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Leaves of Grass.

Of their languages, phrenology, government, coins, medals, marriage, literature, products, games, jurisprudence, wars, manners, amativeness, crimes,

prisons, slaves, heroes, poets, I suspect their results curiously await in the yet unseen world — counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world,

I suspect I shall meet them there,

I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.

KOSMOS.

Who includes diversity, and is Nature,

Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also.

Who has not looked forth from the windows, the eyes, for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing ;

Who contains believers and disbelievers — Who is the most majestic lover ;

Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the sesthetic, or intellectual,

Who, having considered the body, finds all its organs and parts good ;

Who, out of the theory of the earth, and of his or her body, understands by subtle analogies, the theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of These States:

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