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For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Hoping to cease not till death. Nature without check with original energy. – Walt Whitman. Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing that thy living touch is upon all my limbs.
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