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AMONG THE MULTITUDE by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: AMONG THE MEN AND WOMEN THE MULTITUDE,
Last Line: AND I WHEN I MEET YOU MEAN TO DISCOVER YOU BY THE LIKE IN YOU.

Among the men and women the multitude,
I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
Acknowledging none else, not parent, wife, husband,
brother, child, any nearer than I am,
Some are baffled, but that one is not -- that one knows me.

Ah lover and perfect equal,
I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections,
And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.



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