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‹ Leaves of Grass, 1891–92

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  1. p. 9, line 6Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
  2. p. 9, line 12Terrible in beauty, age, and power,
  3. p. 9, line 16And menacing voice, What singest thou? it said,
  4. p. 9, line 18And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles,
  5. p. 9, line 21I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any,
  6. p. 9, line 22Waged in my book with varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering,
  7. p. 10, line 2For life and death, for the Body and for the eternal Soul,
  8. p. 10, line 7With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves,
  9. p. 10, line 10She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
  10. p. 10, line 11By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
  11. p. 10, line 16We feel the long pulsation, ebb and flow of endless motion,
  12. p. 10, line 17The tones of unseen mystery, the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world, the liquid-flowing syllables,
  13. p. 10, line 19The boundless vista and the horizon far and dim are all here,
  14. p. 10, line 20And this is ocean's poem.
  15. p. 10, line 28This song for mariners and all their ships.
  16. p. 11, line 2And to define America, her athletic Democracy,
  17. p. 11, line 6Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and priests,
  18. p. 11, line 16(I think all war through time was really fought, and ever will be really fought, for thee,)
  19. p. 11, line 23With all its angry and vehement play of causes,
  20. p. 11, line 25These recitatives for thee,—my book and the war are one,
  21. p. 11, line 26Merged in its spirit I and mine, as the contest hinged on thee,
  22. p. 12, line 2Passing the hues and objects of the world,
  23. p. 12, line 3The fields of art and learning, pleasure, sense,
  24. p. 12, line 7Put first before the rest as light for all and entrance-song of all,
  25. p. 12, line 11Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
  26. p. 12, line 31From science and the modern still impell'd,
  27. p. 12, line 33The present now and here,
  28. p. 12, line 35Of aggregate and segregate for only thence releasing,
  29. p. 13, line 11Of orbic tendencies to shape and shape and shape,
  30. p. 13, line 23Purport and end, ever the permanent life of life,
  31. p. 13, line 30Ever shall be, ever have been and are,
  32. p. 13, line 33The prophet and the bard,
  33. p. 13, line 36God and eidólons.
  34. p. 14, line 1And thee my soul,
  35. p. 14, line 11But from the whole resulting, rising at last and floating,
  36. p. 14, line 16With time and space I him dilate and fuse the immortal laws,
  37. p. 14, line 19And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
  38. p. 14, line 20And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
  39. p. 14, line 23Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections
  40. p. 14, line 28The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much,
  41. p. 14, line 29I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther,
  42. p. 14, line 30But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
  43. p. 15, line 2How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
  44. p. 15, line 6How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,
  45. p. 15, line 7And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
  46. p. 15, line 14We willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all.
  47. p. 15, line 15We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on,
  48. p. 15, line 16And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
  49. p. 15, line 17We dwell a while in every city and town,
  50. p. 15, line 18We pass through Kanada, the North-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
  51. p. 15, line 20We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear,
  52. p. 15, line 21We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the soul,
  53. p. 15, line 22Dwell a while and pass on, be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
  54. p. 15, line 23And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
  55. p. 15, line 24And may be just as much as the seasons.
  56. p. 16, line 3One who should serve the good old cause, the great idea, the progress and freedom of the race,
  57. p. 16, line 13To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
  58. p. 16, line 14THITHER as I look I see each result and glory retracing itself and nestling close, always obligated,
  59. p. 16, line 17Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
  60. p. 16, line 22They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam.
  61. p. 17, line 2Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
  62. p. 17, line 9Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
  63. p. 17, line 12WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
  64. p. 17, line 14And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery,
  65. p. 17, line 15And artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.
  66. p. 18, line 2Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
  67. p. 18, line 6I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
  68. p. 18, line 7I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
  69. p. 18, line 8Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
  70. p. 18, line 10STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
  71. p. 18, line 11And why should I not speak to you?
  72. p. 18, line 12THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
  73. p. 18, line 15Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother,
  74. p. 18, line 18Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California,
  75. p. 18, line 20Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
  76. p. 18, line 21Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy,
  77. p. 19, line 2Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull,
  78. p. 19, line 4Having studied the mocking-bird's tones and the flight of the mountain-hawk,
  79. p. 19, line 5And heard at dawn the unrivall'd one, the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars,
  80. p. 19, line 9Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
  81. p. 19, line 11Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
  82. p. 19, line 16The present and future continents north and south, with the isthmus between.
  83. p. 19, line 23With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop,
  84. p. 19, line 25One generation playing its part and passing on,
  85. p. 19, line 26Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
  86. p. 20, line 5Chants of the long-running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea,
  87. p. 20, line 6Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
  88. p. 20, line 7Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas, and thence equidistant,
  89. p. 20, line 9Take my leaves America, take them South and take them North,
  90. p. 20, line 11Surround them East and West, for they would surround you,
  91. p. 20, line 12And you precedents, connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
  92. p. 20, line 15Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me.
  93. p. 20, line 27Here lands female and male,
  94. p. 20, line 28Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world, here the flame of materials,
  95. p. 21, line 6Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than water ebbs and flows.
  96. p. 21, line 8And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
  97. p. 21, line 9For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my soul and of immortality.
  98. p. 21, line 11And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between all the States, and between any two of them,
  99. p. 21, line 12And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
  100. p. 21, line 13And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces;
  101. p. 21, line 14And a song make I of the One form'd out of all,
  102. p. 21, line 15The fang'd and glittering One whose head is over all,
  103. p. 21, line 16Resolute warlike One including and over all,
  104. p. 21, line 19I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously every city large and small,
  105. p. 21, line 20And employments! I will put in my poems that with you is heroism upon land and sea,
  106. p. 21, line 21And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
  107. p. 21, line 28I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,
  108. p. 21, line 29For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy?
  109. p. 21, line 30And who but I should be the poet of comrades?
  110. p. 22, line 6I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—and I say there is in fact no evil,
  111. p. 22, line 8I too, following many and follow'd by many, inaugurate a religion, I descend into the arena,
  112. p. 22, line 10Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
  113. p. 22, line 12I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.
  114. p. 22, line 15None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
  115. p. 22, line 16I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion,
  116. p. 22, line 17Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur;
  117. p. 23, line 1What do you seek so pensive and silent?
  118. p. 23, line 5It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess, and yet it satisfies, it is great,
  119. p. 23, line 7It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands sweeps and provides for all.
  120. p. 23, line 11For you to share with me two greatnesses, and a third one rising inclusive and more resplendent,
  121. p. 23, line 12The greatness of Love and Democracy, and the greatness of Religion.
  122. p. 23, line 13Melange mine own, the unseen and the seen,
  123. p. 23, line 15Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
  124. p. 23, line 17Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
  125. p. 23, line 20Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
  126. p. 23, line 21Any more than I am held to the heavens and all the spiritual world,
  127. p. 23, line 26I take to your reckless and composite chords, add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  128. p. 24, line 4I have paus'd to hear him near at hand inflating his throat and joyfully singing.
  129. p. 24, line 5And while I paus'd it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
  130. p. 24, line 8A charge transmitted and gift occult for those being born.
  131. p. 24, line 9Democracy! near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
  132. p. 24, line 10Ma femme! for the brood beyond us and of us,
  133. p. 24, line 11For those who belong here and those to come,
  134. p. 24, line 12I exultant to be ready for them will now shake out carols stronger and haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
  135. p. 24, line 14And your songs outlaw'd offenders, for I scan you with kindred eyes, and carry you with me the same as any.
  136. p. 24, line 16To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres and goes forward and is not dropt by death;
  137. p. 24, line 17I will effuse egotism and show it underlying all, and I will be the bard of personality,
  138. p. 24, line 18And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
  139. p. 24, line 19And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me, for I am determin'd to tell you with courageous clear voice to prove you illustrious,
  140. p. 24, line 20And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future,
  141. p. 24, line 21And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results,
  142. p. 24, line 22And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death,
  143. p. 25, line 1And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact,
  144. p. 25, line 2And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
  145. p. 25, line 5And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
  146. p. 25, line 6And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul,
  147. p. 25, line 9See, your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
  148. p. 25, line 10All hold spiritual joys and afterwards loosen them;
  149. p. 25, line 11How can the real body ever die and be buried?
  150. p. 25, line 12Of your real body and any man's or woman's real body,
  151. p. 25, line 13Item for item it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners and pass to fitting spheres,
  152. p. 25, line 16Any more than a man's substance and life or a woman's substance and life return in the body and the soul,
  153. p. 25, line 17Indifferently before death and after death.
  154. p. 25, line 18Behold, the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern, and includes and is the soul;
  155. p. 25, line 19Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it!
  156. p. 25, line 22Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
  157. p. 26, line 1Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States,
  158. p. 26, line 4Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice!
  159. p. 26, line 5Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple and the grape!
  160. p. 26, line 8Lands where the north-west Columbia winds, and where the south-west Colorado winds!
  161. p. 26, line 11Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut!
  162. p. 26, line 12Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks!
  163. p. 26, line 13Land of boatmen and sailors! fishermen's land!
  164. p. 26, line 15The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
  165. p. 26, line 16The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!
  166. p. 26, line 19O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
  167. p. 26, line 26Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
  168. p. 26, line 27Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
  169. p. 26, line 28The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
  170. p. 26, line 29The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them,
  171. p. 27, line 3Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
  172. p. 27, line 7Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal, coming personally to you now,
  173. p. 27, line 18Here for you! and here for America!
  174. p. 27, line 19Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime,
  175. p. 27, line 20And for the past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
  176. p. 27, line 22Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
  177. p. 27, line 25Leaving such to the States they melt, they depart, charging the water and the land with names.
  178. p. 28, line 1Expanding and swift, henceforth,
  179. p. 28, line 2Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick and audacious,
  180. p. 28, line 3A world primal again, vistas of glory incessant and branching,
  181. p. 28, line 4A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests,
  182. p. 28, line 5New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.
  183. p. 28, line 7You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
  184. p. 28, line 9See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing,
  185. p. 28, line 10See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village,
  186. p. 28, line 11See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores,
  187. p. 28, line 12See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, countless herds of buffalo feeding on short curly grass,
  188. p. 28, line 13See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce,
  189. p. 28, line 16See, the strong and quick locomotive as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle,
  190. p. 28, line 19See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well-belov'd, close-held by day and night,
  191. p. 28, line 21O camerado close! O you and me at last, and us two only.
  192. p. 29, line 2O something ecstatic and undemonstrable! O music wild!
  193. p. 29, line 3O now I triumph—and you shall also;
  194. p. 29, line 4O hand in hand—O wholesome pleasure—O one more desirer and lover!
  195. p. 29, line 6I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
  196. p. 29, line 7And what I assume you shall assume,
  197. p. 29, line 9I loafe and invite my soul,
  198. p. 29, line 10I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
  199. p. 29, line 12Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
  200. p. 29, line 15Creeds and schools in abeyance,
  201. p. 29, line 19Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
  202. p. 29, line 20I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it,
  203. p. 29, line 24I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,
  204. p. 30, line 2Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine,
  205. p. 30, line 3My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,
  206. p. 30, line 4The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color'd sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,
  207. p. 30, line 7The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
  208. p. 30, line 8The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides,
  209. p. 30, line 9The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
  210. p. 30, line 13Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
  211. p. 30, line 14You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
  212. p. 30, line 17You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
  213. p. 30, line 18I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end,
  214. p. 30, line 22And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
  215. p. 30, line 24Urge and urge and urge,
  216. p. 31, line 1Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex,
  217. p. 31, line 3To elaborate is no avail, learn'd and unlearn'd feel that it is so.
  218. p. 31, line 6I and this mystery here we stand.
  219. p. 31, line 7Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
  220. p. 31, line 8Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
  221. p. 31, line 9Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
  222. p. 31, line 10Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
  223. p. 31, line 11Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.
  224. p. 31, line 12Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean,
  225. p. 31, line 13Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
  226. p. 31, line 15As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread,
  227. p. 31, line 17Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes,
  228. p. 31, line 18That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
  229. p. 31, line 19And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
  230. p. 31, line 20Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?
  231. p. 31, line 21Trippers and askers surround me,
  232. p. 31, line 22People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
  233. p. 31, line 23The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
  234. p. 32, line 5These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
  235. p. 32, line 7Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am,
  236. p. 32, line 11Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.
  237. p. 32, line 12Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders,
  238. p. 32, line 13I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait.
  239. p. 32, line 15And you must not be abased to the other.
  240. p. 32, line 20How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me,
  241. p. 32, line 21And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
  242. p. 32, line 22And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
  243. p. 32, line 23Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth,
  244. p. 32, line 24And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
  245. p. 32, line 25And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
  246. p. 32, line 26And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers,
  247. p. 32, line 27And that a kelson of the creation is love,
  248. p. 32, line 28And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
  249. p. 33, line 1And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
  250. p. 33, line 2And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein and poke-weed.
  251. p. 33, line 7A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,
  252. p. 33, line 8Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
  253. p. 33, line 11And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
  254. p. 33, line 14And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
  255. p. 33, line 19And here you are the mothers' laps.
  256. p. 33, line 24And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
  257. p. 33, line 25I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
  258. p. 34, line 1And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
  259. p. 34, line 2What do you think has become of the young and old men?
  260. p. 34, line 3And what do you think has become of the women and children?
  261. p. 34, line 4They are alive and well somewhere,
  262. p. 34, line 6And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
  263. p. 34, line 7And ceas'd the moment life appear'd.
  264. p. 34, line 8All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
  265. p. 34, line 9And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
  266. p. 34, line 11I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
  267. p. 34, line 12I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contain'd between my hat and boots,
  268. p. 34, line 13And peruse manifold objects, no two alike and every one good,
  269. p. 34, line 14The earth good and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
  270. p. 34, line 16I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself,
  271. p. 34, line 18Every kind for itself and its own, for me mine male and female,
  272. p. 34, line 19For me those that have been boys and that love women,
  273. p. 34, line 20For me the man that is proud and feels how it stings to be slighted,
  274. p. 34, line 21For me the sweet-heart and the old maid, for me mothers and the mothers of mothers,
  275. p. 34, line 23For me children and the begetters of children.
  276. p. 34, line 25I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
  277. p. 34, line 26And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
  278. p. 35, line 2I lift the gauze and look a long time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
  279. p. 35, line 3The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill,
  280. p. 35, line 12The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
  281. p. 35, line 14The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
  282. p. 35, line 16What exclamations of women taken suddenly who hurry home and give birth to babes,
  283. p. 35, line 17What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restrain'd by decorum,
  284. p. 35, line 19I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart.
  285. p. 35, line 20The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready,
  286. p. 35, line 22The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
  287. p. 35, line 26I jump from the cross-beams and seize the clover and timothy,
  288. p. 35, line 27And roll head over heels and tangle my hair full of wisps.
  289. p. 36, line 1Alone far in the wilds and mountains I hunt,
  290. p. 36, line 2Wandering amazed at my own lightness and glee,
  291. p. 36, line 4Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill'd game,
  292. p. 36, line 5Falling asleep on the gather'd leaves with my dog and gun by my side.
  293. p. 36, line 6The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud,
  294. p. 36, line 8The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stopt for me,
  295. p. 36, line 9I tuck'd my trowser-ends in my boots and went and had a good time;
  296. p. 36, line 12Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders,
  297. p. 36, line 13On a bank lounged the trapper, he was drest mostly in skins, his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck, he held his bride by the hand,
  298. p. 36, line 14She had long eyelashes, her head was bare, her coarse straight locks descended upon her voluptuous limbs and reach'd to her feet.
  299. p. 36, line 15The runaway slave came to my house and stopt outside,
  300. p. 36, line 17Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,
  301. p. 36, line 18And went where he sat on a log and led him in and assured him,
  302. p. 36, line 19And brought water and fill'd a tub for his sweated body and bruis'd feet,
  303. p. 36, line 20And gave him a room that enter'd from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
  304. p. 36, line 21And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
  305. p. 36, line 22And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
  306. p. 36, line 23He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass'd north,
  307. p. 37, line 2Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
  308. p. 37, line 3Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.
  309. p. 37, line 5She hides handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.
  310. p. 37, line 10Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather,
  311. p. 37, line 11The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved them.
  312. p. 37, line 15It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
  313. p. 37, line 17They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch,
  314. p. 37, line 20I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.
  315. p. 37, line 21Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
  316. p. 38, line 2The negro that drives the long dray of the stone-yard, steady and tall he stands pois'd on one leg on the string-piece,
  317. p. 38, line 3His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip-band,
  318. p. 38, line 4His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead,
  319. p. 38, line 5The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish'd and perfect limbs.
  320. p. 38, line 6I behold the picturesque giant and love him, and I do not stop there,
  321. p. 38, line 9To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing,
  322. p. 38, line 10Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
  323. p. 38, line 11Oxen that rattle the yoke and chain or halt in the leafy shade, what is that you express in your eyes?
  324. p. 38, line 13My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and day-long ramble,
  325. p. 38, line 16And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,
  326. p. 38, line 17And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional,
  327. p. 38, line 18And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
  328. p. 38, line 19And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
  329. p. 38, line 20And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
  330. p. 38, line 22Ya-honk he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation,
  331. p. 38, line 24Find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.
  332. p. 39, line 3The brood of the turkey-hen and she with her half-spread wings,
  333. p. 39, line 4I see in them and myself the same old law.
  334. p. 39, line 9Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses,
  335. p. 39, line 10I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.
