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"poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you"

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About Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was an American poet and essayist best known for Leaves of Grass. His free-verse style and expansive voice reshaped modern poetry in English.

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