O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Me Imperturbe." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Me Imperturbe." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.