Thank you for your very personal and vital reading, @nancybriti, worthy of the Whitmanian spirit. Also for your appreciation.
When I was a high school student, we friends would gather to celebrate (not only verbally) the poetry, and I couldn't miss the Song to myself, particularly poem no. 1, and we would continue reading at length in those hedonistic, almost Dionysian, sessions.
Whitman will continue to breathe life into us. Greetings.