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COME closer to me	A
Push close my lovers and take the best I possess	B
Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess	B
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This is unfinish'd business with me How is it with you	C
I was chill'd with the cold types cylinder wet paper between us	D
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Male and Female	E
I pass so poorly with paper and types I must pass with the contact	F
of bodies and souls	G
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American masses	H
I do not thank you for liking me as I am and liking the touch of	I
me I know that it is good for you to do so	J
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This is the carol of occupations	K
In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments	L
And find the eternal meanings	M
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Workmen and Workwomen	N
Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of	I
me what would it amount to	C
Were I as the head teacher charitable proprietor wise statesman	N
what would it amount to	C
Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you would that	O
satisfy you	C
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The learn'd virtuous benevolent and the usual terms	P
A man like me and never the usual terms	P
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Neither a servant nor a master am I	Q
I take no sooner a large price than a small price I will have my	Q
own whoever enjoys me	A
I will be even with you and you shall be even with me	A
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If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the	R
same shop	S
If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as	T
good as your brother or dearest friend	U
If your lover husband wife is welcome by day or night I must be	A
personally as welcome	V
If you become degraded criminal ill then I become so for your	W
sake	X
If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds do you think I	Q
cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds	Y
If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of the	R
table	Z
If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her why I	Q
often meet strangers in the street and love them	A2
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Why what have you thought of yourself	B2
Is it you then that thought yourself less	B
Is it you that thought the President greater than you	C
Or the rich better off than you or the educated wiser than you	C
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Because you are greasy or pimpled or that you were once drunk or a	R
thief	C2
Or diseas'd or rheumatic or a prostitute or are so now	N
Or from frivolity or impotence or that you are no scholar and never	D2
saw your name in print	E2
Do you give in that you are any less immortal	Z
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Souls of men and women it is not you I call unseen unheard	F2
untouchable and untouching	X
It is not you I go argue pro and con about and to settle whether you	C
are alive or no	N
I own publicly who you are if nobody else owns	G2
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Grown half grown and babe of this country and every country in	N
doors and out doors one just as much as the other I see	A
And all else behind or through them	A2
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The wife and she is not one jot less than the husband	H2
The daughter and she is just as good as the son	N
The mother and she is every bit as much as the father	D2
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Offspring of ignorant and poor boys apprenticed to trades	I2
Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms	J2
Sailor men merchant men coasters immigrants	L
All these I see but nigher and farther the same I see	A
None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me	A
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I bring what you much need yet always have	K2
Not money amours dress eating but as good	L2
I send no agent or medium offer no representative of value but	M2
offer the value itself	B2
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There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually	A
It is not what is printed preach'd discussed it eludes discussion	N
and print	E2
It is not to be put in a book it is not in this book	X
It is for you whoever you are it is no farther from you than your	W
hearing and sight are from you	C
It is hinted by nearest commonest readiest it is ever provoked by	Q
them	A2
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You may read in many languages yet read nothing about it	N2
You may read the President's Message and read nothing about it	N2
there	O2
Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury	A
department or in the daily papers or the weekly papers	P2
Or in the census or revenue returns prices current or any accounts	Q2
of stock	X
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The sun and stars that float in the open air	O2
The apple shaped earth and we upon it surely the drift of them is	R2
something grand	S2
I do not know what it is except that it is grand and that it is	R2
happiness	D
And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or	W
bon mot or reconnoissance	D
And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us	D
and without luck must be a failure for us	D
And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain	N
contingency	D
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The light and shade the curious sense of body and identity the	R
greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things the	R
endless pride and out stretching of man unspeakable joys and	H2
sorrows	D
The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees and the wonders	D
that fill each minute of time forever	D2
What have you reckon'd them for camerado	H2
Have you reckon'd them for a trade or farm work or for the profits	D
of a store	W
Or to achieve yourself a position or to fill a gentleman's leisure	D2
or a lady's leisure	D2
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Have you reckon'd the landscape took substance and form that it might	H2
be painted in a picture	D2
Or men and women that they might be written of and songs sung	X
Or the attraction of gravity and the great laws and harmonious	D
combinations and the fluids of the air as subjects for the	R
savans	D
Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts	D
Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names	D
Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables or	W
agriculture itself	B2
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Old institutions these arts libraries legends collections and	H2
the practice handed along in manufactures will we rate them so	D
high	Q
Will we rate our cash and business high I have no objection	N
I rate them as high as the highest then a child born of a woman and	H2
man I rate beyond all rate	H2
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We thought our Union grand and our Constitution grand	H2
I do not say they are not grand and good for they are	T2
I am this day just as much in love with them as you	C
Then I am in love with you and with all my fellows upon the earth	U2
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We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not	H2
divine	N
I say they have all grown out of you and may grow out of you still	V2
It is not they who give the life it is you who give the life	W2
Leaves are not more shed from the trees or trees from the earth	U2
than they are shed out of you	C
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When the psalm sings instead of the singer	D2
When the script preaches instead of the preacher	D2
When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved	H2
the supporting desk	X
When I can touch the body of books by night or by day and when they	X2
touch my body back again	N
When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child	H2
convince	D
When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night watchman's	D
daughter	D2
When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly	D
companions	D
I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of	I
men and women like you	C
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The sum of all	Y2

Walt Whitman

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