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300 For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal
 * themselves.

O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in
 * other men and women, nor the likes of the parts
 * of you;

I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the
 * likes of the Soul, (and that they are the Soul,)

I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my
 * poems—and that they are poems,

Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's,
 * mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's
 * poems,

Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears, Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eye-brows, and the
 * waking or sleeping of the lids,

Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws,
 * and the jaw-hinges,

Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition, Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the
 * neck, neck-slue,

Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders,
 * and the ample side-round of the chest,

Upper-arm, arm-pit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm-sinews,
 * arm-bones,

Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb,
 * fore-finger, finger-balls, finger-joints, finger-nails,

Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast-bone,
 * breast-side,

Ribs, belly, back-bone, joints of the back-bone, Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward
 * round, man-balls, man-root,

Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,