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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me

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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me by Walt Whitman

 HERE the frailest leaves of me, and yet my strongest-lasting: 
Here I shade and hide my thoughts—I myself do not expose them, 
And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.

Form: Tercet

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