Whitman, as Printed

‹ Leaves of Grass, 1855

Concordance

The 7,190 different words in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, A to Z, with each line they appear in. Where his spelling differs from ours, today’s is beside it. Each line opens in the book.

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yacht 1

  1. p. 62, line 3The sloop's tiller . . the pilot's wheel and bell . . the yacht or fish-smack . . the great gay-pennanted three-hundred-foot steamboat under full headway, with her proud fat breasts and her delicate swift-flashing paddles;

ya-honk 1

  1. p. 21, line 1Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation;

Yankee 7

  1. p. iv, line 74[…] factories and mercantile life and laborsaving machinery—the Yankee swap—the New-York firemen and the target excursion—the southern […]
  2. p. 18, line 28The Yankee clipper is under her three skysails . . . . she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  3. p. 22, line 17The cleanhaired Yankee girl works with her sewing-machine or in the factory or mill,
  4. p. 23, line 27A Yankee bound my own way . . . . ready for trade . . . . my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  5. p. 89, line 6I love to look on the stars and stripes . . . . I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  6. p. 89, line 16What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?
  7. p. 90, line 2Find a swift Yankee clipper . . . . here is freight for you blackbellied clipper,

yard 2

  1. p. 37, line 30Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
  2. p. 61, line 19The usual routine . . . . the workshop, factory, yard, office, store, or desk;

yards 1

  1. p. 41, line 14We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched,

yawp 1

  1. p. 55, line 28I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

year 2

  1. p. vi, line 11[…] in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told […]
  2. p. x, line 32[…] is wisdom that fills the thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by […]

yearning 3

  1. p. 25, line 10This is the touch of my lips to yours . . . . this is the murmur of yearning,
  2. p. 82, line 15The pure extravagant yearning questioning artist's face,
  3. p. 91, line 10The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture . . . . the yearning and swelling heart,

years 29

  1. p. v, line 116[…] but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or […]
  2. p. vi, line 100[…] shall be encouraged or terrified afterward for many years. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of […]
  3. p. x, line 7[…] owned, and the easy dollars that supply the year's plain clothing and meals, the melancholy prudence of the abandonment […]
  4. p. x, line 10[…] man is to the toss and pallor of years of moneymaking with all their scorching days and icy nights […]
  5. p. x, line 33[…] thinness of a year or seventy or eighty years to wisdom spaced out by ages and coming back at […]
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  1. p. xi, line 58[…] marches of tens and hundreds and thousands of years made willing detours to the right hand and the left […]
  2. p. 19, line 17Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
  3. p. 26, line 19And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  4. p. 34, line 29Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
  5. p. 40, line 26Not a single one over thirty years of age.
  6. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  7. p. 43, line 28The blossoms we wear in our hats are the growth of two thousand years.
  8. p. 45, line 22Heard it and heard of several thousand years;
  9. p. 48, line 10Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
  10. p. 66, line 7I see one building the house that serves him a few years . . . . or seventy or eighty years at most;
  11. p. 66, line 26Died aged forty-one years . . and that was his funeral.
  12. p. 75, line 5The fugitive returns unharmed . . . . the immigrant is back beyond months and years;
  13. p. 78, line 24He was six feet tall . . . . he was over eighty years old . . . . his sons were massive clean bearded tanfaced and handsome,
  14. p. 81, line 3For him the globe lay preparing quintillions of years without one animal or plant,
  15. p. 84, line 21In each house is the ovum . . . . it comes forth after a thousand years.
  16. p. 90, line 15And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day . . . . or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
  17. p. 92, line 14I do not think it was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten decillions of years,
  18. p. 92, line 16I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
  19. p. 92, line 17Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
  20. p. 92, line 18Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me or any one else.
  21. p. 92, line 22And that I grew six feet high . . . . and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in 1855 . . . . and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful;

yelling 1

  1. p. 39, line 25Heat and smoke I inspired . . . . I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,

yellow 3

  1. p. 20, line 25And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me,
  2. p. 72, line 24It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
  3. p. 78, line 22The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes,

yellow-crowned 1

  1. p. 37, line 9Where the yellow-crowned heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs;

yellow-hemmed 1

  1. p. 22, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemmed cloth is offering moccasins and beadbags for sale,