  336. p. 39, line 18The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,
  337. p. 39, line 20The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
  338. p. 39, line 21The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,
  339. p. 39, line 23The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel,
  340. p. 39, line 24The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First-day loafe and looks at the oats and rye,
  341. p. 39, line 27The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
  342. p. 40, line 5The western turkey-shooting draws old and young, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
  343. p. 40, line 10The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof'd garret and harks to the musical rain,
  344. p. 40, line 12The squaw wrapt in her yellow-hemm'd cloth is offering moccasins and bead-bags for sale,
  345. p. 40, line 15The young sister holds out the skein while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots,
  346. p. 40, line 16The one-year wife is recovering and happy having a week ago borne her first child,
  347. p. 40, line 18The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer, the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note-book, the sign-painter is lettering with blue and gold,
  348. p. 40, line 20The conductor beats time for the band and all the performers follow him,
  349. p. 41, line 2The opium-eater reclines with rigid head and just-open'd lips,
  350. p. 41, line 3The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
  351. p. 41, line 4The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
  352. p. 41, line 7On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms,
  353. p. 41, line 9The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle,
  354. p. 41, line 13Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
  355. p. 41, line 14Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground;
  356. p. 41, line 15Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface,
  357. p. 41, line 20Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them,
  358. p. 41, line 21In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport,
  359. p. 41, line 22The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
  360. p. 41, line 24The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
  361. p. 41, line 25And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
  362. p. 42, line 1And such as it is to be of these more or less I am,
  363. p. 42, line 2And of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
  364. p. 42, line 3I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
  365. p. 42, line 6Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine,
  366. p. 42, line 7One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same,
  367. p. 42, line 8A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live,
  368. p. 42, line 9A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
  369. p. 42, line 13At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking,
  370. p. 42, line 16Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat,
  371. p. 42, line 19Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion,
  372. p. 42, line 24And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
  373. p. 42, line 25(The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place,
  374. p. 42, line 26The bright suns I see and the dark suns I cannot see are in their place,
  375. p. 42, line 27The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.)
  376. p. 43, line 1These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
  377. p. 43, line 3If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing,
  378. p. 43, line 5This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is,
  379. p. 43, line 7With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums,
  380. p. 43, line 8I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons.
  381. p. 43, line 11I beat and pound for the dead,
  382. p. 43, line 12I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
  383. p. 43, line 14And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
  384. p. 43, line 15And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
  385. p. 43, line 16And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
  386. p. 43, line 17And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
  387. p. 43, line 23There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
  388. p. 43, line 24This is the press of a bashful hand, this the float and odor of hair,
  389. p. 43, line 26This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
  390. p. 43, line 27This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
  391. p. 44, line 2Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has.
  392. p. 44, line 14That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.
  393. p. 44, line 15Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids, conformity goes to the fourth-remov'd,
  394. p. 44, line 17Why should I pray? why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
  395. p. 44, line 18Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close,
  396. p. 44, line 20In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barley-corn less,
  397. p. 44, line 21And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
  398. p. 44, line 22I know I am solid and sound,
  399. p. 44, line 24All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
  400. p. 45, line 8And if each and all be aware I sit content.
  401. p. 45, line 9One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
  402. p. 45, line 10And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
  403. p. 45, line 12My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,
  404. p. 45, line 14And I know the amplitude of time.
  405. p. 45, line 15I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
  406. p. 45, line 16The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
  407. p. 45, line 17The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
  408. p. 45, line 19And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
  409. p. 45, line 20And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
  410. p. 45, line 22We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
  411. p. 45, line 25It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
  412. p. 45, line 26I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
  413. p. 45, line 27I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.
  414. p. 46, line 5Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  415. p. 46, line 8Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  416. p. 46, line 9Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  417. p. 46, line 21Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths,
  418. p. 46, line 22Sea of the brine of life and of unshovell'd yet always-ready graves,
  419. p. 46, line 23Howler and scooper of storms, capricious and dainty sea,
  420. p. 46, line 24I am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
  421. p. 46, line 25Partaker of influx and efflux I, extoller of hate and conciliation,
  422. p. 46, line 26Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms.
  423. p. 46, line 28(Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
  424. p. 46, line 30What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
  425. p. 46, line 31Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,
  426. p. 47, line 4Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be work'd over and rectified?
  427. p. 47, line 5I find one side a balance and the antipodal side a balance,
  428. p. 47, line 7Thoughts and deeds of the present our rouse and early start.
  429. p. 47, line 9There is no better than it and now.
  430. p. 47, line 11The wonder is always and always how there can be a mean man or an infidel.
  431. p. 47, line 13And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
  432. p. 47, line 16It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all,
  433. p. 47, line 18I accept Reality and dare not question it,
  434. p. 47, line 19Materialism first and last imbuing.
  435. p. 47, line 21Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac,
  436. p. 47, line 24This is the geologist, this works with the scalpel, and this is a mathematician.
  437. p. 47, line 26Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling,
  438. p. 48, line 2And more the reminders they of life untold, and of freedom and extrication,
  439. p. 48, line 3And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equipt,
  440. p. 48, line 4And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives and them that plot and conspire.
  441. p. 48, line 6Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
  442. p. 48, line 7No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
  443. p. 48, line 12And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
  444. p. 48, line 13Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index.
  445. p. 48, line 17Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
  446. p. 48, line 18Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
  447. p. 48, line 19Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,
  448. p. 48, line 20And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father-stuff,
  449. p. 48, line 21And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
  450. p. 48, line 25Voices of sexes and lusts, voices veil'd and I remove the veil,
  451. p. 48, line 26Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd.
  452. p. 48, line 28I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
  453. p. 49, line 1I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
  454. p. 49, line 2Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
  455. p. 49, line 3Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
  456. p. 49, line 5This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
  457. p. 49, line 8Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you!
  458. p. 49, line 18Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you!
  459. p. 49, line 19You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!
  460. p. 49, line 23I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious,
  461. p. 49, line 24Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy,
  462. p. 49, line 30The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
  463. p. 50, line 2Scooting obliquely high and low.
  464. p. 50, line 8Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
  465. p. 50, line 9If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
  466. p. 50, line 10We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
  467. p. 50, line 11We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the day-break.
  468. p. 50, line 13With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
  469. p. 50, line 26I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.
  470. p. 50, line 27Writing and talk do not prove me,
  471. p. 50, line 28I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
  472. p. 51, line 6Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
  473. p. 51, line 11The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights,
  474. p. 51, line 13The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
  475. p. 51, line 17It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast.
  476. p. 51, line 20A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
  477. p. 51, line 21The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
  478. p. 51, line 26I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
  479. p. 52, line 3And that we call Being.
  480. p. 52, line 5(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
  481. p. 52, line 9They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
  482. p. 52, line 10I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
  483. p. 52, line 13Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
  484. p. 52, line 14Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
  485. p. 52, line 15My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
  486. p. 52, line 21Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,
  487. p. 52, line 23They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
  488. p. 52, line 26Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
  489. p. 52, line 29They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
  490. p. 52, line 31I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
  491. p. 53, line 7Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
  492. p. 53, line 8Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,
  493. p. 53, line 9Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.
  494. p. 53, line 15Logic and sermons never convince,
  495. p. 53, line 17(Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
  496. p. 53, line 19A minute and a drop of me settle my brain,
  497. p. 53, line 20I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
  498. p. 53, line 21And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
  499. p. 53, line 22And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  500. p. 53, line 23And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
  501. p. 53, line 24And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
  502. p. 53, line 26And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
  503. p. 54, line 1And the tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre for the highest,
  504. p. 54, line 2And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
  505. p. 54, line 3And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
  506. p. 54, line 4And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
  507. p. 54, line 5And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
  508. p. 54, line 7And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
  509. p. 54, line 8And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
  510. p. 54, line 13In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
  511. p. 54, line 14In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
  512. p. 54, line 16In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
  513. p. 54, line 20I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
  514. p. 54, line 21I stand and look at them long and long.
  515. p. 54, line 22They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
  516. p. 54, line 23They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
  517. p. 54, line 28So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
  518. p. 54, line 31Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
  519. p. 55, line 1Myself moving forward then and now and forever,
  520. p. 55, line 2Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
  521. p. 55, line 3Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
  522. p. 55, line 5Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
  523. p. 55, line 6A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
  524. p. 55, line 8Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
  525. p. 55, line 11His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
  526. p. 55, line 15Space and Time! now I see it is true, what I guess'd at,
  527. p. 55, line 18And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
  528. p. 55, line 19My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps,
  529. p. 55, line 23Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
  530. p. 55, line 24Weeding my onion-patch or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests,
  531. p. 55, line 27Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the buck turns furiously at the hunter,
  532. p. 56, line 3Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
  533. p. 56, line 5Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest,
  534. p. 56, line 6Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
  535. p. 56, line 8Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
  536. p. 56, line 9Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot,
  537. p. 56, line 11Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow,
  538. p. 56, line 12Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides,
  539. p. 56, line 16Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it myself and looking composedly down,)
  540. p. 56, line 18Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
  541. p. 57, line 9Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
  542. p. 57, line 10Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near,
  543. p. 57, line 11Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding,
  544. p. 57, line 16Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
  545. p. 57, line 17Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs,
  546. p. 57, line 18Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
  547. p. 57, line 20Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
  548. p. 57, line 23Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with the new and old,
  549. p. 57, line 25Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
  550. p. 58, line 3My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
  551. p. 58, line 4Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me he rides at the drape of the day,)
  552. p. 58, line 8Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,
  553. p. 58, line 9Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
  554. p. 58, line 13Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
  555. p. 58, line 14Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles,
  556. p. 58, line 18Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
  557. p. 58, line 19I tread day and night such roads.
  558. p. 58, line 20I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product,
  559. p. 58, line 21And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
  560. p. 58, line 22I fly those flights of a fluid and swallowing soul,
  561. p. 58, line 24I help myself to material and immaterial,
  562. p. 58, line 28I go hunting polar furs and the seal, leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
  563. p. 59, line 4The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is plain in all directions,
  564. p. 59, line 7We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still feet and caution,
  565. p. 59, line 8Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city,
  566. p. 59, line 9The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.
  567. p. 59, line 11I turn the bridegroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
  568. p. 59, line 12I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
  569. p. 59, line 14They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd.
  570. p. 59, line 16The courage of present times and all times,
  571. p. 59, line 17How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
  572. p. 59, line 18How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faith ful of days and faithful of nights,
  573. p. 59, line 19And chalk'd in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, we will not desert you;
  574. p. 59, line 20How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and would not give it up,
  575. p. 59, line 23How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;
  576. p. 59, line 26The disdain and calmness of martyrs,
  577. p. 60, line 1The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous buckshot and the bullets,
  578. p. 60, line 4Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,
  579. p. 60, line 6I fall on the weeds and stones,
  580. p. 60, line 8Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.
  581. p. 60, line 11My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
  582. p. 60, line 14Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
  583. p. 60, line 15I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,
  584. p. 60, line 19White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared of their fire-caps,
  585. p. 60, line 21Distant and dead resuscitate,
  586. p. 60, line 28I take part, I see and hear the whole,
  587. p. 61, line 11The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
  588. p. 61, line 12'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve young men.
  589. p. 61, line 15Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
  590. p. 61, line 16They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
  591. p. 61, line 19Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
  592. p. 61, line 22The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
  593. p. 61, line 23The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
  594. p. 61, line 25Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
  595. p. 61, line 26A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead lay together,
  596. p. 61, line 27The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
  597. p. 62, line 4The three were all torn and cover'd with the boy's blood.
  598. p. 62, line 6That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred and twelve young men.
  599. p. 62, line 8Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
  600. p. 62, line 11His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer, and never was, and never will be;
  601. p. 62, line 16On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around and blowing up overhead.
  602. p. 62, line 18Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported,
  603. p. 62, line 20The transit to and from the magazine is now stopt by the sentinels,
  604. p. 62, line 24If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
  605. p. 63, line 3Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and clear his decks.
  606. p. 63, line 13Stretch'd and still lies the midnight,
  607. p. 63, line 15Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the one we have conquer'd,
  608. p. 63, line 18The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl'd whiskers,
  609. p. 63, line 19The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
  610. p. 63, line 21Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars,
  611. p. 63, line 23Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
  612. p. 63, line 24A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
  613. p. 63, line 25Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
  614. p. 64, line 1Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull, tapering groan,
  615. p. 64, line 7And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
  616. p. 64, line 8For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch,
  617. p. 64, line 9It is I let out in the morning and barr'd at night.
  618. p. 64, line 10Not a mutineer walks handcuff'd to jail but I am handcuff'd to him and walk by his side,
  619. p. 64, line 11(I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat on my twitching lips.)
  620. p. 64, line 12Not a youngster is taken for larceny but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
  621. p. 64, line 15Askers embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them,
  622. p. 64, line 16I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
  623. p. 64, line 21That I could forget the mockers and insults!
  624. p. 64, line 22That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
  625. p. 64, line 23That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning.
  626. p. 65, line 6Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
  627. p. 65, line 11The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?
  628. p. 65, line 12Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
  629. p. 65, line 16Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him,
  630. p. 65, line 18Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, uncomb'd head, laughter, and naivetè,
  631. p. 65, line 19Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations,
  632. p. 65, line 23You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
  633. p. 66, line 1And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
  634. p. 66, line 2And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
  635. p. 66, line 7Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
  636. p. 66, line 8I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
  637. p. 66, line 9And any thing I have I bestow.
  638. p. 66, line 11You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
  639. p. 66, line 14And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
  640. p. 66, line 15On women fit for conception I start bigger and nimbler babes,
  641. p. 66, line 17To any one dying, thither I speed and twist the knob of the door,
  642. p. 66, line 19Let the physician and the priest go home.
  643. p. 66, line 20I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will,
  644. p. 66, line 26Sleep—I and they keep guard all night,
  645. p. 66, line 28I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
  646. p. 66, line 29And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
  647. p. 66, line 31And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
  648. p. 67, line 2Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
  649. p. 67, line 4Magnifying and applying come I,
  650. p. 67, line 7Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
  651. p. 67, line 10With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image,
  652. p. 67, line 11Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
  653. p. 67, line 12Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
  654. p. 67, line 13(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly and sing for themselves,)
  655. p. 67, line 14Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself, bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
  656. p. 67, line 16Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves driving the mallet and chisel,
  657. p. 67, line 18Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars,
  658. p. 67, line 20Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
  659. p. 67, line 23The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
  660. p. 67, line 24Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
  661. p. 67, line 25What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then,
  662. p. 67, line 26The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,
  663. p. 67, line 27Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream'd,
  664. p. 67, line 29The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious;
  665. p. 68, line 2Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
  666. p. 68, line 4My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
  667. p. 68, line 6Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
  668. p. 68, line 8Easily written loose-finger'd chords—I feel the thrum of your climax and close.
  669. p. 68, line 13Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides,
  670. p. 68, line 14Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real,
  671. p. 68, line 15Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts,
  672. p. 68, line 16Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him forth,
  673. p. 68, line 19Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,
  674. p. 68, line 22Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
  675. p. 68, line 23A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
  676. p. 68, line 24This is the city and I am one of the citizens,
  677. p. 68, line 26The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
  678. p. 68, line 27The little plentiful manikins skipping around in collars and tail'd coats,
  679. p. 69, line 2I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me,
  680. p. 69, line 3What I do and say the same waits for them,
  681. p. 69, line 6Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
  682. p. 69, line 7And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
  683. p. 69, line 10This printed and bound book—but the printer and the printing-office boy?
  684. p. 69, line 11The well-taken photographs—but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
  685. p. 69, line 12The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets—but the pluck of the captain and engineers?
  686. p. 69, line 13In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
  687. p. 69, line 15The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?
  688. p. 69, line 17And what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?
  689. p. 69, line 19My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
  690. p. 69, line 20Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern,
  691. p. 69, line 25Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
  692. p. 69, line 26Drinking mead from the skull-cup, to Shastas and Vedas admirant, minding the Koran,
  693. p. 69, line 27Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
  694. p. 70, line 2Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,
  695. p. 70, line 3Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,
  696. p. 70, line 5One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
  697. p. 70, line 6Down-hearted doubters dull and excluded,
  698. p. 70, line 8I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair and unbelief.
  699. p. 70, line 10How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
  700. p. 70, line 11Be at peace bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers,
  701. p. 70, line 14And what is yet untried and afterward is for you, me, all, precisely the same.
  702. p. 70, line 15I do not know what is untried and afterward,
  703. p. 70, line 16But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
  704. p. 70, line 18It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
  705. p. 70, line 19Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
  706. p. 70, line 20Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back and was never seen again,
  707. p. 70, line 21Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
  708. p. 70, line 22Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
  709. p. 70, line 23Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo call'd the ordure of humanity,
  710. p. 71, line 5I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
  711. p. 71, line 7We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers,
  712. p. 71, line 8There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
  713. p. 71, line 9Births have brought us richness and variety,
  714. p. 71, line 10And other births will bring us richness and variety.
  715. p. 71, line 11I do not call one greater and one smaller,
  716. p. 71, line 12That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
  717. p. 71, line 17I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
  718. p. 71, line 19On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
  719. p. 71, line 20All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount.
  720. p. 71, line 23I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
  721. p. 71, line 24And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
  722. p. 71, line 25Long I was hugg'd close—long and long.
  723. p. 71, line 27Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
  724. p. 72, line 1Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen,
  725. p. 72, line 9Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.
  726. p. 72, line 10All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
  727. p. 72, line 13O manhood, balanced, florid and full.
  728. p. 72, line 16Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
  729. p. 72, line 17Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and chirping over my head,
  730. p. 72, line 21Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
  731. p. 72, line 23Every condition promulges not only itself, it promulges what grows after and out of itself,
  732. p. 72, line 24And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
  733. p. 72, line 25I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
  734. p. 72, line 26And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.
  735. p. 72, line 27Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding,
  736. p. 72, line 28Outward and outward and forever outward.
  737. p. 73, line 1My sun has his sun and round him obediently wheels,
  738. p. 73, line 3And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
  739. p. 73, line 4There is no stoppage and never can be stoppage,
  740. p. 73, line 5If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would not avail in the long run,
  741. p. 73, line 7And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
  742. p. 73, line 13The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
  743. p. 73, line 15I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured.
