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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books

PREFACE TO LEAVES OF GRASS
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To him the other continents arrive as contributions ...

he gives them reception for their sake and his own sake.

His spirit responds to his country's spirit ...

he incarnates its geography and natural life and rivers and lakes.

Mississippi with annual freshets and changing chutes, Missouri and Columbia and Ohio and St.Lawrence with the Falls and beautiful masculine Hudson, do not embouchure where they spend themselves more than they embouchure into him.


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