I Hear It Was Charged Against Me

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I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy
  institutions;
But really I am neither for nor against institutions;
(What indeed have I in common with them?-Or what with the
  destruction of them?)
Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These
  States, inland and seaboard,
And in the fields and woods, and above every keel, little or large,
  that dents the water,
Without edifices, or rules, or trustees, or any argument,
The institution of the dear love of comrades.

© Walt Whitman