Who is speaking in this excerpt from a poem by Whitman I CELEBRATE myself and sing myselfAnd what I assume you shall assumeFor every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loaf and invite my so?

Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman

It has 52 stanzas. Here is the 1st stanza.

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,

I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,

Hoping to cease not till death.

Creeds and schools in abeyance,

Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,

Nature without check with original energy.