I AM he that aches with amorous love;
Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all
matter?
So the Body of me, to all I meet, or know.
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"Fix here now ye overdated spheres,
that wing the restless foote of time"
Milton -
Simple and direct. I don't find any metaphor to this, I feel it is just what it is.
But, to those who read it, or have red it, I am sure they got the impression or will get the impression that Whitman at the time of writing this was butterfly-in-his-stomach-in-love.