  744. p. 73, line 17My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,
  745. p. 73, line 21But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
  746. p. 73, line 23My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
  747. p. 73, line 27Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
  748. p. 73, line 28Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.
  749. p. 74, line 1Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth,
  750. p. 74, line 2Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
  751. p. 74, line 3If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
  752. p. 74, line 4And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
  753. p. 74, line 6This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven,
  754. p. 74, line 7And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?
  755. p. 74, line 8And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
  756. p. 74, line 9You are also asking me questions and I hear you,
  757. p. 74, line 12Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
  758. p. 74, line 13But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
  759. p. 74, line 16You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.
  760. p. 74, line 19To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
  761. p. 75, line 5Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over all latherers,
  762. p. 75, line 6And those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun.
  763. p. 75, line 14And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.
  764. p. 75, line 16The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key,
  765. p. 75, line 19But roughs and little children better than they.
  766. p. 75, line 21The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with him all day,
  767. p. 75, line 23In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen and love them.
  768. p. 75, line 25On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
  769. p. 76, line 3The young mother and old mother comprehend me,
  770. p. 76, line 4The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
  771. p. 76, line 5They and all would resume what I have told them.
  772. p. 76, line 7And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
  773. p. 76, line 8And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
  774. p. 76, line 9And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud,
  775. p. 76, line 10And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
  776. p. 76, line 11And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the learning of all times,
  777. p. 76, line 12And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
  778. p. 76, line 13And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
  779. p. 76, line 14And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  780. p. 76, line 15And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God,
  781. p. 76, line 17(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death.)
  782. p. 76, line 18I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
  783. p. 76, line 21I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
  784. p. 76, line 22In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
  785. p. 76, line 23I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name,
  786. p. 76, line 24And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
  787. p. 76, line 25Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
  788. p. 77, line 1And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
  789. p. 77, line 5And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
  790. p. 77, line 6And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me,
  791. p. 77, line 7I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,
  792. p. 77, line 9And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,
  793. p. 77, line 12O suns—O grass of graves—O perpetual transfers and promotions,
  794. p. 77, line 16Toss, sparkles of day and dusk—toss on the black stems that decay in the muck,
  795. p. 77, line 20And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
  796. p. 77, line 22Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes,
  797. p. 78, line 1Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
  798. p. 78, line 2Do you see O my brothers and sisters?
  799. p. 78, line 4The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them.
  800. p. 78, line 5And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
  801. p. 78, line 8(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
  802. p. 78, line 16The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
  803. p. 78, line 20It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
  804. p. 78, line 21It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
  805. p. 78, line 23I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
  806. p. 79, line 3And filter and fibre your blood.
  807. p. 79, line 9The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
  808. p. 79, line 13My limbs and the quivering fire that ever plays through them, for reasons, most wondrous,
  809. p. 79, line 14Existing I peer and penetrate still,
  810. p. 79, line 17Or in front, and I following her just the same.
  811. p. 79, line 23Singing the need of superb children and therein superb grown people,
  812. p. 79, line 24Singing the muscular urge and the blending,
  813. p. 79, line 26O for any and each the body correlative attracting!
  814. p. 80, line 2From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
  815. p. 80, line 7Of that, of them and what goes with them my poems informing,
  816. p. 80, line 8Of the smell of apples and lemons, of the pairing of birds,
  817. p. 80, line 13The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or motionless on his back lying and floating,
  818. p. 80, line 16The face, the limbs, the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,
  819. p. 80, line 18(Hark close and still what I now whisper to you,
  820. p. 80, line 20O that you and I escape from the rest and go utterly off, free and lawless,
  821. p. 80, line 23The oath of the inseparableness of two together, of the woman that loves me and whom I love more than my life, that oath swearing,
  822. p. 80, line 26O you and I! what is it to us what the rest do or think?
  823. p. 80, line 27What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other and exhaust each other if it must be so;)
  824. p. 80, line 31From sex, from the warp and from the woof,
  825. p. 80, line 33From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
  826. p. 81, line 1From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
  827. p. 81, line 5From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow's embrace in the night,
  828. p. 81, line 6From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms,
  829. p. 81, line 8From the bending curve and the clinch,
  830. p. 81, line 10From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling to leave,
  831. p. 81, line 11(Yet a moment O tender waiter, and I return,)
  832. p. 81, line 12From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
  833. p. 81, line 14Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
  834. p. 81, line 15And you stalwart loins.
  835. p. 81, line 17The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
  836. p. 81, line 19And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
  837. p. 81, line 21And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
  838. p. 81, line 22And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
  839. p. 81, line 23And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
  840. p. 81, line 25That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.
  841. p. 82, line 1It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
  842. p. 82, line 2It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
  843. p. 82, line 3The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth,
  844. p. 82, line 5You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.
  845. p. 82, line 6The sprawl and fulness of babes, the bosoms and heads of women, the folds of their dress, their style as we pass in the street, the contour of their shape downwards,
  846. p. 82, line 7The swimmer naked in the swimming-bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, or lies with his face up and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water,
  847. p. 82, line 8The bending forward and backward of rowers in row-boats, the horseman in his saddle,
  848. p. 82, line 10The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
  849. p. 82, line 14The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
  850. p. 82, line 15The upper-hold and under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
  851. p. 82, line 16The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trowsers and waist-straps,
  852. p. 82, line 17The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, and the listening on the alert,
  853. p. 82, line 18The natural, perfect, varied attitudes, the bent head, the curv'd neck and the counting;
  854. p. 82, line 20Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, march in line with the firemen, and pause, listen, count.
  855. p. 82, line 22And in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons.
  856. p. 83, line 2The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,
  857. p. 83, line 3These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,
  858. p. 83, line 5They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved him,
  859. p. 83, line 8He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by men that loved him,
  860. p. 83, line 9When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most beautiful and vigorous of the gang,
  861. p. 83, line 10You would wish long and long to be with him, you would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he might touch each other.
  862. p. 83, line 16There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
  863. p. 83, line 21I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
  864. p. 83, line 22Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear'd of hell, are now consumed,
  865. p. 84, line 3Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
  866. p. 84, line 4Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
  867. p. 84, line 5Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
  868. p. 84, line 6Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
  869. p. 84, line 7Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh'd day.
  870. p. 84, line 9This the bath of birth, this the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.
  871. p. 84, line 10Be not ashamed women, your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
  872. p. 84, line 11You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
  873. p. 84, line 12The female contains all qualities and tempers them,
  874. p. 84, line 13She is in her place and moves with perfect balance,
  875. p. 84, line 14She is all things duly veil'd, she is both passive and active,
  876. p. 84, line 15She is to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
  877. p. 84, line 18See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.
  878. p. 84, line 20He too is all qualities, he is action and power,
  879. p. 84, line 22Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well,
  880. p. 84, line 24The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to the soul,
  881. p. 85, line 1Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail he strikes soundings at last only here,
  882. p. 85, line 3The man's body is sacred and the woman's body is sacred,
  883. p. 85, line 9The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.)
  884. p. 85, line 11Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
  885. p. 85, line 12Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffuse float, and the soil is on the surface, and water runs and vegetation sprouts,
  886. p. 85, line 13For you only, and not for him and her?
  887. p. 85, line 15(For before the war I often go to the slave-mart and watch the sale,)
  888. p. 85, line 20For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll'd.
  889. p. 85, line 22In it and below it the makings of heroes.
  890. p. 85, line 23Examine these limbs, red, black, or white, they are cunning in tendon and nerve,
  891. p. 85, line 26Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant backbone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
  892. p. 85, line 27And wonders within there yet.
  893. p. 86, line 3There swells and jets a heart, there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations,
  894. p. 86, line 4(Do you think they are not there because they are not express'd in parlors and lecture-rooms?)
  895. p. 86, line 6In him the start of populous states and rich republics,
  896. p. 86, line 7Of him countless immortal lives with countless embodiments and enjoyments.
  897. p. 86, line 12She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
  898. p. 86, line 15Do you not see that these are exactly the same to all in all nations and times all over the earth?
  899. p. 86, line 17And the glory and sweet of a man is the token of manhood untainted,
  900. p. 86, line 18And in man or woman a clean, strong, firm-fibred body, is more beautiful than the most beautiful face.
  901. p. 86, line 20For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves.
  902. p. 86, line 21O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you,
  903. p. 86, line 22I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,)
  904. p. 87, line 1I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems, and that they are my poems,
  905. p. 87, line 3Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
  906. p. 87, line 4Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eyebrows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
  907. p. 87, line 5Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
  908. p. 87, line 6Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,
  909. p. 87, line 8Strong shoulders, manly beard, scapula, hind-shoulders, and the ample side-round of the chest,
  910. p. 87, line 10Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, forefinger, finger-joints, finger-nails,
  911. p. 87, line 13Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
  912. p. 87, line 18The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,
  913. p. 87, line 21Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,
  914. p. 87, line 22The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laughter, weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
  915. p. 87, line 25Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm-curving and tightening,
  916. p. 87, line 26The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
  917. p. 87, line 29The circling rivers the breath, and breathing it in and out,
  918. p. 88, line 1The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
  919. p. 88, line 2The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones,
  920. p. 88, line 4O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul,
  921. p. 88, line 13These are contain'd in sex as parts of itself and justifications of itself.
  922. p. 88, line 14Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex,
  923. p. 88, line 15Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.
  924. p. 88, line 17I will go stay with her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and sufficient for me,
  925. p. 88, line 18I see that they understand me and do not deny me,
  926. p. 88, line 21They are tann'd in the face by shining suns and blowing winds,
  927. p. 88, line 22Their flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
  928. p. 89, line 3I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes,
  929. p. 89, line 4Envelop'd in you sleep greater heroes and bards,
  930. p. 89, line 9I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for these States, I press with slow rude muscle,
  931. p. 89, line 14On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,
  932. p. 89, line 15The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
  933. p. 89, line 17I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
  934. p. 89, line 18I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
  935. p. 89, line 25The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green,
  936. p. 89, line 26The rich coverlet of the grass, animals and birds, the private untrimm'd bank, the primitive apples, the pebble-stones,
  937. p. 89, line 29The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me,
  938. p. 90, line 1This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry,
  939. p. 90, line 3Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love-yielding, love-climbers, and the climbing sap,
  940. p. 90, line 4Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts of love, bellies press'd and glued together with love,
  941. p. 90, line 8The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied;
  942. p. 90, line 10Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
  943. p. 90, line 12The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he was dreaming,
  944. p. 90, line 13The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground,
  945. p. 90, line 17The curious roamer the hand roaming all over the body, the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
  946. p. 90, line 19The vex'd corrosion so pensive and so painful,
  947. p. 90, line 22The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that flushes and flushes,
  948. p. 90, line 25The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry;
  949. p. 91, line 1The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,
  950. p. 91, line 3The walnut-trunk, the walnut-husks, and the ripening or ripen'd long-round walnuts,
  951. p. 91, line 5The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
  952. p. 91, line 7The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters,
  953. p. 91, line 8The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through,
  954. p. 91, line 10And this bunch pluck'd at random from myself,
  955. p. 91, line 12ONE hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not!
  956. p. 91, line 14What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
  957. p. 91, line 16O savage and tender achings! (I bequeath them to you my children,
  958. p. 91, line 17I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
  959. p. 91, line 18O to be yielded to you whoever you are, and you to be yielded to me in defiance of the world!
  960. p. 91, line 19O to return to Paradise! O bashful and feminine!
  961. p. 91, line 21O the puzzle, the thrice-tied knot, the deep and dark pool, all untied and illumin'd!
  962. p. 91, line 22O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
  963. p. 91, line 23To be absolv'd from previous ties and conventions, I from mine and you from yours!
  964. p. 92, line 4To escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
  965. p. 92, line 5To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
  966. p. 92, line 10To feed the remainder of life with one hour of fulness and freedom!
  967. p. 92, line 11With one brief hour of madness and joy.
  968. p. 92, line 23Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land,
  969. p. 92, line 25AGES and ages returning at intervals,
  970. p. 93, line 9We are what locust blossoms are, we drop scent around lanes mornings and evenings,
  971. p. 93, line 11We are two predatory hawks, we soar above and look down,
  972. p. 93, line 12We are two resplendent suns, we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar, we are as two comets,
  973. p. 93, line 13We prowl fang'd and four-footed in the woods, we spring on prey,
  974. p. 93, line 14We are two clouds forenoons and afternoons driving overhead,
  975. p. 93, line 15We are seas mingling, we are two of those cheerful waves rolling over each other and interwetting each other,
  976. p. 93, line 17We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each product and influence of the globe,
  977. p. 93, line 18We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two,
  978. p. 93, line 19We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.
  979. p. 94, line 3Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank,
  980. p. 94, line 6I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers,
  981. p. 94, line 15Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been forgotten by me,
  982. p. 94, line 19I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
  983. p. 95, line 6From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero,
  984. p. 95, line 7From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands,
  985. p. 95, line 9Now I face home again, very pleas'd and joyous,
  986. p. 95, line 11And why is it yet unfound?)
  987. p. 95, line 25Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic,
  988. p. 96, line 8To tell the secret of my nights and days,
  989. p. 96, line 18You are often more bitter than I can bear, you burn and sting me,
  990. p. 96, line 20Death is beautiful from you, (what indeed is finally beautiful except death and love?)
  991. p. 97, line 2Come I am determin'd to unbare this broad breast of mine, I have long enough stifled and choked;
  992. p. 97, line 3Emblematic and capricious blades I leave you, now you serve me not,
  993. p. 97, line 5I will sound myself and comrades only, I will never again utter a call only their call,
  994. p. 97, line 7I will give an example to lovers to take permanent shape and will through the States,
  995. p. 97, line 10Give me yourself, for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
  996. p. 97, line 13That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons, and that they are mainly for you,
  997. p. 97, line 27You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect to be your sole and exclusive standard,
  998. p. 97, line 28Your novitiate would even then be long and exhausting,
  999. p. 97, line 29The whole past theory of your life and all conformity to the lives around you would have to be abandon'd,
  1000. p. 98, line 2Put me down and depart on your way.
  1001. p. 98, line 6And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)
  1002. p. 98, line 11For I am the new husband and I am the comrade.
  1003. p. 98, line 16And thus touching you would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
  1004. p. 98, line 18For these leaves and me you will not understand,
  1005. p. 98, line 19They will elude you at first and still more afterward, I will certainly elude you,
  1006. p. 98, line 24Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me,
  1007. p. 98, line 27For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at;
  1008. p. 98, line 28Therefore release me and depart on your way.
  1009. p. 99, line 6I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies,
  1010. p. 99, line 13(For who but I should understand lovers and all their sorrow and joy?
  1011. p. 99, line 14And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
  1012. p. 99, line 18(Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones and partly cover them, beyond these I pass,)
  1013. p. 99, line 20Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
  1014. p. 99, line 22Some walk by my side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
  1015. p. 99, line 23They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive, thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
  1016. p. 100, line 2Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
  1017. p. 100, line 3And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
  1018. p. 100, line 4(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me, and returns again never to separate from me,
  1019. p. 100, line 5And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades, this calamus-root shall,
  1020. p. 100, line 7And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut,
  1021. p. 100, line 8And stems of currants and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar,
  1022. p. 100, line 17Not in many an oath and promise broken,
  1023. p. 100, line 18Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition,
  1024. p. 100, line 20Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
  1025. p. 100, line 21Not in the curious systole and diastole within which will one day cease,
  1026. p. 100, line 25Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,
  1027. p. 100, line 28Nor in the limbs and senses of my body that take you and dismiss you continually—not there,
  1028. p. 100, line 30Need I that you exist and show yourself any more than in these songs.
  1029. p. 101, line 3That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
  1030. p. 101, line 5May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  1031. p. 101, line 6The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,
  1032. p. 101, line 7(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
  1033. p. 101, line 9May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;
  1034. p. 101, line 10To me these and the like of these are curiously answer'd by my lovers, my dear friends,
  1035. p. 101, line 12When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason hold not, surround us and pervade us,
  1036. p. 101, line 13Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further,
  1037. p. 101, line 17AND now gentlemen,
  1038. p. 101, line 18A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,
  1039. p. 101, line 19As base and finalè too for all metaphysics.
  1040. p. 101, line 22Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
  1041. p. 101, line 23Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,
  1042. p. 102, line 1Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
  1043. p. 102, line 2And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having studied long,
  1044. p. 102, line 3I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
  1045. p. 102, line 4See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,
  1046. p. 102, line 5Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,
  1047. p. 102, line 7Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents,
  1048. p. 102, line 8Of city for city and land for land.
  1049. p. 102, line 11Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
  1050. p. 102, line 13Who was not proud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him, and freely pour'd it forth,
  1051. p. 102, line 15Who pensive away from one he lov'd often lay sleepless and dissatisfied at night,
  1052. p. 102, line 17Whose happiest days were far away through fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men,
  1053. p. 102, line 20And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy,
  1054. p. 103, line 2When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
  1055. p. 103, line 3When I wander'd alone over the beach, and undressing bathed, laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
  1056. p. 103, line 4And when I thought how my dear friend my lover was on his way coming, O then I was happy,
  1057. p. 103, line 5O then each breath tasted sweeter, and all that day my food nourish'd me more, and the beautiful day pass'd well,
  1058. p. 103, line 6And the next came with equal joy, and with the next at evening came my friend,
  1059. p. 103, line 7And that night while all was still I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
  1060. p. 103, line 8I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me,
  1061. p. 103, line 11And his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
  1062. p. 103, line 17Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
  1063. p. 103, line 18Do you see no further than this façade, this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
  1064. p. 103, line 21ROOTS and leaves themselves alone are these,
  1065. p. 103, line 22Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods and pond-side,
  1066. p. 104, line 1Breast-sorrel and pinks of love, fingers that wind around tighter than vines,
  1067. p. 104, line 3Breezes of land and love set from living shores to you on the living sea, to you O sailors!
