It is in his walk . . the carriage of his neck . . the flex of his waist and knees . . . . dress does not hide him,
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1855 Leaves of Grass, little by little, over and over.
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It is in his limbs and joints also . . . . it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
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The expression of a wellmade man appears not only in his face,
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The male is perfect and that of the female is perfect.
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The expression of the body of man or woman balks account,
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And whether those who defiled the living were as bad as they who defiled the dead?
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Was it dreamed whether those who corrupted their own live bodies could conceal themselves?
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They will not let me off nor I them till I go with them and respond to them and love them.
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THE bodies of men and women engirth me, and I engirth them,
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Leaves of Grass.
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Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
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Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
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I will duly pass the day O my mother and duly return to you;
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I will stop only a time with the night . . . . and rise betimes.
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I know not how I came of you, and I know not where I go with you . . . . but I know I came well and shall go well.
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I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long:
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I am not afraid . . . . I have been well brought forward by you;
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Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
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I stay awhile away O night, but I return to you again and love you;
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I too pass from the night;
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They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night and awake.
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The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,
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Stiflings and passages open . . . . the paralysed become supple,
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The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
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The sweatings and fevers stop . . the throat that was unsound is sound . . the lungs of the consumptive are resumed . . the poor distressed head is free,
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The felon steps forth from the prison . . . . the insane becomes sane . . . . the suffering of sick persons is relieved,
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The call of the slave is one with the master's call . . and the master salutes the slave,
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The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar . . . . the wronged is made right,
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The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man . . . . friend is inarmed by friend,
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The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
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The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love . . . . and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
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The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover . . . . they press close without lust . . . . his lips press her neck,
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Learned and unlearned are hand in hand . . and male and female are hand in hand;
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The Asiatic and African are hand in hand . . . . the European and American are hand in hand,
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They flow hand in hand over the whole earth from east to west as they lie unclothed;
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The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
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The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite . . . . they unite now.
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The sleepers that lived and died wait . . . . the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,
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The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
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