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hides, or more than half hides, his thought, his 
glow, his magnetism, his most golden and orbic 
treasures. 
Finally, as those men and women respect and love 
Walt Whitman best who have known him longest 
and closest personally, the same rule will apply to 
“Teaves of Grass” and the later volume, ‘‘ Two 
Rivulets.” It is indeed neither the first surface 
reading of those books, nor perhaps even the second 
or third, that will any more than prepare the student 
for the full assimilation of the poems. Like Nature, 
and like the Sciences, they suggest endless suites of 
chambers opening and expanding more and more 
and continually. 
