Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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19

 This is the meal equally set, this the meat for natural hunger,
 It is for the wicked just same as the righteous, I make appointments
 with all,
 I will not have a single person slighted or left away,
 The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
 The heavy-lipp'd slave is invited, the venerealee is invited;
 There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
 
 This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
 This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,
 This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
 This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
 
 Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
 Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the
 side of a rock has.
 
 Do you take it I would astonish?
 Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering
 through the woods?
 Do I astonish more than they?
 
 This hour I tell things in confidence,
 I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.