by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Here the frailest leaves of me, and yet...
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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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- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Here the frailest leaves of me", appears in Leaves of Grass, first published 1900 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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