Primeval my Love for the Woman I Love

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Primeval my Love for the Woman I Love by Walt Whitman

 PRIMEVAL my love for the woman I love, 
O bride! O wife! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, the thought of you! 
Then separate, as disembodied, the purest born, 
The ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation, 
I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man,
O sharer of my roving life.

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