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  • The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
    it comes or it lags behind,
    It comes from its embowered garden
    and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.118, NYU Press