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Leaves of Grass 154Book 17 · Chapter 1

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Literature · Poetry

Leaves of Grass 154

Book 17 · Chapter 1

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Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal.
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.
By every life a share or more or less, None born but it is born, conceal’d or unconceal’d the seed is waiting.

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Leaves of Grass 155

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