Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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32

 I 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 not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
 They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
 Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of
 owning things,
 Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of
 years ago,
 Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
 
 So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
 They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their
 possession.
 
 I wonder where they get those tokens,
 Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
 
 Myself moving forward then (...)
(......)