Leaves of Grass (1860)


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6.

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not
         the resumé;
Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were
         not less complete than my poems;
As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly
         be as lasting as my poems;
As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of
         all the lives of heroes.
 
 
 
 
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