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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me.

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting:
Here I shade and hide my thoughts—I myself do not expose them,
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.




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