  1068. p. 104, line 4Frost-mellow'd berries and Third-month twigs offer'd fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
  1069. p. 104, line 5Love-buds put before you and within you whoever you are,
  1070. p. 104, line 7If you bring the warmth of the sun to them they will open and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
  1071. p. 104, line 8If you become the aliment and the wet they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees.
  1072. p. 104, line 9NOT heat flames up and consumes,
  1073. p. 104, line 10Not sea-waves hurry in and out,
  1074. p. 104, line 11Not the air delicious and dry, the air of ripe summer, bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds,
  1075. p. 104, line 14O none more than I hurrying in and out;
  1076. p. 104, line 15Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same,
  1077. p. 104, line 23From my face, from my forehead and lips,
  1078. p. 105, line 2Saturate them with yourself all ashamed and wet,
  1079. p. 105, line 5CITY of orgies, walks and joys,
  1080. p. 105, line 6City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make you illustrious,
  1081. p. 105, line 11Not those, but as I pass O Manhattan, your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love,
  1082. p. 105, line 16My brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm;
  1083. p. 105, line 17Yet comes one a Manhattanese and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love,
  1084. p. 105, line 18And I on the crossing of the street or on the ship's deck give a kiss in return,
  1085. p. 105, line 19We observe that salute of American comrades land and sea,
  1086. p. 105, line 20We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
  1087. p. 105, line 22All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches,
  1088. p. 105, line 24And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
  1089. p. 106, line 1And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
  1090. p. 106, line 2And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room,
  1091. p. 106, line 6For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
  1092. p. 106, line 14I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
  1093. p. 106, line 19THIS moment yearning and thoughtful sitting alone,
  1094. p. 106, line 20It seems to me there are other men in other lands yearning and thoughtful,
  1095. p. 106, line 21It seems to me I can look over and behold them in Germany, Italy, France, Spain,
  1096. p. 106, line 23And it seems to me if I could know those men I should become attached to them as I do to men in my own lands,
  1097. p. 106, line 24O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
  1098. p. 107, line 4Only I will establish in the Mannahatta and in every city of these States inland and seaboard,
  1099. p. 107, line 5And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large that dents the water,
  1100. p. 107, line 10Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
  1101. p. 107, line 13Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command, leading not following,
  1102. p. 107, line 14Those with a never-quell'd audacity, those with sweet and lusty flesh clear of taint,
  1103. p. 107, line 15Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and governors, as to say Who are you?
  1104. p. 107, line 18WHEN I peruse the conquer'd fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,
  1105. p. 107, line 21How together through life, through dangers, odium, unchanging, long and long,
  1106. p. 107, line 22Through youth and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were,
  1107. p. 108, line 3Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
  1108. p. 108, line 5Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving,
  1109. p. 108, line 11Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and Oregon;
  1110. p. 108, line 13For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western sea;
  1111. p. 108, line 14For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I will also.
  1112. p. 108, line 15HERE the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting,
  1113. p. 108, line 16Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them,
  1114. p. 108, line 17And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
  1115. p. 108, line 24For comrades and lovers.
  1116. p. 109, line 2Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
  1117. p. 109, line 3Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
  1118. p. 109, line 4A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
  1119. p. 109, line 7You natural persons old and young!
  1120. p. 109, line 8You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi!
  1121. p. 109, line 9You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!
  1122. p. 109, line 10You twain! and all processions moving along the streets!
  1123. p. 109, line 13Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
  1124. p. 109, line 16For an athlete is enamour'd of me, and I of him,
  1125. p. 109, line 17But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me eligible to burst forth,
  1126. p. 109, line 23And in all their looks and words.
  1127. p. 110, line 4Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—no;
  1128. p. 110, line 6The one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kiss'd him,
  1129. p. 110, line 8TO the East and to the West,
  1130. p. 110, line 9To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
  1131. p. 110, line 13Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
  1132. p. 110, line 16(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return'd,
  1133. p. 110, line 20If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers,
  1134. p. 111, line 7AMONG the men and women the multitude,
  1135. p. 111, line 8I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,
  1136. p. 111, line 11Ah lover and perfect equal,
  1137. p. 111, line 13And I when I meet you mean to discover you by the like in you.
  1138. p. 111, line 14O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you,
  1139. p. 111, line 17THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
  1140. p. 111, line 18How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,
  1141. p. 111, line 19How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
  1142. p. 111, line 20But among my lovers and caroling these songs,
  1143. p. 112, line 5Fancying how happy you were if I could be with you and become your comrade;
  1144. p. 112, line 8Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
  1145. p. 112, line 12What waves and soils exuding?
  1146. p. 112, line 13What climes? what persons and cities are here?
  1147. p. 112, line 17What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
  1148. p. 112, line 23Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends,
  1149. p. 112, line 25Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again,
  1150. p. 112, line 27Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
  1151. p. 113, line 2I hear the workman singing and the farmer's wife singing,
  1152. p. 113, line 3I hear in the distance the sounds of children and of animals early in the day,
  1153. p. 113, line 5I hear the Spanish dance with castanets in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
  1154. p. 113, line 9I hear the locusts in Syria as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
  1155. p. 113, line 11I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule,
  1156. p. 113, line 13I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches, I hear the responsive base and soprano,
  1157. p. 113, line 14I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice putting to sea at Okotsk,
  1158. p. 113, line 15I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fasten'd together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  1159. p. 113, line 16I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms,
  1160. p. 113, line 17I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans,
  1161. p. 113, line 18I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God the Christ,
  1162. p. 113, line 21Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
  1163. p. 114, line 1I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping, and the sunlit part on the other side,
  1164. p. 114, line 2I see the curious rapid change of the light and shade,
  1165. p. 114, line 3I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my land is to me.
  1166. p. 114, line 8I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps,
  1167. p. 114, line 9I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
  1168. p. 114, line 10I see Vesuvius and Etna, the mountains of the Moon, and the Red mountains of Madagascar,
  1169. p. 114, line 11I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts,
  1170. p. 114, line 12I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
  1171. p. 114, line 13I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
  1172. p. 114, line 14The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,
  1173. p. 114, line 16The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay,
  1174. p. 114, line 17The clear-sunn'd Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands,
  1175. p. 114, line 18The White sea, and the sea around Greenland.
  1176. p. 114, line 22I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their voyages,
  1177. p. 115, line 2Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles,
  1178. p. 115, line 5Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,
  1179. p. 115, line 11I see them in Asia and in Africa.
  1180. p. 115, line 15I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,
  1181. p. 115, line 16I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl,
  1182. p. 115, line 17I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
  1183. p. 115, line 19I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po,
  1184. p. 115, line 21I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
  1185. p. 115, line 25I see where druids walk'd the groves of Mona, I see the mistletoe and vervain,
  1186. p. 116, line 1I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons,
  1187. p. 116, line 2I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died,
  1188. p. 116, line 3I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus,
  1189. p. 116, line 8I see the battle-fields of the earth, grass grows upon them and blossoms and corn,
  1190. p. 116, line 9I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
  1191. p. 116, line 12I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
  1192. p. 116, line 13I see granite bowlders and cliffs, I see green meadows and lakes,
  1193. p. 116, line 15I see them raised high with stones by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits when they wearied of their quiet graves might rise up through the mounds and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refresh'd by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
  1194. p. 116, line 17I see the tumuli of Mongolia, I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs,
  1195. p. 116, line 18I see the nomadic tribes with herds of oxen and cows,
  1196. p. 116, line 19I see the table-lands notch'd with ravines, I see the jungles and deserts,
  1197. p. 116, line 20I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail'd sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.
  1198. p. 116, line 22I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
  1199. p. 116, line 23And see fields of teff-wheat and places of verdure and gold.
  1200. p. 117, line 5I see the regions of snow and ice,
  1201. p. 117, line 6I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn,
  1202. p. 117, line 9I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crews of the south Pacific and the north Atlantic,
  1203. p. 117, line 10I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters and the isolation.
  1204. p. 117, line 11I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them,
  1205. p. 117, line 18I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
  1206. p. 117, line 20I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison'd splint, the fetich, and the obi.
  1207. p. 117, line 21I see African and Asiatic towns,
  1208. p. 117, line 24I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts,
  1209. p. 117, line 26I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva and those of Herat,
  1210. p. 117, line 27I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, I see the caravans toiling onward,
  1211. p. 118, line 1I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks,
  1212. p. 118, line 8The blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics,
  1213. p. 118, line 10The helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
  1214. p. 118, line 11I see male and female everywhere,
  1215. p. 118, line 14I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race,
  1216. p. 118, line 16And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
  1217. p. 118, line 19You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!
  1218. p. 118, line 23You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
  1219. p. 119, line 1You Bokh horse-herd watching your mares and stallions feeding!
  1220. p. 119, line 3You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!
  1221. p. 119, line 9You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes!
  1222. p. 119, line 15And you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
  1223. p. 119, line 16And you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
  1224. p. 119, line 17Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
  1225. p. 119, line 25You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon for all your glimmering language and spirituality!
  1226. p. 120, line 8My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
  1227. p. 120, line 9I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands,
  1228. p. 120, line 11You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons,
  1229. p. 120, line 15I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence:
  1230. p. 120, line 22For all the haunts and homes of men.
  1231. p. 120, line 23AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road,
  1232. p. 121, line 4Strong and content I travel the open road.
  1233. p. 121, line 10I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever I go,
  1234. p. 121, line 12I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)
  1235. p. 121, line 13You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
  1236. p. 121, line 23You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
  1237. p. 121, line 24You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
  1238. p. 121, line 28You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
  1239. p. 122, line 2You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
  1240. p. 122, line 4You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
  1241. p. 122, line 6From all that has touch'd you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
  1242. p. 122, line 7From the living and the dead you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable with me.
  1243. p. 122, line 8The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
  1244. p. 122, line 10The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
  1245. p. 122, line 14Do you say I am already prepared, I am well-beaten and undenied, adhere to me?
  1246. p. 122, line 18I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air, and all free poems also,
  1247. p. 122, line 19I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
  1248. p. 122, line 20I think whatever I shall meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me,
  1249. p. 122, line 22From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,
  1250. p. 122, line 23Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,
  1251. p. 123, line 2The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
  1252. p. 123, line 6I can repeat over to men and women You have done such good to me I would do the same to you,
  1253. p. 123, line 7I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
  1254. p. 123, line 8I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
  1255. p. 123, line 9I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
  1256. p. 123, line 11Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.
  1257. p. 123, line 15It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  1258. p. 123, line 18Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
  1259. p. 123, line 23Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
  1260. p. 123, line 24Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
  1261. p. 123, line 26Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
  1262. p. 123, line 27They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
  1263. p. 124, line 5Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
  1264. p. 124, line 6Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?
  1265. p. 124, line 13Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
  1266. p. 124, line 14Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
  1267. p. 124, line 15Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
  1268. p. 124, line 16(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and always drop fruit as I pass;)
  1269. p. 124, line 19What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
  1270. p. 124, line 20What gives me to be free to a woman's and man's good-will? what gives them to be free to mine?
  1271. p. 124, line 24Here rises the fluid and attaching character,
  1272. p. 124, line 25The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
  1273. p. 124, line 26(The herbs of the morning sprout no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
  1274. p. 125, line 1Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
  1275. p. 125, line 2From it falls distill'd the charm that mocks beauty and attainments,
  1276. p. 125, line 7The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
  1277. p. 125, line 12However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
  1278. p. 125, line 15We will sail pathless and wild seas,
  1279. p. 125, line 16We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
  1280. p. 125, line 20From your formules, O bat-eyed and materialistic priests.
  1281. p. 125, line 24None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
  1282. p. 125, line 26Only those may come who come in sweet and determin'd bodies,
  1283. p. 126, line 1(I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
  1284. p. 126, line 9You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those who remain behind you,
  1285. p. 126, line 12Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
  1286. p. 126, line 13They too are on the road—they are the swift and majestic men—they are the greatest women,
  1287. p. 126, line 14Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,
  1288. p. 126, line 17Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
  1289. p. 126, line 18Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
  1290. p. 126, line 24Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded and well-grain'd manhood,
  1291. p. 127, line 3To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
  1292. p. 127, line 5To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
  1293. p. 127, line 6To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
  1294. p. 127, line 7To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
  1295. p. 127, line 10To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa, and the chaste blessings of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards and flowers of gardens,
  1296. p. 127, line 12To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
  1297. p. 127, line 17All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
  1298. p. 127, line 18Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
  1299. p. 128, line 2You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
  1300. p. 128, line 4It is useless to protest, I know all and expose it.
  1301. p. 128, line 7Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those wash'd and trimm'd faces,
  1302. p. 128, line 8Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.
  1303. p. 128, line 10Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes,
  1304. p. 128, line 11Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,
  1305. p. 128, line 13Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bedroom, everywhere,
  1306. p. 128, line 15Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
  1307. p. 128, line 18Allons! through struggles and wars!
  1308. p. 129, line 1Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
  1309. p. 129, line 4Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.
  1310. p. 129, line 12Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me!
  1311. p. 129, line 13On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
  1312. p. 129, line 14And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
  1313. p. 129, line 17The similitudes of the past and those of the future,
  1314. p. 129, line 18The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings, on the walk in the street and the passage over the river,
  1315. p. 129, line 19The current rushing so swiftly and swimming with me far away,
  1316. p. 129, line 20The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
  1317. p. 129, line 22Others will enter the gates of the ferry and cross from shore to shore,
  1318. p. 130, line 2Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
  1319. p. 130, line 3Others will see the islands large and small;
  1320. p. 130, line 8I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
  1321. p. 130, line 9Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
  1322. p. 130, line 11Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh'd,
  1323. p. 130, line 12Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,
  1324. p. 130, line 13Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
  1325. p. 130, line 14I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old,
  1326. p. 130, line 16Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left the rest in strong shadow,
  1327. p. 130, line 17Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
  1328. p. 130, line 21Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and south-westward,
  1329. p. 130, line 25Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
  1330. p. 130, line 28The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses,
  1331. p. 131, line 3The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,
  1332. p. 131, line 4The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks,
  1333. p. 131, line 6On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
  1334. p. 131, line 7Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
  1335. p. 131, line 8These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,
  1336. p. 131, line 9I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river,
  1337. p. 131, line 10The men and women I saw were all near to me,
  1338. p. 131, line 12(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
  1339. p. 131, line 15Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not,
  1340. p. 131, line 17I too walk'd the streets of Manhattan island, and bathed in the waters around it,
  1341. p. 131, line 23That I was I knew was of my body, and what I should be I knew I should be of my body.
  1342. p. 132, line 1The best I had done seem'd to me blank and suspicious,
  1343. p. 132, line 12Was one with the rest, the days and haps of the rest,
  1344. p. 132, line 19Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
  1345. p. 132, line 22I consider'd long and seriously of you before you were born.
  1346. p. 132, line 26Ah, what can ever be more stately and admirable to me than mast-hemm'd Manhattan?
  1347. p. 132, line 27River and sunset and scallop-edg'd waves of flood-tide?
  1348. p. 132, line 28The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter?
  1349. p. 133, line 1What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach?
  1350. p. 133, line 3Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you?
  1351. p. 133, line 7Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
  1352. p. 133, line 8Frolic on, crested and scallop-edg'd waves!
  1353. p. 133, line 9Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me!
  1354. p. 133, line 12Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
  1355. p. 133, line 13Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solution!
  1356. p. 133, line 14Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house or street or public assembly!
  1357. p. 133, line 15Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
  1358. p. 133, line 21Receive the summer sky, you water, and faithfully hold it till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you!
  1359. p. 133, line 25Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses!
  1360. p. 134, line 3About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas,
  1361. p. 134, line 4Thrive, cities—bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers,
  1362. p. 134, line 8We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
  1363. p. 134, line 10We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
  1364. p. 134, line 15To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
  1365. p. 134, line 17How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
  1366. p. 134, line 19And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right hand in my left hand and his left hand in my right hand,
  1367. p. 134, line 20And I answer for his brother and for men, and I answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs.
  1368. p. 134, line 21Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is decisive and final,
  1369. p. 134, line 23Him they immerse and he immerses them.
  1370. p. 135, line 2The profound earth and its attributes and the unquiet ocean, (so tell I my morning's romanza,)
  1371. p. 135, line 3All enjoyments and properties and money, and whatever money will buy,
  1372. p. 135, line 4The best farms, others toiling and planting and he unavoidably reaps,
  1373. p. 135, line 5The noblest and costliest cities, others grading and building and he domiciles there,
  1374. p. 135, line 6Nothing for any one but what is for him, near and far are for him, the ships in the offing,
  1375. p. 135, line 7The perpetual shows and marches on land are for him if they are for anybody.
  1376. p. 135, line 9He puts to-day out of himself with plasticity and love,
  1377. p. 135, line 10He places his own times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them.
  1378. p. 135, line 12What can be answer'd he answers, and what cannot be answer'd he shows how it cannot be answer'd.
  1379. p. 135, line 13A man is a summons and challenge,
  1380. p. 135, line 14(It is vain to skulk—do you hear that mocking and laughter? do you hear the ironical echoes?)
  1381. p. 135, line 15Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down seeking to give satisfaction,
  1382. p. 135, line 16He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
  1383. p. 135, line 17Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently and safely by day or by night,
  1384. p. 135, line 21Every existence has its idiom, every thing has an idiom and tongue,
  1385. p. 136, line 1He resolves all tongues into his own and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
  1386. p. 136, line 3He says indifferently and alike How are you friend? to the President at his levee,
  1387. p. 136, line 4And he says Good-day my brother, to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
  1388. p. 136, line 5And both understand him and know that his speech is right.
