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  • "I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and

  • I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them,

  • respond to them,

  • And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. [...]"

  • "Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,

  • The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings;

  • The voice, articulation

  • language, whispering, shouting aloud,

  • food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep,

  • walking, swimming, poise on the hips,

  • leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,

  • the continual changes of the flex of the mouth,

  • and around the eyes,

  • the skin, the sunburnt shade, freckles, hair,

  • the curious sympathy one feels when feeling with the hand the naked meat of the body

  • the circling rivers, the breath, and breathing it in and out

  • the beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downwards towards the knees,

  • the thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, the exquisite realization of health;

  • O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul;

  • O I say now these are the soul!"

"I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and

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