yet 29

  1. p. vii, line 114[…] circling here swells the soul of the poet yet it president of itself always. The depths are fathomless and […]
  2. p. viii, line 103[…] realize the true American character but do not yet—when the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics […]
  3. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  4. p. 20, line 28And the mockingbird in the swamp never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  5. p. 28, line 7Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
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  1. p. 40, line 15The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
  2. p. 42, line 17The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
  3. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
  4. p. 45, line 20And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  5. p. 48, line 4The sky up there . . . . yet here or next door or across the way?
  6. p. 48, line 14Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession . . . . rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
  7. p. 49, line 3And what is yet untried and afterward is for you and me and all.
  8. p. 53, line 7I teach straying from me, yet who can stray from me?
  9. p. 54, line 9I hear and behold God in every object, yet I understand God not in the least,
  10. p. 59, line 6I bring what you much need, yet always have,
  11. p. 59, line 22And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  12. p. 62, line 11The paper I write on or you write on . . and every word we write . . and every cross and twirl of the pen . . and the curious way we write what we think . . . . yet very faintly;
  13. p. 66, line 3To think that the rivers will come to flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen . . and act upon others as upon us now . . . . yet not act upon us;
  14. p. 67, line 5To think that other workingmen will make just as great account of them . . yet we make little or no account.
  15. p. 67, line 7To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
  16. p. 67, line 15To think there will still be farms and profits and crops . . yet for you of what avail?
  17. p. 69, line 23Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they will yet pass on.
  18. p. 69, line 27I cannot define my satisfaction . . yet it is so,
  19. p. 69, line 28I cannot define my life . . yet it is so.
  20. p. 72, line 5I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
  21. p. 73, line 15Confused . . . . a pastreading . . . . another, but with darkness yet.
  22. p. 81, line 11And wonders within there yet.
  23. p. 84, line 9The Lord advances and yet advances:
  24. p. 88, line 10Yet behind all, lo, a Shape,

yield 4

  1. p. 57, line 3Yield closer and closer and give me the best you possess.
  2. p. 77, line 7Not you will yield forth the dawn again more surely than you will yield forth me again,
  3. p. 85, line 21Him all wait for . . . . him all yield up to . . . . his word is decisive and final,

yielded 2

  1. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.
  2. p. 83, line 5A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.

yielding 2

  1. p. x, line 51[…] of those that seduce women . . not the foolish yielding of women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young […]
  2. p. 79, line 23Undulating into the willing and yielding day,

yields 1

  1. p. 77, line 8Not the womb yields the babe in its time more surely than I shall be yielded from you in my time.

yoke 1

  1. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?

yolks 1

  1. p. 72, line 19Laps life-swelling yolks . . . . laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened:

York 1

  1. p. 43, line 25We walk the roads of Ohio and Massachusetts and Virginia and Wisconsin and New York and New Orleans and Texas and Montreal and San Francisco and Charleston and Savannah and Mexico,

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you'll 1

  1. p. 84, line 2You'll be unmuzzled . . . . you certainly will.

young 42

  1. p. iv, line 68[…] the uttermost parts . . . . the noble character of the young mechanics and of all free American workmen and workwomen . . . . the […]
  2. p. vi, line 9[…] freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in […]
  3. p. viii, line 75[…] throats are choked with their own blood . . . . the young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they pass […]
  4. p. x, line 53[…] women . . not prostitution . . not of any depravity of young men . . not of the attainment of gain by discreditable means […]
  5. p. x, line 76[…] is wise it is the same . . . if the young mechanic or farmer is wise it is no more or […]
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  1. p. x, line 82[…] and the poor and old and sorrowful and young children and widows and the sick, and to all shunned […]
  2. p. xi, line 17[…] possible forgiveness or deputed atonement . . knows that the young man who composedly periled his life and lost it has […]
  3. p. xi, line 61[…] and long after he is buried? Does the young man think often of him? and the young woman think […]
  4. p. xi, line 62[…] young man think often of him? and the young woman think often of him? and do the middleaged and […]
  5. p. xii, line 17[…] or songs or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of […]
  6. p. xii, line 42[…] manners? Is it for the nursing of the young of the republic? Does it solve readily with the sweet […]
  7. p. 16, line 20It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men,
  8. p. 16, line 29I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  9. p. 17, line 1What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  10. p. 19, line 15Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
  11. p. 19, line 16Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly,
  12. p. 19, line 20Which of the young men does she like the best?
  13. p. 19, line 26The beards of the young men glistened with wet, it ran from their long hair,
  14. p. 19, line 30The young men float on their backs, their white bellies swell to the sun . . . . they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
  15. p. 22, line 1The young fellow drives the express-wagon . . . . I love him though I do not know him;
  16. p. 22, line 3The western turkey-shooting draws old and young . . . . some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  17. p. 22, line 15The young sister holds out the skein, the elder sister winds it off in a ball and stops now and then for the knots,
  18. p. 23, line 18The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  19. p. 23, line 21I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  20. p. 31, line 26Talkative young ones to those that like them . . . . the recitative of fish-pedlars and fruit-pedlars . . . . the loud laugh of workpeople at their meals,
  21. p. 40, line 17Hear of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  22. p. 41, line 7And that is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men,
  23. p. 49, line 7It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  24. p. 49, line 8Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  25. p. 53, line 20The young mechanic is closest to me . . . . he knows me pretty well,
  26. p. 53, line 26The young mother and old mother shall comprehend me,
  27. p. 54, line 3And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  28. p. 59, line 1Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms;
  29. p. 64, line 8When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silversmiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls,
  30. p. 78, line 11The woodman rapidly swinging his axe in the woods . . . . the young fellow hoeing corn . . . . the sleighdriver guiding his six horses through the crowd,
  31. p. 85, line 16A YOUNG man came to me with a message from his brother,
  32. p. 85, line 17How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  33. p. 85, line 19And I stood before the young man face to face, and took his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  34. p. 88, line 15Meanwhile corpses lie in new-made graves . . . . bloody corpses of young men:
  35. p. 88, line 18Those corpses of young men,
  36. p. 88, line 21They live in other young men, O kings,
  37. p. 89, line 15Arms in slings and old men leaning on young men's shoulders.

