Among the Multitude

by Walt Whitman · 1867
Published 01/07/1867

AMONG the men and women, the multitude,

I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,

Acknowledging none else—not parent, wife, husband, brother, child, any nearer than I am;

Some are baffled—But that one is not—that one knows me.


Ah, lover and perfect equal!

I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections;

And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you.

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