Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Calamus poems : from Leaves of Grass (1860)
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HERE my last words, and the most baffling,
Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest lasting,
Here I shade down and hide my thoughts -- I do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.


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