The Essential Works of Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman

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To be lost if it must be so!

       To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!

       With one brief hour of madness and joy.

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      Out of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,

       Whispering I love you, before long I die,

       I have travel’d a long way merely to look on you to touch you,

       For I could not die till I once look’d on you,

       For I fear’d I might afterward lose you.

      Now we have met, we have look’d, we are safe,

       Return in peace to the ocean my love,

       I too am part of that ocean my love, we are not so much separated,

       Behold the great rondure, the cohesion of all, how perfect!

       But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us,

       As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever;

       Be not impatient — a little space — know you I salute the air, the

       ocean and the land,

       Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.

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      Ages and ages returning at intervals,

       Undestroy’d, wandering immortal,

       Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly sweet,

       I, chanter of Adamic songs,

       Through the new garden the West, the great cities calling,

       Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself,

       Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex,

       Offspring of my loins.

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      We two, how long we were fool’d,

       Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes,

       We are Nature, long have we been absent, but now we return,

       We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark,

       We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks,

       We are oaks, we grow in the openings side by side,

       We browse, we are two among the wild herds spontaneous as any,

       We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,

       We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings

       and evenings,

       We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals,

       We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,

       We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic

       and stellar, we are as two comets,

       We prowl fang’d and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,

       We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,

       We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling

       over each other and interwetting each other,

       We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,

       We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence

       of the globe,

       We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,

       We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.

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      O hymen! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?

       O why sting me for a swift moment only?

       Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?

       Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would

       soon certainly kill me?

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      I am he that aches with amorous love;

       Does the earth gravitate? does not all matter, aching, attract all matter?

       So the body of me to all I meet or know.

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      Native moments — when you come upon me — ah you are here now,

       Give me now libidinous joys only,

       Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,

       To-day I go consort with Nature’s darlings, to-night too,

       I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight

       orgies of young men,

       I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,

       The echoes ring with our indecent calls, I pick out some low person

       for my dearest friend,

       He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate, he shall be one condemn’d by

       others for deeds done,

       I will play a part no longer, why

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