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What Am I After All

by Walt Whitman

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What am I after all but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear⁠—it never tires me.
To you your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?

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