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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

HERE THE FRAILEST LEAVES OF ME.

HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest- 
 lasting: Here I shade and hide my thoughts—I myself do not  
 expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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