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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

Walt Whitman
Blood, Evil, Southern
Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.408, NYU Press

Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

Walt Whitman
Evil, Roaming, Littles
Walt Whitman, “Roaming In Thought”

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Walt Whitman
Law, Evil, Action
Walt Whitman, Christopher Castiglia, Glenn Hendler (2007). “Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times”, p.68, Duke University Press

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