"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 than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven."
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself" (6) (1855β1881)
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