“I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or
wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.”

—  Walt Whitman, book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

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American poet, essayist and journalist 1819–1892

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