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LEAVES OF GRASS': TITLE PAGE by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: COME, SAID MY SOUL
Last Line: Singing for Soul and Body, set to them my name
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
Come, said my Soul,
Such verses for my Body let us write (for we are one),
That should I after death invisibly 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 pleased smile I may keep on,
Ever and ever yet the verses owing''"as, first-I here and now,
Singing for Soul and Body, set to them my name.



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