【美国人物志】沃尔特·惠特曼 (2/8)

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沃尔特·惠特曼（英语：Walter Whitman，1819年5月31日－1892年3月26日），美国诗人、散文家、新闻工作者及人文主义者。
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A child said, what is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands.
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord.
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say whose?
And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Tenderly will I use you curling grass.
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men.
It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their mother's laps.