Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
1819 to 1892
Track 1
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I ______ you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me ______ good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a ______ of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of ______ born here from parents the same, and their parents ______ same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
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