Leaves of Grass (1867)


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NOT MY ENEMIES EVER INVADE ME.

NOT my enemies ever invade me—no harm to my pride from
         them I fear;
But the lovers I recklessly love—lo! how they master me!
Lo! me, ever open and helpless, bereft of my strength!
Utterly abject, grovelling on the ground before them.
 
 
 
 
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