Both Uses of
infusion
in
Leaves of Grass
- I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.†
Chpt 5 *
- Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses, It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor, It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(infusion) to add something to something else to make it better; or the thing added