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What is the Grass?
-walt whitman

A child said, What is the grass?
fetching it to me with full hands;

How could I answer the child?. . . .
I do not know what it
is any more thanhe.



I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.



Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,

A scented gift and remembrance designedly dropped,

Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we

may see and remark, and say Whose?



Or I guess the grass is itself a child. . . .the produced babe

of the vegetation.



Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow

zones,

Growing among black folks as among white,

Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the

same, I receive them the same.
 

What is the Grass?
-walt whitman

landscapes II - Donna L. Maxwell    

"Private collection " Thank you!

 

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