We two boys together clinging

We two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going - North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying - elbows stretching - fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless - eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
No law less than ourselves owning - sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming - air breathing, water drinking,
On the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.

by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) , "We two boys together clinging", from Leaves of Grass, published 1900

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by Michael Tilson-Thomas (1944-) , "We two boys together clinging"
by Elinor Remick Warren (1900-1991) , "We two"

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