  1389. p. 136, line 7He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another, Here is our equal appearing and new.
  1390. p. 136, line 9And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he has follow'd the sea,
  1391. p. 136, line 10And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
  1392. p. 136, line 11And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
  1393. p. 136, line 13No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
  1394. p. 136, line 15A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.
  1395. p. 136, line 17The Italian or Frenchman is sure, the German is sure, the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure,
  1396. p. 136, line 22The indications and tally of time,
  1397. p. 137, line 2What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words,
  1398. p. 137, line 3The words of the singers are the hours or minutes of the light or dark, but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
  1399. p. 137, line 5His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
  1400. p. 137, line 6He is the glory and extract thus far of things and of the human race.
  1401. p. 137, line 12All this time and at all times wait the words of true poems,
  1402. p. 137, line 15The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers,
  1403. p. 137, line 16The words of true poems are the tuft and final applause of science.
  1404. p. 137, line 19The sailor and traveler underlie the maker of poems, the Answerer,
  1405. p. 137, line 22They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, and every thing else,
  1406. p. 137, line 23They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
  1407. p. 138, line 4They bring none to his or her terminus or to be content and full,
  1408. p. 138, line 6To launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings and never be quiet again.
  1409. p. 138, line 8Always Florida's green peninsula—always the priceless delta of Louisiana—always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas,
  1410. p. 138, line 9Always California's golden hills and hollows, and the silver mountains of New Mexico—always soft-breath'd Cuba,
  1411. p. 138, line 10Always the vast slope drain'd by the Southern sea, inseparable with the slopes drain'd by the Eastern and Western seas,
  1412. p. 138, line 11The area the eighty-third year of these States, the three and a half millions of square miles,
  1413. p. 138, line 12The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,
  1414. p. 138, line 13The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings—always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
  1415. p. 138, line 14Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy;
  1416. p. 139, line 2Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on the valleys of the Potomac and Rappahannock, and the valleys of the Roanoke and Delaware,
  1417. p. 139, line 10In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,
  1418. p. 139, line 13Below, the red cedar festoon'd with tylandria, the pines and cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,
  1419. p. 139, line 14Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with color'd flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,
  1420. p. 139, line 15The waving drapery on the live-oak trailing long and low, noiselessly waved by the wind,
  1421. p. 139, line 16The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
  1422. p. 139, line 18The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees, the flames with the black smoke from the pitch-pine curling and rising;
  1423. p. 139, line 19Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North Carolina's coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work'd by horses, the clearing, curing, and packing-houses;
  1424. p. 140, line 2In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,
  1425. p. 140, line 3In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcom'd and kiss'd by the aged mulatto nurse,
  1426. p. 140, line 5Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle, others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;
  1427. p. 140, line 7There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree;
  1428. p. 140, line 10The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;
  1429. p. 140, line 12Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks and wharves;
  1430. p. 140, line 13Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
  1431. p. 140, line 14In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,
  1432. p. 140, line 15The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
  1433. p. 140, line 16The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,
  1434. p. 140, line 17The setting out of the war-party, the long and stealthy march,
  1435. p. 140, line 18The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
  1436. p. 140, line 21Me pleas'd, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,
  1437. p. 141, line 3The country boy at the close of the day driving the herd of cows and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the roadside,
  1438. p. 141, line 7The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended, balancing in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;
  1439. p. 141, line 15Otherways there atwixt the banks of the Arkansaw, the Rio Grande, the Nueces, the Brazos, the Tombigbee, the Red River, the Saskatchawan or the Osage, I with the spring waters laughing and skipping and running,
  1440. p. 141, line 16Northward, on the sands, on some shallow bay of Paumanok, I with parties of snowy herons wading in the wet to seek worms and aquatic plants,
  1441. p. 141, line 17Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amusement—and I triumphantly twittering,
  1442. p. 141, line 18The migrating flock of wild geese alighting in autumn to refresh themselves, the body of the flock feed, the sentinels outside move around with erect heads watching, and are from time to time reliev'd by other sentinels—and I feeding and taking turns with the rest,
  1443. p. 142, line 1In Kanadian forests the moose, large as an ox, corner'd by hunters, rising desperately on his hind-feet, and plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—and I, plunging at the hunters, corner'd and desperate,
  1444. p. 142, line 2In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store-houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
  1445. p. 142, line 3And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof—and no less in myself than the whole of the Mannahatta in itself,
  1446. p. 142, line 4Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made out of a thousand diverse contributions one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united and made ONE IDENTITY;
  1447. p. 142, line 6Cities, labors, death, animals, products, war, good and evil—these me,
  1448. p. 142, line 7These affording, in all their particulars, the old feuillage to me and to America, how can I do less than pass the clew of the union of them, to afford the like to you?
  1449. p. 142, line 12Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.
  1450. p. 142, line 13O for the voices of animals—O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!
  1451. p. 142, line 15O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song!
  1452. p. 142, line 18I will have thousands of globes and all time.
  1453. p. 142, line 21To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance.
  1454. p. 143, line 1O the gleesome saunter over fields and hillsides!
  1455. p. 143, line 2The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds, the moist fresh stillness of the woods,
  1456. p. 143, line 3The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon.
  1457. p. 143, line 4O the horseman's and horsewoman's joys!
  1458. p. 143, line 5The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
  1459. p. 143, line 11O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
  1460. p. 143, line 15The joy of soothing and pacifying, the joy of concord and harmony.
  1461. p. 143, line 18To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more,
  1462. p. 143, line 19And through the orchard and along the old lanes once more.
  1463. p. 143, line 21To continue and be employ'd there all my life,
  1464. p. 143, line 22The briny and damp smell, the shore, the salt weeds exposed at low water,
  1465. p. 143, line 23The work of fishermen, the work of the eel-fisher and clam-fisher;
  1466. p. 143, line 24I come with my clam-rake and spade, I come with my eel-spear,
  1467. p. 143, line 26I laugh and work with them, I joke at my work like a mettlesome young man;
  1468. p. 144, line 1In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear and travel out on foot on the ice—I have a small axe to cut holes in the ice,
  1469. p. 144, line 3My brood of grown and part-grown boys, who love to be with no one else so well as they love to be with me,
  1470. p. 144, line 4By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
  1471. p. 144, line 8I go to all the places one after another, and then row back to the shore,
  1472. p. 144, line 15In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
  1473. p. 144, line 18The ships sailing, the Thousand Islands, the occasional timber-raft and the raftsmen with long-reaching sweep-oars,
  1474. p. 144, line 19The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke when they cook supper at evening.
  1475. p. 144, line 20(O something pernicious and dread!
  1476. p. 144, line 21Something far away from a puny and pious life!
  1477. p. 144, line 23Something escaped from the anchorage and driving free.)
  1478. p. 145, line 2Foundry casting, the foundry itself, the rude high roof, the ample and shadow'd space,
  1479. p. 145, line 3The furnace, the hot liquid pour'd out and running.
  1480. p. 145, line 7To go to battle—to hear the bugles play and the drums beat!
  1481. p. 145, line 8To hear the crash of artillery—to see the glittering of the bayonets and musket-barrels in the sun!
  1482. p. 145, line 9To see men fall and die and not complain!
  1483. p. 145, line 11To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.
  1484. p. 145, line 17We approach stealthy and silent, I see the mountainous mass, lethargic, basking,
  1485. p. 145, line 23As he rises he spouts blood, I see him swim in circles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
  1486. p. 145, line 24He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the circle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
  1487. p. 145, line 26My children and grand-children, my white hair and beard,
  1488. p. 146, line 4What beauty is this that descends upon me and rises out of me?
  1489. p. 146, line 6To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
  1490. p. 146, line 9O the joy of my soul leaning pois'd on itself, receiving identity through materials and loving them, observing characters and absorbing them,
  1491. p. 146, line 10My soul vibrated back to me from them, from sight, hearing, touch, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like,
  1492. p. 146, line 11The real life of my senses and flesh transcending my senses and flesh,
  1493. p. 146, line 17To rise at peep of day and pass forth nimbly to work,
  1494. p. 146, line 25To emerge and be of the sky, of the sun and moon and flying clouds, as one with them.
  1495. p. 147, line 1To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
  1496. p. 147, line 3To speak with a full and sonorous voice out of a broad chest,
  1497. p. 147, line 6Joys of the dear companions and of the merry word and laughing face?
  1498. p. 147, line 8Joy of sweet music, joy of the lighted ball-room and the dancers?
  1499. p. 147, line 9Joy of the plenteous dinner, strong carouse and drinking?
  1500. p. 147, line 12Joys of the free and lonesome heart, the tender, gloomy heart?
  1501. p. 147, line 13Joys of the solitary walk, the spirit bow'd yet proud, the suffering and the struggle?
  1502. p. 147, line 15Joys of the thought of Death, the great spheres Time and Space?
  1503. p. 147, line 21To these proud laws of the air, the water and the ground, proving my interior soul impregnable,
  1504. p. 147, line 22And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
  1505. p. 147, line 24The beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons,
  1506. p. 148, line 8To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses,
  1507. p. 148, line 9To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship,
  1508. p. 148, line 10To sail and sail and sail!
  1509. p. 148, line 14A ship itself, (see indeed these sails I spread to the sun and air,)
  1510. p. 148, line 15A swift and swelling ship full of rich words, full of joys.
  1511. p. 148, line 18Wooded flesh and metal bone, limb only one and lip only one,
  1512. p. 148, line 20Resting the grass amid and upon,
  1513. p. 148, line 21To be lean'd and to lean on.
  1514. p. 148, line 22Strong shapes and attributes of strong shapes, masculine trades, sights and sounds,
  1515. p. 148, line 26Welcome are lands of pine and oak,
  1516. p. 148, line 27Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig,
  1517. p. 149, line 1Welcome are lands of wheat and maize, welcome those of the grape,
  1518. p. 149, line 2Welcome are lands of sugar and rice,
  1519. p. 149, line 3Welcome the cotton-lands, welcome those of the white potato and sweet potato,
  1520. p. 149, line 8Lands rich as lands of gold or wheat and fruit lands,
  1521. p. 149, line 9Lands of mines, lands of the manly and rugged ores,
  1522. p. 149, line 15The wailing and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
  1523. p. 149, line 16The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts,
  1524. p. 149, line 17The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
  1525. p. 149, line 20The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset anywhere,
  1526. p. 149, line 23The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons,
  1527. p. 149, line 24The beauty of wood-boys and wood-men with their clear untrimm'd faces,
  1528. p. 149, line 26The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,
  1529. p. 149, line 28The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
  1530. p. 150, line 3The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
  1531. p. 150, line 8The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their curv'd limbs,
  1532. p. 150, line 9Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
  1533. p. 150, line 15The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
  1534. p. 150, line 17The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
  1535. p. 150, line 18The bricks one after another each laid so workmanlike in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
  1536. p. 150, line 19The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar-boards, and the steady replenishing by the hod-men;
  1537. p. 150, line 23The butter-color'd chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,
  1538. p. 150, line 24The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes,
  1539. p. 151, line 1The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
  1540. p. 151, line 2The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,
  1541. p. 151, line 3The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets, the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders and their execution,
  1542. p. 151, line 4The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors if the fire smoulders under them,
  1543. p. 151, line 5The crowd with their lit faces watching, the glare and dense shadows;
  1544. p. 151, line 6The forger at his forge-furnace and the user of iron after him,
  1545. p. 151, line 7The maker of the axe large and small, and the welder and temperer,
  1546. p. 151, line 8The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel and trying the edge with his thumb,
  1547. p. 151, line 9The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket;
  1548. p. 151, line 11The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers,
  1549. p. 151, line 12The far-off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice,
  1550. p. 151, line 16The death-howl, the limpsy tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
  1551. p. 151, line 18The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
  1552. p. 151, line 20The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumultuously and disorderly,
  1553. p. 151, line 22Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
  1554. p. 151, line 23Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,
  1555. p. 151, line 25The list of all executive deeds and words just or unjust,
  1556. p. 151, line 27Muscle and pluck forever!
  1557. p. 151, line 29And the dead advance as much as the living advance,
  1558. p. 151, line 30And the future is no more uncertain than the present,
  1559. p. 152, line 1For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
  1560. p. 152, line 2And nothing endures but personal qualities.
  1561. p. 152, line 6Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
  1562. p. 152, line 11A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,
  1563. p. 152, line 15Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
  1564. p. 152, line 16Nor the place of the best libraries and schools, nor the place where money is plentiest,
  1565. p. 152, line 18Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
  1566. p. 152, line 19Where the city stands that is belov'd by these, and loves them in return and understands them,
  1567. p. 152, line 20Where no monuments exist to heroes but in the common words and deeds,
  1568. p. 152, line 21Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
  1569. p. 152, line 22Where the men and women think lightly of the laws,
  1570. p. 152, line 23Where the slave ceases, and the master of slaves ceases,
  1571. p. 152, line 25Where fierce men and women pour forth as the sea to the whistle of death pours its sweeping and unript waves,
  1572. p. 153, line 2Where the citizen is always the head and ideal, and President, Mayor, Governor and what not, are agents for pay,
  1573. p. 153, line 3Where children are taught to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves,
  1574. p. 153, line 7Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men;
  1575. p. 153, line 16A strong being is the proof of the race and of the ability of the universe,
  1576. p. 153, line 19The old customs and phrases are confronted, turn'd back, or laid away.
  1577. p. 153, line 27The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplish'd, the hammersmen are at hand with their tongs and hammers,
  1578. p. 153, line 28What always served and always serves is at hand.
  1579. p. 154, line 2Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
  1580. p. 154, line 6Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars and the druids,
  1581. p. 154, line 9Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths, served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
  1582. p. 154, line 11Served before any of those the venerable and harmless men of Ethiopia,
  1583. p. 154, line 12Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure and the making of those for war,
  1584. p. 154, line 13Served all great works on land and all great works on the sea,
  1585. p. 154, line 14For the mediæval ages and before the mediæval ages,
  1586. p. 154, line 17He stands mask'd, clothed in red, with huge legs and strong naked arms,
  1587. p. 154, line 18And leans on a ponderous axe.
  1588. p. 154, line 20Whose is that blood upon you so wet and sticky?)
  1589. p. 154, line 24Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains and the rest.
  1590. p. 154, line 29Both blade and helve are clean,
  1591. p. 155, line 2I see the headsman withdraw and become useless,
  1592. p. 155, line 3I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy, I see no longer any axe upon it,
  1593. p. 155, line 4I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest, largest race.
  1594. p. 155, line 9They tumble forth, they rise and form,
  1595. p. 155, line 17Work-box, chest, string'd instrument, boat, frame, and what not,
  1596. p. 155, line 18Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
  1597. p. 155, line 20Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas.
  1598. p. 155, line 22Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users and all that neighbors them,
  1599. p. 155, line 23Cutters down of wood and haulers of it to the Penobscot or Kennebec,
  1600. p. 155, line 25Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande, friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
  1601. p. 155, line 26Dwellers along the St. Lawrence, or north in Kanada, or down by the Yellowstone, dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
  1602. p. 156, line 5Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake and canal craft, river craft,
  1603. p. 156, line 6Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western seas, and in many a bay and by-place,
  1604. p. 156, line 8The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
  1605. p. 156, line 9The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
  1606. p. 156, line 16The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
  1607. p. 156, line 17The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well-married young man and woman,
  1608. p. 156, line 18The roof over the supper joyously cook'd by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
  1609. p. 156, line 20The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
  1610. p. 156, line 21The shape of the liquor-bar lean'd against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
  1611. p. 156, line 22The shape of the shamed and angry stairs trod by sneaking footsteps,
  1612. p. 156, line 23The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple,
  1613. p. 156, line 24The shape of the gambling-board with its devilish winnings and losings,
  1614. p. 156, line 25The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, the murderer with haggard face and pinion'd arms,
  1615. p. 157, line 1The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipp'd crowd, the dangling of the rope.
  1616. p. 157, line 3Shapes of doors giving many exits and entrances,
  1617. p. 157, line 4The door passing the dissever'd friend flush'd and in haste,
  1618. p. 157, line 5The door that admits good news and bad news,
  1619. p. 157, line 6The door whence the son left home confident and puff'd up,
  1620. p. 157, line 7The door he enter'd again from a long and scandalous absence, diseas'd, broken down, without innocence, without means.
  1621. p. 157, line 10The gross and soil'd she moves among do not make her gross and soil'd,
  1622. p. 157, line 13She is the best belov'd, it is without exception, she has no reason to fear and she does not fear,
  1623. p. 157, line 22Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
  1624. p. 157, line 23Shapes bracing the earth and braced with the whole earth.
  1625. p. 157, line 26The loving Laborer through space and time.)
  1626. p. 158, line 8Long and long has the grass been growing,
  1627. p. 158, line 9Long and long has the rain been falling,
  1628. p. 158, line 11Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia,
  1629. p. 158, line 13That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath, and Æneas', Odysseus' wanderings,
  1630. p. 158, line 14Placard " Removed " and "To Let" on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus,
  1631. p. 158, line 15Repeat at Jerusalem, place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on Mount Moriah,
  1632. p. 158, line 16The same on the walls of your German, French and Spanish castles, and Italian collections,
  1633. p. 158, line 27Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associations, magnetize and hold on to her?
  1634. p. 158, line 28But that she's left them all—and here?
  1635. p. 159, line 3Hidden and cover'd by to-day's, foundation of to-day's,
  1636. p. 159, line 8Ended the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana, ended the quest of the holy Graal,
  1637. p. 159, line 13Arthur vanish'd with all his knights, Merlin and Lancelot and Galahad, all gone, dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation;
  1638. p. 159, line 16Its kings and castles proud, its priests and warlike lords and courtly dames,
  1639. p. 159, line 17Pass'd to its charnel vault, coffin'd with crown and armor on,
  1640. p. 159, line 19And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme.
