Literature · Poetry

Leaves of Grass 5

Book 2 · Chapter 4

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Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North, Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own off-spring, Surround them East and West, for they would surround you, And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.

I conn’d old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.

In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique? Why these are the children of the antique to justify it.

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Literature · Poetry

Leaves of Grass 5

Book 2 · Chapter 4

WhitmanEnglish

I conn’d old times, I sat studying at the feet of the great masters, Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.

In the name of these States shall I scorn the antique? Why these are the children of the antique to justify it.

Spotted a mistake or have an idea?

Leaves of Grass 5Book 2 · Chapter 4

Leaves of Grass 5

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Leaves of Grass 5Book 2 · Chapter 4

Leaves of Grass 5

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