<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535136" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Souvenirs Of Democracy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE business man, the acquirer vast,<br> After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure,<br> Devises houses and lands to his children--bequeaths stocks, goods--<br> funds for a school or hospital,<br> Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems<br> and gold;<br> Parceling out with care--And then, to prevent all cavil,<br> His name to his testament formally signs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But I, my life surveying,<br> With nothing to show, to devise, from its idle years,<br> Nor houses, nor lands--nor tokens of gems or gold for my friends,<br> Only these Souvenirs of Democracy--In them--in all my songs--behind<br> me leaving, 10<br> To You, who ever you are, (bathing, leavening this leaf especially<br> with my breath--pressing on it a moment with my own hands;<br> --Here! feel how the pulse beats in my wrists!--how my heart's-blood<br> is swelling, contracting!)<br> I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,<br> To which I sign my name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535136" data-title="Souvenirs Of Democracy de Walt Whitman" data-description="THE business man, the acquirer vast, After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure, Devises houses and lands to his children--bequeaths stocks, goods-- funds for a school or hospital, Leaves money to certain companions to b..."></div> </div> </div>

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