Literature · Poetry

Leaves of Grass 116

Book 8 · Chapter 8

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Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm’d Manhattan? River and sunset and scallop-edg’d waves of flood-tide? The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter? What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as approach? What is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face? Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?

We understand then do we not? What I promis’d without mentioning it, have you not accepted? What the study could not teach--what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish’d, is it not?

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Literature · Poetry

Leaves of Grass 116

Book 8 · Chapter 8

WhitmanEnglish

We understand then do we not? What I promis’d without mentioning it, have you not accepted? What the study could not teach--what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplish’d, is it not?

Spotted a mistake or have an idea?

Leaves of Grass 116Book 8 · Chapter 8

Leaves of Grass 116

Leaves of Grass 117

Leaves of Grass 116Book 8 · Chapter 8

Leaves of Grass 116

Leaves of Grass 117