Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
possibly talking about words and thoughts we wish to share with the deceased - usually there is something unsaid
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- Jun 2018
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If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
Asserts that everything turns back to nature - with the possibilty of being turned into something else
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Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.
I think this is Witman again equating "I" with humanity itself... I like how he says "this is more than churches or bibles or creeds." Implies there is a general human understanding that we have a purpose and an inert spirituality
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