It gave him a sense of the people. If you read his editorials he really is a sermonizer, he wants the people to do better. He's interested in the good order of society, better schools and more money for seamstresses. Loving notes that while Whitman may have been more attractive to men than to women, some women were highly attracted to him. It is ready for thy child my love.
Angels guard the vestibule until thou comest to deposit our and the world's precious treasure . . .
He must be begotten on a mountain top, in the open air. Many years later, a friend found the letter among a disarray of Whitman's papers strewn about his Camden home. There were others. The closest we have come to finding evidence of a female sexual partner, however, is in a mysterious letter from Ellen Eyre. It's true that I was sailing under false colors.