...earth's ultimate symbol of democracy and human togetherness, for it grew everywhere. As Whitman writes, "Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,/...Growing among black folks as among white,/ Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same." Grass also represented...

...earth's ultimate symbol of democracy and human togetherness, for it grew everywhere. As Whitman writes, "Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,/...Growing among black folks as among white,/ Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same." Grass also represented...

...earth's ultimate symbol of democracy and human togetherness, for it grew everywhere. As Whitman writes, "Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, / Growing among black folks as among white, / Kanuk, Tukahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same." He knew that Southerners...

...of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or 1 guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, Or I guess the grass is itself a child ... the produced...narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white. (LG 36—37) He begins to play with his own ideas, as the unreadable hieroglyphic sign of natural growth...

...itself, "the produced babe of the vegetation"; an emblem of democracy, "a uniform hieroglyphic . . . Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, / Growing among black folks as among white"; and finally "the beautiful uncut hair of graves," the sign of immortality in the shared life of all...

...dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say \\1iose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced...Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me...

...dropped, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? Or I guess the grass is itself a child ... the produced babe of the vegetation. Or 1 guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,...