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hides, or more than half hides, his thought, his 

 glow, his magnetism, his most golden and orbic 

 treasures. 



rinally, 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 

 "Leaves of Grass" and the later volume, "Two 

 Kivulets." 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. 



