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Leaves of Grass.
:They seem to me like Nature at last, (America has given birth to them, and I have also;)
- They seem to me at last as perfect as the animals, and as the rocks and weeds—fitted to them,
- Fitted to the sky, to float with floating clouds—to rustle among the trees with rustling leaves,
- To stretch with stretched and level waters, where ships silently sail in the distance,
3. What do you suppose Creation is?
- What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
- What do you suppose I have intimated to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
- And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
- And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?
- And that you or any one must approach Creations through such laws?
1. Poets to come!
- Not to-day is to justify me, and Democracy, and what we are for,
- But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,
- You must justify me.
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