THE FRAILEST LEAVES OF ME

I found a dozen lines and bits in as many pages of Calamus, aside from such longer passages as BEHOLD THIS SWARTHY FACE, I SAW IN LOUISIANA A LIVE-OAK GROWING. WE TWO BOYS TOGETHER CLINGING, A GLIMPSE, EARTH MY LIKENESS, and others.

"Resolved to sing no songs to-day but those of manly attachment,"

"Come, I am determined to unbare this broad breast of mine-I have long enough stifled and choked:

Emblematic and capricious blade, I leave you-now you serve me not;

Away! I will say what I have to say, by itself,

I will escape from the sham that was proposed to me,

I will sound myself and comrades only-I will never again utter a call, only their call,

I will raise, with it, immortal reverberations through The States,

I will give an example to lovers, to take permanent shape and will through The States;"

"See the philosophies all-Christian churches and tenets see,

Yet underneath Socrates clearly see-and underneath Christ the divine I see The dear love of man for his comrade-the attachment of friend to friend,"

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