younger 1

  1. p. xi, line 87[…] of tumult and chaos . . . . the elder encourages the younger and shows him how . . . they two shall launch off fearlessly […]

youngest 1

  1. p. 93, line 17We are just as good and bad as the oldest and youngest or any,

youngster 2

  1. p. 17, line 29The youngster and the redfaced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  2. p. 43, line 8Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too and am tried and sentenced.

your 83

  1. p. vi, line 3[…] stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning […]
  2. p. vi, line 6[…] patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man […]
  3. p. vi, line 11[…] open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school […]
  4. p. vi, line 13[…] church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the […]
  5. p. vi, line 16[…] lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body […]
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  1. p. vi, line 17[…] eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. . . . . . . . The poet shall not spend his time in unneeded […]
  2. p. vi, line 75[…] some more and some less to bear on your individual character as you hear or read. To do this […]
  3. p. 15, line 24Loafe with me on the grass . . . . loose the stop from your throat,
  4. p. 15, line 26Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
  5. p. 15, line 28You settled your head athwart my hips and gently turned over upon me,
  6. p. 15, line 29And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my barestript heart,
  7. p. 19, line 23You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
  8. p. 20, line 20Oxen that rattle the yoke or halt in the shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  9. p. 22, line 31(Miserable! I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you,)
  10. p. 25, line 23All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
  11. p. 27, line 15Smile, for your lover comes!
  12. p. 27, line 21I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
  13. p. 30, line 5You my rich blood, your milky stream pale strippings of my life;
  14. p. 30, line 7My brain it shall be your occult convolutions,
  15. p. 31, line 17I crowd your noisiest talk by looking toward you.
  16. p. 33, line 13Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.
  17. p. 35, line 10I but use you a moment and then I resign you stallion . . . . and do not need your paces, and outgallop them,
  18. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
  19. p. 44, line 16Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask . . . . lie over,
  20. p. 44, line 25You there, impotent, loose in the knees, open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you,
  21. p. 44, line 26Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  22. p. 45, line 12By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
  23. p. 48, line 1The well-taken photographs . . . . but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  24. p. 52, line 9Shoulder your duds, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth;
  25. p. 52, line 11If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  26. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  27. p. 52, line 23Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
  28. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
  29. p. 52, line 27To jump off in the midst of the sea, and rise again and nod to me and shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  30. p. 53, line 9My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
  31. p. 53, line 12It was tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
  32. p. 56, line 6If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.
  33. p. 56, line 9And filter and fibre your blood.
  34. p. 57, line 17If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
  35. p. 57, line 18If your lover or husband or wife is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome;
  36. p. 58, line 1If you have become degraded or ill, then I will become so for your sake;
  37. p. 58, line 2If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my foolish and outlawed deeds?
  38. p. 58, line 9Because you are greasy or pimpled—or that you was once drunk, or a thief, or diseased, or rheumatic, or a prostitute—or are so now—or from frivolity or impotence—or that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print . . . . do you give in that you are any less immortal?
  39. p. 59, line 12It is for you whoever you are . . . . it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  40. p. 61, line 10Your person and every particle that relates to your person,
  41. p. 61, line 11The pulses of your brain waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight;
  42. p. 61, line 13What is called right and what is called wrong . . . . what you behold or touch . . . . what causes your anger or wonder,
  43. p. 62, line 13The ring on your finger . . the lady's wristlet . . the hammers of stonebreakers or coppersmiths . . the druggist's vials and jars;
  44. p. 63, line 16Your room and bedroom . . . . your piano-forte . . . . the stove and cookpans,
  45. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  46. p. 63, line 21In them your themes and hints and provokers . . if not, the whole earth has no themes or hints or provokers, and never had.
  47. p. 64, line 3Man in the first you see or touch . . . . always in your friend or brother or nighest neighbor . . . . Woman in your mother or lover or wife,
  48. p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  49. p. 67, line 11Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  50. p. 67, line 14Your farm and profits and crops . . . . to think how engrossed you are;
  51. p. 68, line 1It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you,
  52. p. 80, line 1Be not ashamed women . . your privilege encloses the rest . . it is the exit of the rest,
  53. p. 82, line 1Your mother . . . . is she living? . . . . Have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
  54. p. 83, line 27Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creased and cadaverous march?
  55. p. 83, line 29I see your rounded never-erased flow,
  56. p. 83, line 30I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
  57. p. 84, line 27Come here, she blushingly cries . . . . Come nigh to me limber-hip'd man and give me your finger and thumb,
  58. p. 84, line 30Rub to me with your chafing beard . . rub to my breast and shoulders.
  59. p. 89, line 17Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mistake your crutches for firelocks, and level them?
  60. p. 89, line 18If you blind your eyes with tears you will not see the President's marshal,
  61. p. 89, line 20For shame old maniacs! . . . . Bring down those tossed arms, and let your white hair be;
  62. p. 89, line 21Here gape your smart grandsons . . . . their wives gaze at them from the windows,
  63. p. 90, line 3Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! . . . . steer straight toward Boston bay.
  64. p. 90, line 10You have got your revenge old buster! . . . . The crown is come to its own and more than its own.
  65. p. 90, line 11Stick your hands in your pockets Jonathan . . . . you are a made man from this day,
  66. p. 90, line 12You are mighty cute . . . . and here is one of your bargains.
  67. p. 93, line 9Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft . . . . where you sail I sail,
  68. p. 94, line 17Sound your voice! I scale mountains or dive in the sea after you.

