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LEAVES OF GRASS

LEAVES OF GRASS

BY

WALT WHITMAN

From the text of the edition authorized and
editorially supervised by his literary
executors, Richard Maurice Bucke,
Thomas B. Harned, and
Horace L. Traubel

EDITED BY

EMORY HOLLOWAY

GARDEN CITY

NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

COPYRIGHT

1855, 1856, 1860, 1867, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1888, 1891

BY WALT WHITMAN

COPYRIGHT
1897

BY RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE

THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL
LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN

COPYRIGHT
1902

BY THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL
SURVIVING LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN

COPYRIGHT
1924

BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

AT

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS. GARDEN CITY. N. Y.

COME, SAID MY SOUL,

SUCH VERSES For my body let us write, (for we are one,)
THAT SHOULD I AFTER DEATH INVISIBLY RETURN,

OR, LONG, LONG HENCE, IN OTHER spheres,

THERE TO SOME GROUP OF MATES THE CHANTS RESUMING,

(TALLYING EARTH'S SOIL, TREES, WINDS, TUMULTUOUS WAVES,) EVER WITH PLEAS'D SMILE I MAY KEEP ON,

EVER AND EVER YET THE VERSES OWNING-AS, FIRST, I HERE AND NOW, SIGNING FOR SOUL AND BODY, SET TO THEM MY NAME,

Wall-Whitman

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