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Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,) Cease not your moaning you fierce old mother,...

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I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.

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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

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And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird. ...

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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me And why should I not speak to you

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Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

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That sport'st amid the lightning-flash and thunder-cloud, In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my soul,...

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Then to the third—a face nor child nor old, very calm, as of beautiful yellow-white ivory,...

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From the beach the child holding the hand of her father, Those burial clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,...

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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.

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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

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I cease my song for thee, From my gaze on thee in the west, fronting the west, communing with thee,...

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Over the tree-tops I float thee a song, Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the...

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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)

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...The city fireman-the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square, The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring, The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets-the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders, and their execution, The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors, if the fire smoulders under them, The crowd with their lit faces, watching-the glare and dense shadows;....

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