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I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

Walt Whitman
Dying, Boots, Leaves Of Grass
Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.