  1641. p. 159, line 22By thud of machinery and shrill steam-whistle undismay'd,
  1642. p. 159, line 24Smiling and pleas'd with palpable intent to stay,
  1643. p. 160, line 2And ever henceforth sisters dear be both.
  1644. p. 160, line 3Fear not O Muse! truly new ways and days receive, surround you,
  1645. p. 160, line 5And yet the same old human race, the same within, without,
  1646. p. 160, line 6Faces and hearts the same, feelings the same, yearnings the same,
  1647. p. 160, line 7The same old love, beauty and use the same.
  1648. p. 160, line 20E'en while I chant I see it rise, I scan and prophesy outside and in,
  1649. p. 160, line 24High rising tier on tier with glass and iron façades,
  1650. p. 160, line 25Gladdening the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues,
  1651. p. 160, line 26Bronze, lilac, robin's-egg, marine and crimson,
  1652. p. 160, line 28The banners of the States and flags of every land,
  1653. p. 161, line 5Shall be dried, clean'd, ginn'd, baled, spun into thread and cloth before you,
  1654. p. 161, line 6You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new ones,
  1655. p. 161, line 7You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then bread baked by the bakers,
  1656. p. 161, line 8You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and on till they become bullion,
  1657. p. 161, line 9You shall watch how the printer sets type, and learn what a composing-stick is,
  1658. p. 161, line 10You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders, shedding the printed leaves steady and fast,
  1659. p. 161, line 13In another, woods, plants, vegetation shall be illustrated—in another animals, animal life and development.
  1660. p. 161, line 17(This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks,
  1661. p. 161, line 20The male and female many laboring not,
  1662. p. 161, line 23To thee America, and thee eternal Muse.
  1663. p. 161, line 24And here shall ye inhabit powerful Matrons!
  1664. p. 162, line 5That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reasoning men,
  1665. p. 162, line 6And in its stead speed industry's campaigns,
  1666. p. 162, line 9Thy bugles sounding loud and clear.
  1667. p. 162, line 11Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts,
  1668. p. 162, line 15With perfumes, heat and wine, beneath the dazzling chandeliers.
  1669. p. 162, line 17I raise a voice for far superber themes for poets and for art,
  1670. p. 162, line 18To exalt the present and the real,
  1671. p. 162, line 19To teach the average man the glory of his daily walk and trade,
  1672. p. 162, line 20To sing in songs how exercise and chemical life are never to be baffled,
  1673. p. 162, line 21To manual work for each and all, to plough, hoe, dig,
  1674. p. 162, line 22To plant and tend the tree, the berry, vegetables, flowers,
  1675. p. 162, line 24To use the hammer and the saw, (rip, or cross-cut,)
  1676. p. 162, line 28And hold it no disgrace to take a hand at them themselves.
  1677. p. 162, line 29I say I bring thee Muse to-day and here,
  1678. p. 162, line 30All occupations, duties broad and close,
  1679. p. 162, line 31Toil, healthy toil and sweat, endless, without cessation,
  1680. p. 163, line 1The family, parentage, childhood, husband and wife,
  1681. p. 163, line 2The house-comforts, the house itself and all its belongings,
  1682. p. 163, line 3Food and its preservation, chemistry applied to it,
  1683. p. 163, line 5And helps its present life to health and happiness, and shapes its soul,
  1684. p. 163, line 10The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge,
  1685. p. 163, line 13And thou America,
  1686. p. 163, line 15With Victory on thy left, and at thy right hand Law;
  1687. p. 163, line 22And by the spells which ye vouchsafe to those your ministers in earnest,
  1688. p. 163, line 23I here personify and call my themes, to make them pass before ye.
  1689. p. 163, line 24Behold, America! (and thou, ineffable guest and sister!)
  1690. p. 163, line 25For thee come trooping up thy waters and thy lands;
  1691. p. 163, line 26Behold! thy fields and farms, thy far-off woods and mountains,
  1692. p. 163, line 29And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships;
  1693. p. 163, line 30See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind, speckle the green and blue,
  1694. p. 163, line 31See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out of port,
  1695. p. 163, line 32See, dusky and undulating, the long pennants of smoke.
  1696. p. 164, line 1Behold, in Oregon, far in the north and west,
  1697. p. 164, line 2Or in Maine, far in the north and east, thy cheerful axemen,
  1698. p. 164, line 6There by the furnace, and there by the anvil,
  1699. p. 164, line 8Overhand so steady, overhand they turn and fall with joyous clank,
  1700. p. 164, line 14Thy wealthy daughter-states, Eastern and Western,
  1701. p. 164, line 15The varied products of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, and the rest,
  1702. p. 164, line 17Thy barns all fill'd, the endless freight-train and the bulging storehouse,
  1703. p. 164, line 19Thy incalculable lumber, beef, pork, potatoes, thy coal, thy gold and silver,
  1704. p. 164, line 23City and State, North, South, item and aggregate,
  1705. p. 164, line 26For well we know that while thou givest each and all, (generous as God,)
  1706. p. 164, line 30And thou, the Emblem waving over all!
  1707. p. 165, line 2Not quite so trim and whole and freshly blooming in folds of stainless silk,
  1708. p. 165, line 6'Mid cannons' thunder-crash and many a curse and groan and yell, and rifle-volleys cracking sharp,
  1709. p. 165, line 7And moving masses as wild demons surging, and lives as nothing risk'd,
  1710. p. 165, line 8For thy mere remnant grimed with dirt and smoke and sopp'd in blood,
  1711. p. 165, line 9For sake of that, my beauty, and that thou might'st dally as now secure up there,
  1712. p. 165, line 11Now here and these and hence in peace, all thine O Flag!
  1713. p. 165, line 12And here and hence for thee, O universal Muse! and thou for them!
  1714. p. 165, line 13And here and hence O Union, all the work and workmen thine!
  1715. p. 165, line 14None separate from thee—henceforth One only, we and thou,
  1716. p. 165, line 16And lives and works, what are they all at last, except the roads to faith and death?)
  1717. p. 165, line 18We own it all and several to-day indissoluble in thee;
  1718. p. 165, line 20Our farms, inventions, crops, we own in thee! cities and States in thee!
  1719. p. 165, line 23A prophecy and indirection, a thought impalpable to breathe as air,
  1720. p. 165, line 25A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky,
  1721. p. 166, line 2Farewell O earth and sky, farewell ye neighboring waters,
  1722. p. 166, line 5Just back from the rock-bound shore and the caves,
  1723. p. 166, line 7With the surge for base and accompaniment low and hoarse,
  1724. p. 166, line 12The quick-ear'd teamsters and chain and jack-screw men heard not,
  1725. p. 166, line 17Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark,
  1726. p. 166, line 18That chant of the seasons and time, chant not of the past only but the future.
  1727. p. 166, line 20And all you venerable and innocent joys,
  1728. p. 166, line 21Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer sun,
  1729. p. 166, line 22And the white snows and night and the wild winds;
  1730. p. 166, line 25And all the rocks and mountains have, and all the earth,)
  1731. p. 166, line 26Joys of the life befitting me and brothers mine,
  1732. p. 166, line 32And leave the field for them.
  1733. p. 167, line 4In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
  1734. p. 167, line 13(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and scaffolds everywhere,)
  1735. p. 167, line 14But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
  1736. p. 167, line 20You womanhood divine, mistress and source of all, whence life and love and aught that comes from life and love,
  1737. p. 167, line 22You that, sometimes known, oftener unknown, really shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space,
  1738. p. 167, line 24You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued, may-be unconscious of yourselves,
  1739. p. 168, line 8In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains, and the music of choppers' axes,
  1740. p. 168, line 9The falling trunk and limbs, the crash, the muffled shriek, the groan,
  1741. p. 168, line 10Such words combined from the redwood-tree, as of voices ecstatic, ancient and rustling,
  1742. p. 168, line 12All their recesses of forests and mountains leaving,
  1743. p. 168, line 15The chorus and indications, the vistas of coming humanity, the settlements, features all,
  1744. p. 168, line 17The flashing and golden pageant of California,
  1745. p. 168, line 18The sudden and gorgeous drama, the sunny and ample lands,
  1746. p. 168, line 19The long and varied stretch from Puget sound to Colorado south,
  1747. p. 168, line 20Lands bathed in sweeter, rarer, healthier air, valleys and mountain cliffs,
  1748. p. 168, line 21The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow, the silent, cyclic chemistry,
  1749. p. 168, line 22The slow and steady ages plodding, the unoccupied surface ripening, the rich ores forming beneath;
  1750. p. 168, line 24A swarming and busy race settling and organizing everywhere,
  1751. p. 168, line 25Ships coming in from the whole round world, and going out to the whole world,
  1752. p. 168, line 26To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises of the Pacific,
  1753. p. 168, line 28And wool and wheat and the grape, and diggings of yellow gold.
  1754. p. 169, line 9I see the genius of the modern, child of the real and ideal,
  1755. p. 169, line 13In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find the developments,
  1756. p. 169, line 14And find the eternal meanings.
  1757. p. 169, line 15Workmen and Workwomen!
  1758. p. 169, line 16Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of me, what would it amount to?
  1759. p. 169, line 18Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
  1760. p. 169, line 19The learn'd, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms,
  1761. p. 169, line 20A man like me and never the usual terms.
  1762. p. 169, line 23I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
  1763. p. 170, line 5If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlaw'd deeds?
  1764. p. 170, line 7If you meet some stranger in the streets and love him or her, why I often meet strangers in the street and love them.
  1765. p. 170, line 14Or from frivolity or impotence, or that you are no scholar and never saw your name in print,
  1766. p. 170, line 16Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
  1767. p. 170, line 17It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
  1768. p. 170, line 19Grown, half-grown and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and out-doors, one just as much as the other, I see,
  1769. p. 170, line 20And all else behind or through them.
  1770. p. 170, line 21The wife, and she is not one jot less than the husband,
  1771. p. 170, line 22The daughter, and she is just as good as the son,
  1772. p. 170, line 23The mother, and she is every bit as much as the father.
  1773. p. 170, line 24Offspring of ignorant and poor, boys apprenticed to trades,
  1774. p. 170, line 25Young fellows working on farms and old fellows working on farms,
  1775. p. 171, line 1All these I see, but nigher and farther the same I see,
  1776. p. 171, line 2None shall escape me and none shall wish to escape me.
  1777. p. 171, line 6There is something that comes to one now and perpetually,
  1778. p. 171, line 7It is not what is printed, preach'd, discussed, it eludes discussion and print,
  1779. p. 171, line 9It is for you whoever you are, it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
  1780. p. 171, line 12You may read the President's message and read nothing about it there,
  1781. p. 171, line 15The sun and stars that float in the open air,
  1782. p. 171, line 16The apple-shaped earth and we upon it, surely the drift of them is something grand,
  1783. p. 171, line 17I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
  1784. p. 171, line 18And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
  1785. p. 171, line 19And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
  1786. p. 171, line 20And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
  1787. p. 171, line 21The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things,
  1788. p. 171, line 22The endless pride and outstretching of man, unspeakable joys and sorrows,
  1789. p. 171, line 23The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever,
  1790. p. 172, line 3Have you reckon'd that the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
  1791. p. 172, line 4Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
  1792. p. 172, line 5Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?
  1793. p. 172, line 6Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
  1794. p. 172, line 7Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
  1795. p. 172, line 9Old institutions, these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures, will we rate them so high?
  1796. p. 172, line 10Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
  1797. p. 172, line 11I rate them as high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
  1798. p. 172, line 12We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
  1799. p. 172, line 13I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
  1800. p. 172, line 15Then I am in love with You, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
  1801. p. 172, line 16We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
  1802. p. 172, line 17I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
  1803. p. 172, line 24Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.
  1804. p. 173, line 2Doctrines, politics and civilization exurge from you,
  1805. p. 173, line 3Sculpture and monuments and any thing inscribed anywhere are tallied in you,
  1806. p. 173, line 4The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
  1807. p. 173, line 5If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
  1808. p. 173, line 6The most renown'd poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.
  1809. p. 173, line 8(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?)
  1810. p. 173, line 10It is not the violins and the cornets, it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza, nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,
  1811. p. 173, line 11It is nearer and farther than they.
  1812. p. 173, line 15Strange and hard that paradox true I give,
  1813. p. 173, line 16Objects gross and the unseen soul are one.
  1814. p. 173, line 20The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal-kiln and brick-kiln,
  1815. p. 173, line 21Coal-mines and all that is down there, the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, what vast native thoughts looking through smutch'd faces,
  1816. p. 174, line 1The blast-furnace and the puddling-furnace, the loup-lump at the bottom of the melt at last, the rolling-mill, the stumpy bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T-rail for railroads,
  1817. p. 174, line 2Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar-house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories,
  1818. p. 174, line 4The calking-iron, the kettle of boiling vault-cement, and the fire under the kettle,
  1819. p. 174, line 5The cotton-bale, the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, the mould of the moulder, the working-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice,
  1820. p. 174, line 6The work and tools of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker,
  1821. p. 174, line 8The veneer and glue-pot, the confectioner's ornaments, the decanter and glasses, the shears and flat-iron,
  1822. p. 174, line 9The awl and knee-strap, the pint measure and quart measure, the counter and stool, the writing-pen of quill or metal, the making of all sorts of edged tools,
  1823. p. 174, line 14Pyrotechny, letting off color'd fireworks at night, fancy figures and jets;
  1824. p. 174, line 16The pens of live pork, the killing-hammer, the hog-hook, the scalder's tub, gutting, the cutter's cleaver, the packer's maul, and the plenteous winterwork of pork-packing,
  1825. p. 174, line 17Flour-works, grinding of wheat, rye, maize, rice, the barrels and the half and quarter barrels, the loaded barges, the high piles on wharves and levees,
  1826. p. 174, line 18The men and the work of the men on ferries, railroads, coasters, fish-boats, canals;
  1827. p. 175, line 1These shows all near you by day and night—workman! whoever you are, your daily life!
  1828. p. 175, line 2In that and them the heft of the heaviest—in that and them far more than you estimated, (and far less also,)
  1829. p. 175, line 3In them realities for you and me, in them poems for you and me,
  1830. p. 175, line 4In them, not yourself—you and your soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
  1831. p. 175, line 14The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
  1832. p. 175, line 15You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine and strong life,
  1833. p. 175, line 16And all else giving place to men and women like you.
  1834. p. 175, line 19When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting desk,
  1835. p. 175, line 20When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
  1836. p. 175, line 21When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
  1837. p. 175, line 23When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly companions,
  1838. p. 175, line 24I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
  1839. p. 176, line 1A SONG of the rolling earth, and of words according,
  1840. p. 176, line 3No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
  1841. p. 176, line 14The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
  1842. p. 176, line 16The masters know the earth's words and use them more than audible words.
  1843. p. 176, line 20It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.
  1844. p. 177, line 3Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter,
  1845. p. 177, line 8Will you squat and stifle there?)
  1846. p. 177, line 20The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail and reflection does not fail,
  1847. p. 177, line 21Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
  1848. p. 177, line 24Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
  1849. p. 177, line 27With the fascinations of youth and the equal fascinations of age,
  1850. p. 177, line 31Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
  1851. p. 178, line 3Duly approach and pass with their companions or a companion,
  1852. p. 178, line 8From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
  1853. p. 178, line 10Embracing man, embracing all, proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun;
  1854. p. 178, line 11Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, sure and necessary as they.
  1855. p. 178, line 14The soul's realization and determination still inheriting,
  1856. p. 178, line 15The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
  1857. p. 178, line 18Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
  1858. p. 178, line 20Whoever you are! motion and reflection are especially for you,
  1859. p. 178, line 22Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
  1860. p. 178, line 23You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
  1861. p. 178, line 24For none more than you are the present and the past,
  1862. p. 178, line 26Each man to himself and each woman to herself, is the word of the past and present, and the true word of immortality;
  1863. p. 178, line 29The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
  1864. p. 178, line 30The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
  1865. p. 179, line 1The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him,
  1866. p. 179, line 2The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,
  1867. p. 179, line 3The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him,
  1868. p. 179, line 4The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail,
  1869. p. 179, line 5The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience,
  1870. p. 179, line 6And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
  1871. p. 179, line 8The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
  1872. p. 179, line 14It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
  1873. p. 179, line 17Toward him who sings the songs of the body and of the truths of the earth,
  1874. p. 180, line 4The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
  1875. p. 180, line 6But the soul is also real, it too is positive and direct,
  1876. p. 180, line 9These to echo the tones of souls and the phrases of souls,
  1877. p. 180, line 18When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
  1878. p. 180, line 20I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
  1879. p. 180, line 21The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all,
  1880. p. 180, line 22He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
  1881. p. 180, line 26Day full-blown and splendid—day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
  1882. p. 180, line 27The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.
  1883. p. 181, line 5Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
  1884. p. 181, line 6Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
  1885. p. 181, line 23From the huge festering trunk, from craft and guile and tears,
  1886. p. 181, line 24Health to emerge and joy, joy universal.
  1887. p. 181, line 25Out of the bulk, the morbid and the shallow,
  1888. p. 181, line 26Out of the bad majority, the varied countless frauds of men and states,
  1889. p. 182, line 1Over the mountain-growths disease and sorrow,
  1890. p. 182, line 14And thou America,
  1891. p. 182, line 15For the scheme's culmination, its thought and its reality,
  1892. p. 182, line 18Embracing carrying welcoming all, thou too by pathways broad and new,
  1893. p. 182, line 22Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,
  1894. p. 182, line 27The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain,
  1895. p. 182, line 32Belief in plan of Thee enclosed in Time and Space,
  1896. p. 183, line 3And failing it life's lore and wealth a dream,
  1897. p. 183, line 4And all the world a dream.