yours 5

  1. p. 24, line 15If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
  2. p. 25, line 10This is the touch of my lips to yours . . . . this is the murmur of yearning,
  3. p. 44, line 4And that my steps drag behind yours yet go before them,
  4. p. 93, line 10Yours is the muscle of life or death . . . . yours is the perfect science . . . . in you I have absolute faith.

yourself 20

  1. p. 14, line 8You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
  2. p. 48, line 5The saints and sages in history . . . . but you yourself?
  3. p. 52, line 5You must travel it for yourself.
  4. p. 52, line 18I answer that I cannot answer . . . . you must find out for yourself.
  5. p. 52, line 21But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes I will certainly kiss you with my goodbye kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
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  1. p. 52, line 24You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life
  2. p. 58, line 6Why what have you thought of yourself?
  3. p. 58, line 7Is it you then that thought yourself less?
  4. p. 60, line 1Have you reckoned them as mainly for a trade or farmwork? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure or a lady's leisure?
  5. p. 63, line 20In them, not yourself . . . . you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  6. p. 65, line 3Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?
  7. p. 67, line 10Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  8. p. 67, line 23You are not thrown to the winds . . you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  9. p. 67, line 24Yourself! Yourself! Yourself forever and ever!
  10. p. 71, line 31Double yourself and receive me darkness,
  11. p. 81, line 19Who might you find you have come from yourself if you could trace back through the centuries?
  12. p. 93, line 3Come I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
  13. p. 93, line 16Great are yourself and myself,

yourselves 2

  1. p. 44, line 2I see the approach of your numberless gangs . . . . I see you understand yourselves and me,
  2. p. 87, line 24Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.

youshall 1

  1. p. v, line 117[…] ornaments or fluency is lost. This is what youshall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise […]

youth 10

  1. p. x, line 17[…] you pass or have to do with in youth or middle age, and the issuing sickness and desperate revolt […]
  2. p. 14, line 12Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
  3. p. 22, line 8The youth lies awake in the cedar-roofed garret and harks to the musical rain,
  4. p. 41, line 4A youth not seventeen years old seized his assassin till two more came to release him,
  5. p. 50, line 25Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!
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  1. p. 72, line 23Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.
  2. p. 85, line 6Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  3. p. 93, line 21Great is youth, and equally great is old age . . . . great are the day and night;
  4. p. 93, line 23Youth large lusty and loving . . . . youth full of grace and force and fascination,