And who but I should be the poet of comrades?

—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, from Starting from Paumanok, section 6, last line (p20 in my Canterbury Classics edition).

First time I'm reading Leaves of Grass. I'm quite taken with it. The accolades are, thus far, well deserved. This is just one line that struck a chord with me today. I'm going to use it somewhere.

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