  1898. p. 183, line 14So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
  1899. p. 183, line 18Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied over there beyond the seas?
  1900. p. 183, line 19We take up the task eternal, and the burden and the lesson,
  1901. p. 183, line 23Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march,
  1902. p. 183, line 30We the rivers stemming, vexing we and piercing deep the mines within,
  1903. p. 184, line 2From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus,
  1904. p. 184, line 3From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come,
  1905. p. 184, line 11O I mourn and yet exult, I am rapt with love for all,
  1906. p. 184, line 15Raise the fang'd and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon'd mistress,
  1907. p. 184, line 21On and on the compact ranks,
  1908. p. 184, line 23Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping,
  1909. p. 184, line 26Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come?
  1910. p. 184, line 27Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill'd,
  1911. p. 185, line 1Life's involv'd and varied pageants,
  1912. p. 185, line 2All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,
  1913. p. 185, line 3All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves,
  1914. p. 185, line 6All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
  1915. p. 185, line 9I too with my soul and body,
  1916. p. 185, line 14Lo, the brother orbs around, all the clustering suns and planets,
  1917. p. 185, line 22O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives!
  1918. p. 185, line 27Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us,
  1919. p. 185, line 30Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious,
  1920. p. 185, line 31Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment,
  1921. p. 185, line 34Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors?
  1922. p. 185, line 35Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground,
  1923. p. 186, line 6Far, far off the daybreak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind,
  1924. p. 186, line 10I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands,
  1925. p. 186, line 12Your true soul and body appear before me,
  1926. p. 186, line 16I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
  1927. p. 186, line 17O I have been dilatory and dumb,
  1928. p. 186, line 20I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you,
  1929. p. 187, line 1Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre-figure of all,
  1930. p. 187, line 4From my hand from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
  1931. p. 187, line 5O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
  1932. p. 187, line 11Underneath them and within them I see you lurk,
  1933. p. 187, line 23These shows of the East and West are tame compared to you,
  1934. p. 187, line 24These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense and interminable as they,
  1935. p. 188, line 7A GREAT year and place,
  1936. p. 188, line 16Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
  1937. p. 188, line 19Here too the blaze, the grape-shot and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need,
  1938. p. 188, line 21Here too could rise at last murdering and ecstatic,
  1939. p. 188, line 24And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
  1940. p. 189, line 1But remember the little voice that I heard wailing, and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
  1941. p. 189, line 2And from to-day sad and cogent I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands,
  1942. p. 189, line 3And I send these words to Paris with my love,
  1943. p. 189, line 4And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
  1944. p. 189, line 7O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
  1945. p. 189, line 11MYSELF and mine gymnastic ever,
  1946. p. 189, line 13To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
  1947. p. 189, line 14And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
  1948. p. 189, line 17But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
  1949. p. 189, line 19But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous supreme Gods, that the States may realize them walking and talking.
  1950. p. 189, line 22Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation and conflict,
  1951. p. 189, line 24(Who are you? and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?
  1952. p. 189, line 25Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all your life?
  1953. p. 189, line 26And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
  1954. p. 190, line 3I start them by exhaustless laws as Nature does, fresh and modern continually.
  1955. p. 190, line 8Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
  1956. p. 190, line 9What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
  1957. p. 190, line 17Every hour the semen of centuries, and still of centuries.
  1958. p. 190, line 21I would bind in words retrospective some of your deeds and signs,
  1959. p. 190, line 25I stood very near you old man when cool and indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;)
  1960. p. 191, line 2The tables of population and products, I would sing of your ships and their cargoes,
  1961. p. 191, line 5And you would I sing, fair stripling! welcome to you from me, young prince of England!
  1962. p. 191, line 7There in the crowds stood I, and singled you out with attachment;)
  1963. p. 191, line 9Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long,
  1964. p. 191, line 12Nor the strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads,
  1965. p. 191, line 14Then departed, dropt in the night, and was gone;)
  1966. p. 191, line 15Of such, and fitful as they, I sing—with gleams from them would I gleam and patch these chants,
  1967. p. 191, line 16Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good—year of forebodings!
  1968. p. 191, line 17Year of comets and meteors transient and strange—lo! even here one equally transient and strange!
  1969. p. 191, line 18As I flit through you hastily, soon to fall and be gone, what is this chant,
  1970. p. 191, line 21With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,
  1971. p. 191, line 23With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome,
  1972. p. 191, line 24With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon,
  1973. p. 192, line 1With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys,
  1974. p. 192, line 2With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,
  1975. p. 192, line 3With the sale of slaves, with enthusiasts, with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk,
  1976. p. 192, line 5With the fading kingdoms and kings over there,
  1977. p. 192, line 6With the fading religions and priests,
  1978. p. 192, line 7With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present shores,
  1979. p. 192, line 8With countless years drawing themselves onward and arrived at these years,
  1980. p. 192, line 9You and me arrived—America arrived and making this year,
  1981. p. 192, line 12We touch all laws and tally all antecedents,
  1982. p. 192, line 13We are the skald, the oracle, the monk and the knight, we easily include them and more,
  1983. p. 192, line 14We stand amid time beginningless and endless, we stand amid evil and good,
  1984. p. 192, line 16The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
  1985. p. 192, line 17Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.
  1986. p. 192, line 19I have the idea of all, and am all and believe in all,
  1987. p. 192, line 20I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part.
  1988. p. 192, line 22Come to me whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.)
  1989. p. 192, line 23I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews,
  1990. p. 192, line 24I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god,
  1991. p. 192, line 27And that they could no-how have been better than they were,
  1992. p. 192, line 28And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is,
  1993. p. 192, line 29And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.
  1994. p. 193, line 1In the name of these States and in your and my name, the Past,
  1995. p. 193, line 2And in the name of these States and in your and my name, the Present time.
  1996. p. 193, line 3I know that the past was great and the future will be great,
  1997. p. 193, line 4And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time,
  1998. p. 193, line 6And that where I am or you are this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
  1999. p. 193, line 7And there is the meaning to us of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
  2000. p. 193, line 18When the round-mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit their salutes,
  2001. p. 193, line 19When the fire-flashing guns have fully alerted me, and heaven-clouds canopy my city with a delicate thin haze,
  2002. p. 193, line 22When pennants trail and street-festoons hang from the windows,
  2003. p. 194, line 1When Broadway is entirely given up to foot-passengers and foot-standers, when the mass is densest,
  2004. p. 194, line 5I too arising, answering, descend to the pavements, merge with the crowd, and gaze with them.
  2005. p. 194, line 9Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the space between,
  2006. p. 194, line 14Sultry with perfume, with ample and flowing garments,
  2007. p. 194, line 15With sunburnt visage, with intense soul and glittering eyes,
  2008. p. 194, line 17See my cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession,
  2009. p. 194, line 20Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears, the Asiatic continent itself appears, the past, the dead,
  2010. p. 194, line 21The murky night-morning of wonder and fable inscrutable,
  2011. p. 194, line 22The envelop'd mysteries, the old and unknown hive-bees,
  2012. p. 194, line 24Vast desolated cities, the gliding present, all of these and more are in the pageant-procession.
  2013. p. 195, line 2The swarming market-places, the temples with idols ranged along the sides or at the end, bonze, brahmin, and llama,
  2014. p. 195, line 3Mandarin, farmer, merchant, mechanic, and fisherman,
  2015. p. 195, line 4The singing-girl and the dancing-girl, the ecstatic persons, the secluded emperors,
  2016. p. 195, line 5Confucius himself, the great poets and heroes, the warriors, the castes, all,
  2017. p. 195, line 7From Thibet, from the four winding and far-flowing rivers of China,
  2018. p. 195, line 8From the southern peninsulas and the demi-continental islands, from Malaysia,
  2019. p. 195, line 9These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me, and are seiz'd by me,
  2020. p. 195, line 10And I am seiz'd by them, and friendlily held by them,
  2021. p. 195, line 11Till as here them all I chant, Libertad! for themselves and for you.
  2022. p. 195, line 19My sail-ships and steam-ships threading the archipelagoes,
  2023. p. 195, line 20My stars and stripes fluttering in the wind,
  2024. p. 195, line 24And you Libertad of the world!
  2025. p. 195, line 25You shall sit in the middle well-pois'd thousands and thousands of years,
  2026. p. 196, line 5Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad, for you are all,
  2027. p. 196, line 16Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander'd alone, bareheaded, barefoot,
  2028. p. 196, line 18Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were alive,
  2029. p. 196, line 19Out from the patches of briers and blackberries,
  2030. p. 196, line 21From your memories sad brother, from the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
  2031. p. 196, line 22From under that yellow half-moon late-risen and swollen as if with tears,
  2032. p. 197, line 1From those beginning notes of yearning and love there in the mist,
  2033. p. 197, line 4From the word stronger and more delicious than any,
  2034. p. 197, line 10I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter,
  2035. p. 197, line 14When the lilac-scent was in the air and Fifth-month grass was growing,
  2036. p. 197, line 17And their nest, and four light-green eggs spotted with brown,
  2037. p. 197, line 18And every day the he-bird to and fro near at hand,
  2038. p. 197, line 19And every day the she-bird crouch'd on her nest, silent, with bright eyes,
  2039. p. 197, line 20And every day I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
  2040. p. 197, line 28Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
  2041. p. 197, line 36And thenceforward all summer in the sound of the sea,
  2042. p. 197, line 37And at night under the full of the moon in calmer weather,
  2043. p. 198, line 7I wait and I wait till you blow my mate to me.
  2044. p. 198, line 18Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
  2045. p. 198, line 21Listen'd long and long.
  2046. p. 198, line 26And again another behind embracing and lapping, every one close,
  2047. p. 199, line 1High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves,
  2048. p. 199, line 25And do you wait a moment you husky-nois'd sea,
  2049. p. 200, line 4O I am very sick and sorrowful.
  2050. p. 200, line 8And I singing uselessly, uselessly all the night.
  2051. p. 200, line 18On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling,
  2052. p. 200, line 32And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours,
  2053. p. 201, line 6By the sea under the yellow and sagging moon,
  2054. p. 201, line 14Are you whispering it, and have been all the time, you sea-waves?
  2055. p. 201, line 15Is that it from your liquid rims and wet sands?
  2056. p. 201, line 18Whisper'd me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak,
  2057. p. 201, line 19Lisp'd to me the low and delicious word death,
  2058. p. 201, line 20And again death, death, death, death,
  2059. p. 201, line 23Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over,
  2060. p. 201, line 26But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother,
  2061. p. 201, line 30And with them the key, the word up from the waves,
  2062. p. 201, line 31The word of the sweetest song and all songs,
  2063. p. 201, line 32That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
  2064. p. 202, line 4Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant,
  2065. p. 202, line 9The rim, the sediment that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.
  2066. p. 202, line 11Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea-gluten,
  2067. p. 202, line 14Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
  2068. p. 202, line 19As I list to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck'd,
  2069. p. 202, line 21As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
  2070. p. 202, line 23A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
  2071. p. 202, line 24Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
  2072. p. 202, line 29Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows,
  2073. p. 202, line 31Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.
  2074. p. 203, line 1I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can,
  2075. p. 203, line 2Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
  2076. p. 203, line 5We murmur alike reproachfully rolling sands and drift, knowing not why,
  2077. p. 203, line 6These little shreds indeed standing for you and me and all.
  2078. p. 203, line 11I too have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash'd on your shores,
  2079. p. 203, line 12I too am but a trail of drift and debris,
  2080. p. 203, line 23Rustle not up so hoarse and angry against my feet as I touch you or gather from you.
  2081. p. 203, line 24I mean tenderly by you and all,
  2082. p. 203, line 25I gather for myself and for this phantom looking down where we lead, and following me and mine.
  2083. p. 203, line 26Me and mine, loose windrows, little corpses,
  2084. p. 203, line 27Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
  2085. p. 204, line 1See, the prismatic colors glistening and rolling,)
  2086. p. 204, line 6Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown,
  2087. p. 204, line 16Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,
  2088. p. 204, line 22O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!
  2089. p. 204, line 23O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,
  2090. p. 204, line 29And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,)
  2091. p. 205, line 3With re-appearing day as now so happy and serene,
  2092. p. 205, line 4The rosy and elastic dawn, the flashing sun,
  2093. p. 205, line 8To cope with heaven and earth and sea and hurricane,
  2094. p. 205, line 10Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating,
  2095. p. 205, line 12That sport'st amid the lightning-flash and thunder-cloud,
  2096. p. 205, line 23The beautiful and noble ship with all her precious wealth speeds away gayly and safe.
  2097. p. 206, line 2Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
  2098. p. 206, line 4Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,
  2099. p. 206, line 5And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
  2100. p. 206, line 16They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
  2101. p. 206, line 17The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
  2102. p. 206, line 18The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
  2103. p. 206, line 23I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
  2104. p. 206, line 25(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
  2105. p. 206, line 30Forests at the bottom of the sea, the branches and leaves,
  2106. p. 206, line 31Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, strange flowers and seeds, the thick tangle, openings, and pink turf,
  2107. p. 207, line 1Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and gold, the play of light through the water,
  2108. p. 207, line 2Dumb swimmers there among the rocks, coral, gluten, grass, rushes, and the aliment of the swimmers,
  2109. p. 207, line 4The sperm-whale at the surface blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
  2110. p. 207, line 5The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray,
  2111. p. 207, line 7The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle air breathed by beings like us who walk this sphere,
  2112. p. 207, line 10As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
  2113. p. 207, line 11As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
  2114. p. 207, line 20All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
  2115. p. 207, line 21This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd,
  2116. p. 207, line 22And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
  2117. p. 208, line 1Of unnamed heroes in the ships—of waves spreading and spreading far as the eye can reach,
  2118. p. 208, line 2Of dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing,
  2119. p. 208, line 3And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations,
  2120. p. 208, line 5Of sea-captains young or old, and the mates, and of all intrepid sailors,
  2121. p. 208, line 8Thou sea that pickest and cullest the race in time, and unitest nations,
  2122. p. 208, line 12Ever the stock preserv'd and never lost, though rare, enough for seed preserv'd.)
  2123. p. 208, line 15But do you reserve especially for yourself and for the soul of man one flag above all the rest,
  2124. p. 208, line 17Token of all brave captains and all intrepid sailors and mates,
  2125. p. 208, line 18And all that went down doing their duty,
  2126. p. 208, line 22WILD, wild the storm, and the sea high running,
  2127. p. 208, line 24Shouts of demoniac laughter fitfully piercing and pealing,
  2128. p. 208, line 27On beachy slush and sand spirts of snow fierce slanting,
  2129. p. 208, line 29Through cutting swirl and spray watchful and firm advancing,
  2130. p. 209, line 1Slush and sand of the beach tireless till daylight wending,
  2131. p. 209, line 7After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,
  2132. p. 209, line 10Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
  2133. p. 209, line 12Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
  2134. p. 209, line 13Where the great vessel sailing and tacking displaced the surface,
  2135. p. 209, line 14Larger and smaller waves in the spread of the ocean yearnfully flowing,
  2136. p. 209, line 15The wake of the sea-ship after she passes, flashing and frolicsome under the sun,
  2137. p. 209, line 16A motley procession with many a fleck of foam and many fragments,
  2138. p. 209, line 17Following the stately and rapid ship, in the wake following.
  2139. p. 209, line 19Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
  2140. p. 209, line 22Way for the Federal foot and dragoons, (and the apparitions copiously tumbling.)
  2141. p. 209, line 23I love to look on the Stars and Stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
  2142. p. 210, line 4Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear bandaged and bloodless.
  2143. p. 210, line 7Phantoms! phantoms countless by flank and rear!
  2144. p. 210, line 11Does the ague convulse your limbs? do you mistake your crutches for firelocks and level them?
  2145. p. 210, line 14For shame old maniacs—bring down those toss'd arms, and let your white hair be,
  2146. p. 210, line 17Worse and worse—can't you stand it? are you retreating?
  2147. p. 211, line 4Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make another procession, guard it with foot and dragoons.
  2148. p. 211, line 8Clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.
  2149. p. 211, line 9You have got your revenge, old buster—the crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
  2150. p. 211, line 11You are mighty cute—and here is one of your bargains.
  2151. p. 211, line 12SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
  2152. p. 211, line 14Its feet upon the ashes and the rags, its hands tight to the throats of kings.
  2153. p. 211, line 15O hope and faith!
  2154. p. 211, line 18Turn back unto this day and make yourselves afresh.
  2155. p. 211, line 19And you, paid to defile the People—you liars, mark!
  2156. p. 211, line 22For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh'd at in the breaking,
  2157. p. 212, line 3But the sweetness of mercy brew'd bitter destruction, and the frighten'd monarchs come back,
  2158. p. 212, line 5Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and sycophant.
  2159. p. 212, line 7Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds,
  2160. p. 212, line 8Whose face and eyes none may see,
  2161. p. 212, line 13And all these things bear fruits, and they are good.
  2162. p. 212, line 16Cold and motionless as they seem live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
  2163. p. 212, line 19They were purified by death, they were taught and exalted.
  2164. p. 212, line 21Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
  2165. p. 213, line 2Outside fair costume, within ashes and filth,
  2166. p. 213, line 6Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,
  2167. p. 213, line 8Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams,
  2168. p. 213, line 9Words babble, hearing and touch callous,
  2169. p. 213, line 12Such a result so soon—and from such a beginning!
