Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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| 1 IS reform needed? Is it through you? |
| The greater the reform needed, the greater the person-
ality you need to accomplish it. |
| 2 You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes,
blood, complexion, clean and sweet? |
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| Do you not see how it would serve to have such a Body
and Soul, that when you enter the crowd, an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, everyone is impress'd with your per- sonality? |
| 3 O the magnet! the flesh over and over! |
| Go, dear friend! if need be, give up all else, and com-
mence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness; |
| Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your
own personality. |