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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

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ONE'S-SELF I SING.

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Walt Whitman·1819–1892
ne*s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. * < Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,The Modem Man I sing.