The Walt Whitman Archive
Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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ONE'S-SELF I SING.
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ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,
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Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
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Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
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Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I
say the Form complete is worthier far,
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The Female equally with the Male I sing.
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Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
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Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
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