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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 8 of 382 · Inscriptions

For Him I Sing

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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,) With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws, To make himself by them the law unto himself.

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