To my family, friends & " Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? " -"Stranger, Inscriptions"(1860) by Walt Whitman "Thou reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I, Therefore for thee the following chants" -"Thou Reader, Leaves of grass"(1865) by