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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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AGES AND AGES, RETURNING AT INTERVALS.
| AGES and ages, returning at intervals, |
| Undestroy'd, wandering immortal, |
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Lusty, phallic, with the potent original loins, perfectly
sweet, |
| I, chanter of Adamic songs, |
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Through the new garden, the West, the great cities
calling, |
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Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these,
offering myself, |
| Bathing myself, bathing my songs in Sex, |
| Offspring of my loins. |