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Walt Whitman

Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results,

promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the

seminal milk,
All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves,

beauties, delights of the earth,
All the governments, judges, gods, followed persons of the

earth,
These are contained in sex as parts of itself and

justifications of itself.
Without shame the man I like knows and avows the

deliciousness of his sex,
Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.

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