Love the Earth & Sun & the Animals… – Walt Whitman – Bookmark

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Love
the Earth & Sun
& the Animals

Depise Riches

Give Alms to
Every One
that asks

Stand Up
For the Stupid & Crazy

Devote
Your Income & Labor
to others

Hate Tyrants

Argue Not
Concerning God

Have Patience & Indulgence
Toward the People

Take off your hat
to nothing
known or unknown
or to any man or number of men

Go Freely
with powerful uneducated persons
& with the young & with mothers
of families

Read These Leaves
in the open air every season of
every year of your life

Reexamine
all you have been told
at school or church
or in any book

Dismiss whatever insults
your own soul,
& your very flesh
shall be a great poem…

– Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, 1855