Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass (1872)
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(31) What do you seek, so pensive and silent?
What do you need, Camerado?
Dear son! do you think it is love?
(32) Listen, dear son -- listen, America, daughter or son!
It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess
-- and yet it satisfies -- it is great;
But there is something else very great -- it makes the
whole coincide;
It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous
hands, sweeps and provides for all.