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- Thou pulse—thou motive of the stars, suns, systems, That, circling, move in order, safe, harmonious, Athwart the shapeless vastnesses of space, How should I think, how breathe a single breath, how speak, if, out of myself, I could not launch, to those, superior universes?Book 26 — Passage to India (80% in)
There are no more uses of "motive" in Leaves of Grass.
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