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Leaves of Grass
1867
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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
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CALAMUS.
H
ERE THE
F
RAILEST
L
EAVES OF
M
E
.
H
ERE
the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-
lasting:
Here I shade down and hide my thoughts—I do not
expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other
poems.
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Part of the cluster
CALAMUS.
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