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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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FOR HIM I SING.
I raise the Present on the Past, |
(As some perennial tree, out of its roots, the present on
the past:)
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With time and space I him dilate—and fuse the im-
mortal laws,
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To make himself, by them, the law unto himself. |
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