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SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest	A
I withdraw from the still woods I loved	B
I will not go now on the pastures to walk	C
I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea	D
I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew	E
me	D
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O how can it be that the ground does not sicken	F
How can you be alive you growths of spring	G
How can you furnish health you blood of herbs roots orchards	H
grain	I
Are they not continually putting distemper'd corpses within you	E
Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead	J
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Where have you disposed of their carcasses	K
Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations	L
Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat	M
I do not see any of it upon you to day or perhaps I am deceiv'd	N
I will run a furrow with my plough I will press my spade through the	O
sod and turn it up underneath	P
I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat	M
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Behold this compost behold it well	Q
Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person Yet behold	R
The grass of spring covers the prairies	S
The bean bursts noislessly through the mould in the garden	F
The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward	T
The apple buds cluster together on the apple branches	U
The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its	V
graves	W
The tinge awakes over the willow tree and the mulberry tree	D
The he birds carol mornings and evenings while the she birds sit on	X
their nests	Y
The young of poultry break through the hatch'd eggs	Z
The new born of animals appear the calf is dropt from the cow the	O
colt from the mare	A2
Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green	B2
leaves	C2
Out of its hill rises the yellow maize stalk the lilacs bloom in the	O
door yards	D2
The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata	O
of sour dead	J
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What chemistry	D
That the winds are really not infectious	E2
That this is no cheat this transparent green wash of the sea which	F2
is so amorous after me	D
That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its	V
tongues	G2
That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited	H2
themselves in it	I2
That all is clean forever and forever	J2
That the cool drink from the well tastes so good	K2
That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy	D
That the fruits of the apple orchard and of the orange orchard that	L2
melons grapes peaches plums will none of them poison me	D
That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease	S
Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a	O
catching disease	S
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Now I am terrified at the Earth it is that calm and patient	M2
It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions	L
It turns harmless and stainless on its axis with such endless	E2
successions of diseas'd corpses	U
It distils such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor	J2
It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal annual sumptuous	E2
crops	N2
It gives such divine materials to men and accepts such leavings from	O2
them at last	P2

Walt Whitman

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