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  • Now, dearest comrade, lift me to your face,
    We must separate awhileHere! take from my lips this kiss.
    Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
    So long!And I hope we shall meet again.

    Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.333, NYU Press