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  • Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
    nourishing Night!
    Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
    Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.27, NYU Press