Fire Whitman

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    Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A glimpse through an interstice caught,
    Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a barroom around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremarked seated in a corner,
    Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
    A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and
    oath and smutty jest,
    There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little,
    perhaps not a word.
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)