forever and forever--longer than soil is brown and solid--longer
 than water ebbs and flows.
 I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the
 most spiritual poems,
 And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
 For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and
 of immortality.
 
 I will make a song for these States that no one State may under any
 circumstances be subjected to another State,
 And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by
 night between all the States, and between any two of them,
 And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of
 weapons with menacing points,
 And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces;
 And a song make I of the One form'd out of all,
 The fang'd and glittering One whose head is over all,
 Resolute warlike One including and over all,
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