And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves,
Tenderly will I use you curling grass,
It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
It may be if I had known them I would have loved them,
It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their
mother's laps,
And here you are the mothers' laps."
- Song of Myself: 6
Author: Walt Whitman
![And now it [grass] seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves, <br /><br />Tenderly will I use you curling grass,<br />It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, <br />It may be if I had known them I would have loved them, <br />It may be you from old people, or from offspring taken soon out of their<br /> mother's laps, <br /> And here you are the mothers' laps."<br /><br />- <i>Song of Myself</i>: 6 - Walt Whitman](/static/img/quotes/629176.jpg)