Sarah Booth

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Was somebody asking to see the Soul? See! your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. All hold spiritual joys, and afterwards loosen them: How can the real body ever die, and be buried? Of your real body, and any man's or woman's real body, Item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners, and pass to         fitting spheres, Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of         death. Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning,
Poems by Walt Whitman
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