...of two simple men I saw ...

...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other\'s neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
 Walt Whitman

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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