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Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth! 

Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! 

Earth of departed sunset! 

Earth of the mountains misty-top! 

Earth of vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with 
blue! 

Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! 

Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for 
my sake! 

Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth! 

Smile, for your lover comes! 

-- passage from Leaves of Grass, 1855 Walt Whitman