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Leaves of Grass.
:Voluptuous, inhabitive, combative, conscientious, alimentive, intuitive, of copious friendship, sublimity, firmness, self-esteem, comparison, individuality, form, locality, eventuality,
- Avowing by life, manners, works, to contribute illustrations of results of The States,
- Teacher of the unquenchable creed, namely, egotism,
- Inviter of others continually henceforth to try their strength against his.
34. The main shapes arise!
- Shapes of Democracy, final—result of centuries,
- Shapes of those that do not joke with life, but are in earnest with life,
- Shapes, ever projecting other shapes,
- Shapes of a hundred Free States, begetting another hundred north and south,
- Shapes of turbulent manly cities,
- Shapes of an untamed breed of young men, and natural persons,
- Shapes of the women fit for These States,
- Shapes of the composition of all the varieties of the earth,
- Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
- Shapes bracing the whole earth, and braced with the whole earth.
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