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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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WHEN I READ THE BOOK.
| WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, |
And is this, then, (said I,) what the author calls a
man's life?
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And so will some one, when I am dead and gone, write
my life?
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| (As if any man really knew aught of my life; |
Why, even I myself, I often think, know little or noth-
ing of my real life;
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Only a few hints—a few diffused, faint clues and indi-
rections,
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| I seek, for my own use, to trace out here.) |
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