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<Author>Whitman, Walt</Author>
<Title>Leaves of Grass (1891-1892)</Title>
<Edition>Complete Poetry and Collected Prose. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1982.</Edition>
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<Date>1855-1892</Date>
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<div1 type=poem><div1.title>Inscriptions</div1.title>
<l>One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, </l>
<l>Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. </l>
<l>Of physiology from top to toe I sing, </l>
<l>Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, </l>
<l>The Female equally with the Male I sing. </l>
<l>Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, </l>
<l>Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine, </l>
<l>The Modern Man I sing. </l>
</div1><div1 type=poem><div1.title>As I Ponder'd in Silence</div1.title>
<l>As I ponder'd in . . .