I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
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In the summer of '84 I went again to the United States, my chief object again being to see Whitman - though I had also friends to visit.Edward Carpenter
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