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Part 37You laggards there on guard! look to your arms! In at the conquer’d doors they crowd! I am possess’d! Embody all presences outlaw’d or suffering, See myself in prison shaped like another man, And feel the dull unintermitted pain.For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch, It is I let out in the morning and barr’d at night.Not a mutineer walks handcuff’d to jail but I am handcuff’d to him and walk by his side, (I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.)Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp but I also lie at the last gasp, My face is ash-color’d, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them, I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.

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Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 33

  • Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 33

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  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
  • African Americans by the Numbers
  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales