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Leaves of Grass.
:These affording, in all their particulars, endless feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
- Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
- How can I but, as here, chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of These States?
- Respondez! Respondez!
- Let every one answer! Let those who sleep be waked! Let none evade—not you, any more than others!
- (If it really be as is pretended, how much longer must we go on with our affectations and sneaking?
- Let me bring this to a close—I pronounce openly for a new distribution of roles,)
- Let that which stood in front go behind! and let that which was behind advance to the front and speak!
- Let murderers, thieves, bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions!
- Let the old propositions be postponed!
- Let faces and theories be turned inside out I Let meanings be freely criminal, as well as results!
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