Leaves of Grass, Preface
1819-1892
Come, said my soul,
Such verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)
That should I after return,
Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,
There to some group of mates the chants resuming,
(Tallying Earth's soil, trees, winds, tumultuous waves,)
Ever with pleas'd smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owning--as, first, I here and now
Signing for Soul and Body, set to them my name,
Walt Whitman
DayPoems Poem No. 1874
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1874.html">Leaves of Grass, Preface by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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