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am I, after all, but a child, pleased with the
 * sound of my own name? repeating it over and
 * over,

I cannot tell why it affects me so much, when I hear
 * it from women's voices, and from men's voices,
 * or from my own voice,

I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

To you, your name also, Did you think there was nothing but two or three
 * pronunciations in the sound of your name?



and times—what is it in me that meets
 * them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me
 * at home?

Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that
 * corresponds with them?

What is the relation between me and them? 21