Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
67. Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love
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O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
—Then separate, as disembodied, or another born,
Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation;
I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man,
O sharer of my roving life.