Paired: Plumb + Whitman

Sleeping Lion by Colleen Plumb from her series Animals are Outside Today. Several prints from this series are
available on 20×200: Tiger Rug, Cabrini Green, Field Museum Sue and Amish Horses.

from Leaves of Grass

32
I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and self contain’d,
I stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the earth.

—Walt Whitman

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