  2170. p. 213, line 13LOVER divine and perfect Comrade,
  2171. p. 213, line 17Fair, able, beautiful, content, and loving,
  2172. p. 213, line 18Complete in body and dilate in spirit,
  2173. p. 213, line 21Opener and usher to the heavenly mansion,
  2174. p. 213, line 29Or Time and Space,
  2175. p. 213, line 30Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
  2176. p. 214, line 2The ones known, and the ones unknown, the ones on the stars,
  2177. p. 214, line 5Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,
  2178. p. 214, line 6Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my arm and half enclose with my hand,
  2179. p. 214, line 7That containing the start of each and all, the virtue, the germs of all.
  2180. p. 214, line 8OF ownership—as if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
  2181. p. 214, line 10(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
  2182. p. 214, line 11Of what was once lacking on earth, and in due time has become supplied—and of what will yet be supplied,
  2183. p. 214, line 12Because all I see and know I believe to have its main purport in what will yet be supplied.
  2184. p. 214, line 15When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
  2185. p. 214, line 17How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
  2186. p. 214, line 18Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
  2187. p. 214, line 19In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
  2188. p. 214, line 21ONLY themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
  2189. p. 215, line 3Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
  2190. p. 215, line 5Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
  2191. p. 215, line 6Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
  2192. p. 215, line 8That you are here—that life exists and identity,
  2193. p. 215, line 9That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
  2194. p. 215, line 10ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
  2195. p. 215, line 13And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.
  2196. p. 215, line 14I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame,
  2197. p. 215, line 18I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid, I see these sights on the earth,
  2198. p. 215, line 19I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny, I see martyrs and prisoners,
  2199. p. 216, line 1I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
  2200. p. 216, line 2All these—all the meanness and agony without end I sitting look out upon,
  2201. p. 216, line 3See, hear, and am silent.
  2202. p. 216, line 5A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendezvous with my poems,
  2203. p. 216, line 6A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to advertise for them?
  2204. p. 216, line 7For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
  2205. p. 216, line 20And the vast all that is call'd Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
  2206. p. 216, line 22A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
  2207. p. 216, line 23And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
  2208. p. 217, line 1SILENT and amazed even when a little boy,
  2209. p. 217, line 5He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs,
  2210. p. 217, line 7With lightly closed fists and arms partially rais'd.
  2211. p. 217, line 8WOMEN sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
  2212. p. 217, line 11The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.
  2213. p. 217, line 13As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who do not believe in men.
  2214. p. 217, line 16Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
  2215. p. 217, line 18OF Justice—as if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors,
  2216. p. 218, line 2Through Nature, Time, and Space,
  2217. p. 218, line 10OF Equality—as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
  2218. p. 218, line 11I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
  2219. p. 218, line 12LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home?
  2220. p. 218, line 14A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
  2221. p. 218, line 15Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay children and youths, with offerings.
  2222. p. 218, line 16WHY reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing?
  2223. p. 219, line 1Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol?
  2224. p. 219, line 5(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake,
  2225. p. 219, line 6South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
  2226. p. 219, line 8Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum pride and joy in my city,
  2227. p. 219, line 14How your soft opera-music changed, and the drum and fife were heard in their stead,
  2228. p. 219, line 18Forty years as a pageant, till unawares the lady of this teeming and turbulent city,
  2229. p. 220, line 1From the houses then and the workshops, and through all the doorways,
  2230. p. 220, line 2Leapt they tumultuous, and lo! Manhattan arming.
  2231. p. 220, line 4The young men falling in and arming,
  2232. p. 220, line 6The lawyer leaving his office and arming, the judge leaving the court,
  2233. p. 220, line 9Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm,
  2234. p. 220, line 12The white tents cluster in camps, the arm'd sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset,
  2235. p. 220, line 13Arm'd regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wharves,
  2236. p. 220, line 15How I love them! how I could hug them, with their brown faces and their clothes and knapsacks cover'd with dust!)
  2237. p. 220, line 17The flags flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores,
  2238. p. 220, line 26The hospital service, the lint, bandages and medicines,
  2239. p. 221, line 3Mannahatta a-march—and it's O to sing it well!
  2240. p. 221, line 5And the sturdy artillery,
  2241. p. 221, line 8Put in something now besides powder and wadding.)
  2242. p. 221, line 9And you lady of ships, you Mannahatta,
  2243. p. 221, line 11Often in peace and wealth you were pensive or covertly frown'd amid all your children,
  2244. p. 221, line 17With well-gristled body and sunburnt face and hands, with a knife in the belt at your side,
  2245. p. 221, line 21Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana,
  2246. p. 221, line 22Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the Alleghanies,
  2247. p. 221, line 25Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year,
  2248. p. 222, line 1Heard your determin'd voice launch'd forth again and again,
  2249. p. 222, line 6Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation,
  2250. p. 222, line 10So fierce you whirr and pound you drums—so shrill you bugles blow.
  2251. p. 222, line 26Around and around to soar to sing the idea of all,
  2252. p. 223, line 3Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs, to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas to sing theirs,
  2253. p. 223, line 4To Tennessee and Kentucky, to the Carolinas and Georgia to sing theirs,
  2254. p. 223, line 5To Texas and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;
  2255. p. 223, line 7The idea of all, of the Western world one and inseparable,
  2256. p. 223, line 8And then the song of each member of these States.
  2257. p. 223, line 11By the wind's voice and that of the drum,
  2258. p. 223, line 12By the banner's voice and child's voice and sea's voice and father's voice,
  2259. p. 223, line 13Low on the ground and high in the air,
  2260. p. 223, line 14On the ground where father and child stand,
  2261. p. 223, line 18Words no more, for hearken and see,
  2262. p. 223, line 19My song is there in the open air, and I must sing,
  2263. p. 223, line 20With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
  2264. p. 223, line 21I'll weave the chord and twine in,
  2265. p. 223, line 22Man's desire and babe's desire, I'll twine them in, I'll put in life,
  2266. p. 223, line 23I'll put the bayonet's flashing point, I'll let bullets and slugs whizz,
  2267. p. 223, line 24(As one carrying a symbol and menace far into the future,
  2268. p. 223, line 25Crying with trumpet voice, Arouse and beware! Beware and arouse!)
  2269. p. 223, line 27Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
  2270. p. 223, line 28With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
  2271. p. 224, line 2To fly in the clouds and winds with me, and play with the measureless light.
  2272. p. 224, line 4And what does it say to me all the while?
  2273. p. 224, line 6And nothing at all to you it says—but look you my babe,
  2274. p. 224, line 7Look at these dazzling things in the houses, and see you the money-shops opening,
  2275. p. 224, line 8And see you the vehicles preparing to crawl along the streets with goods;
  2276. p. 224, line 9These, ah these, how valued and toil'd for these!
  2277. p. 224, line 11Fresh and rosy red the sun is mounting high,
  2278. p. 224, line 19Not the spirit that ever lashes its own body to terror and death,
  2279. p. 224, line 20But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,
  2280. p. 224, line 21Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,
  2281. p. 224, line 22Which the birds know in the woods mornings and evenings,
  2282. p. 224, line 23And the shore-sands know and the hissing wave, and that banner and pennant,
  2283. p. 224, line 24Aloft there flapping and flapping.
  2284. p. 224, line 28O it stretches—it spreads and runs so fast—O my father,
  2285. p. 225, line 3Behold with the rest again I say, behold not banners and pennants aloft,
  2286. p. 225, line 4But the well-prepared pavements behold, and mark the solid-wall'd houses.
  2287. p. 225, line 7Point this day, leaving all the rest, to us over all—and yet we know not why,
  2288. p. 225, line 10I hear and see not strips of cloth alone,
  2289. p. 225, line 13I hear the drums beat and the trumpets blowing,
  2290. p. 225, line 15I use the wings of the land-bird and use the wings of the sea-bird, and look down as from a height,
  2291. p. 225, line 22I pass to the lumber forests of the North, and again to the Southern plantation, and again to California;
  2292. p. 225, line 24See the Identity formed out of thirty-eight spacious and haughty States, (and many more to come,)
  2293. p. 225, line 25See forts on the shores of harbors, see ships sailing in and out;
  2294. p. 225, line 26Then over all, (aye! aye!) my little and lengthen'd pennant shaped like a sword,
  2295. p. 226, line 1Runs swiftly up indicating war and defiance—and now the halyards have rais'd it,
  2296. p. 226, line 2Side of my banner broad and blue, side of my starry banner,
  2297. p. 226, line 3Discarding peace over all the sea and land.
  2298. p. 226, line 5No longer let our children deem us riches and peace alone,
  2299. p. 226, line 6We may be terror and carnage, and are so now,
  2300. p. 226, line 7Not now are we any one of these spacious and haughty States, (nor any five, nor ten,)
  2301. p. 226, line 9But these and all, and the brown and spreading land, and the mines below, are ours,
  2302. p. 226, line 10And the shores of the sea are ours, and the rivers great and small,
  2303. p. 226, line 11And the fields they moisten, and the crops and the fruits are ours,
  2304. p. 226, line 12Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all,
  2305. p. 226, line 14The forty millions of people,—O bard! in life and death supreme,
  2306. p. 226, line 21That pennant I would be and must be.
  2307. p. 226, line 24Little you know what it is this day, and after this day, forever,
  2308. p. 226, line 25It is to gain nothing, but risk and defy every thing,
  2309. p. 226, line 26Forward to stand in front of wars—and O, such wars!—what have you to do with them?
  2310. p. 226, line 28Demons and death then I sing,
  2311. p. 227, line 1And a pleasure new and ecstatic, and the prattled yearning of children,
  2312. p. 227, line 2Blent with the sounds of the peaceful land and the liquid wash of the sea,
  2313. p. 227, line 3And the black ships fighting on the sea envelop'd in smoke,
  2314. p. 227, line 4And the icy cool of the far, far north, with rustling cedars and pines,
  2315. p. 227, line 5And the whirr of drums and the sound of soldiers marching, and the hot sun shining south,
  2316. p. 227, line 6And the beach-waves combing over the beach on my Eastern shore, and my Western shore the same,
  2317. p. 227, line 7And all between those shores, and my ever running Mississippi with bends and chutes,
  2318. p. 227, line 8And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri,
  2319. p. 227, line 10Pour in! whelm that which asks, which sings, with all and the yield of all,
  2320. p. 227, line 11Fusing and holding, claiming, devouring the whole,
  2321. p. 227, line 16Banner so broad advancing out of the night, I sing you haughty and resolute,
  2322. p. 227, line 17I burst through where I waited long, too long, deafen'd and blinded,
  2323. p. 227, line 18My hearing and tongue are come to me, (a little child taught me,)
  2324. p. 227, line 19I hear from above O pennant of war your ironical call and demand,
  2325. p. 227, line 23May they stand fast, then? not an hour except you above them and all stand fast;)
  2326. p. 228, line 1Not the superb ships with sail-power or steam-power, fetching and carrying cargoes,
  2327. p. 228, line 5(Passionately seen and yearn'd for by one poor little child,
  2328. p. 228, line 10Valueless, object of eyes, over all and demanding all—(absolute owner of all)—O banner and pennant!
  2329. p. 228, line 17I travel'd the prairies over and slept on their breast, I cross'd the Nevadas, I cross'd the plateaus,
  2330. p. 229, line 1Saw from below what arose and mounted, (O superb! O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
  2331. p. 229, line 3Noted the slender and jagged threads of lightning as sudden and fast amid the din they chased each other across the sky;
  2332. p. 229, line 4These, and such as these, I, elate, saw—saw with wonder, yet pensive and masterful,
  2333. p. 229, line 8Now we advance our latent and ampler hunger to fill,
  2334. p. 229, line 9Now we go forth to receive what the earth and the sea never gave us,
  2335. p. 229, line 12Torrents of men, (sources and rills of the Northwest are you indeed inexhaustible?)
  2336. p. 229, line 13What, to pavements and homesteads here, what were those storms of the mountains and sea?
  2337. p. 229, line 16Lo! from deeps more unfathomable, something more deadly and savage,
  2338. p. 229, line 19How it climbs with daring feet and hands—how it dashes!
  2339. p. 229, line 22(Yet a mournful wail and low sob I fancied I heard through the dark,
  2340. p. 229, line 25And do you rise higher than ever yet O days, O cities!
  2341. p. 230, line 4The cities I loved so well I abandon'd and left, I sped to the certainties suitable to me,
  2342. p. 230, line 5Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies and Nature's dauntlessness,
  2343. p. 230, line 7I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long;
  2344. p. 230, line 10I have lived to behold man burst forth and warlike America rise,
  2345. p. 230, line 15(Memories of old in abeyance, love and faith in abeyance,)
  2346. p. 230, line 18I saw, out of the land of prairies, land of Ohio's waters and of Indiana,
  2347. p. 230, line 22As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my life?
  2348. p. 230, line 24For you provided me Washington—and now these also.
  2349. p. 230, line 27O the beautiful sharp-bow'd steam-ships and sail-ships!)
  2350. p. 231, line 3City of the sea! city of hurried and glittering tides!
  2351. p. 231, line 4City whose gleeful tides continually rush or recede, whirling in and out with eddies and foam!
  2352. p. 231, line 5City of wharves and stores—city of tall façades of marble and iron!
  2353. p. 231, line 6Proud and passionate city—mettlesome, mad, extravagant city!
  2354. p. 231, line 12I chant and celebrate all that is yours—yet peace no more,
  2355. p. 231, line 17Up the path you have follow'd me well, spite of your hundred and extra years,
  2356. p. 231, line 19Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.
  2357. p. 231, line 21On the plain below recruits are drilling and exercising,
  2358. p. 231, line 26Why do you tremble and clutch my hand so convulsively?
  2359. p. 231, line 28Around them at hand the well-drest friends and the women,
  2360. p. 231, line 29While splendid and warm the afternoon sun shines down,
  2361. p. 231, line 30Green the midsummer verdure and fresh blows the dallying breeze,
  2362. p. 231, line 31O'er proud and peaceful cities and arm of the sea between.
  2363. p. 232, line 1But drill and parade are over, they march back to quarters,
  2364. p. 232, line 3As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man,
  2365. p. 232, line 5You to speak in your turn, and I to listen and tell.
  2366. p. 232, line 8And below there where the boys were drilling, and up the slopes they ran,
  2367. p. 232, line 9And where tents are pitch'd, and wherever you see south and south-east and south-west,
  2368. p. 232, line 10Over hills, across lowlands, and in the skirts of woods,
  2369. p. 232, line 11And along the shores, in mire (now fill'd over) came again and suddenly raged,
  2370. p. 232, line 17The years recede, pavements and stately houses disappear,
  2371. p. 232, line 20I mark the vista of waters, I mark the uplands and slopes;
  2372. p. 232, line 28And the transports swarming with soldiers.
  2373. p. 232, line 29A few days more and they landed, and then the battle.
  2374. p. 233, line 3Of that brigade I tell, and how steadily it march'd,
  2375. p. 233, line 4And how long and well it stood confronting death.
  2376. p. 233, line 7Rais'd in Virginia and Maryland, and most of them known personally to the General.
  2377. p. 233, line 11That brigade of the youngest was cut off and at the enemy's mercy.
  2378. p. 233, line 15But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!
  2379. p. 233, line 24Till we turn'd menacing here, and then he left us.
  2380. p. 234, line 1That and here my General's first battle,
  2381. p. 234, line 5Wearied that night we lay foil'd and sullen,
  2382. p. 234, line 8So dull and damp and another day,
  2383. p. 234, line 13My General waited till the soldiers and wounded were all pass'd over,
  2384. p. 234, line 14And then, (it was just ere sunrise,) these eyes rested on him for the last time.
  2385. p. 234, line 18As he stood in his boat and look'd toward the coming sun,
  2386. p. 234, line 21The two, the past and present, have interchanged,
  2387. p. 234, line 23And is this the ground Washington trod?
  2388. p. 234, line 24And these waters I listlessly daily cross, are these the waters he cross'd,
  2389. p. 234, line 26I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward,
  2390. p. 234, line 29It is the 27th of August and the British have landed,
  2391. p. 235, line 1The battle begins and goes against us, behold through the smoke Washington's face,
  2392. p. 235, line 2The brigade of Virginia and Maryland have march'd forth to intercept the enemy,
  2393. p. 235, line 6In death, defeat, and sisters', mothers' tears.
  2394. p. 235, line 7Ah, hills and slopes of Brooklyn! I perceive you are more valuable than your owners supposed;
  2395. p. 235, line 15Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
  2396. p. 235, line 18Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer,
  2397. p. 235, line 21The numerous camp-fires scatter'd near and far, some away up on the mountain,
  2398. p. 235, line 22The shadowy forms of men and horses, looming, large-sized, flickering,
  2399. p. 235, line 23And over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
  2400. p. 236, line 2With now the sound of a single shot snapping like a whip, and now an irregular volley,
  2401. p. 236, line 3The swarming ranks press on and on, the dense brigades press on,
  2402. p. 236, line 5In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,
  2403. p. 236, line 9A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow—but first I note,
  2404. p. 236, line 10The tents of the sleeping army, the fields' and woods' dim outline,
  2405. p. 236, line 13The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily watching me,)
  2406. p. 236, line 14While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous thoughts,
  2407. p. 236, line 15Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that are far away;
  2408. p. 236, line 16A solemn and slow procession there as I sit on the ground,
  2409. p. 236, line 19And come to the front door mother, here's a letter from thy dear son.
  2410. p. 236, line 21Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
  2411. p. 236, line 22Cool and sweeten Ohio's villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind,
  2412. p. 236, line 23Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis'd vines,
  2413. p. 237, line 1Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
  2414. p. 237, line 2Below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful, and the farm prospers well.
  2415. p. 237, line 5And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.
  2416. p. 237, line 15Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms,
  2417. p. 237, line 16Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,
  2418. p. 237, line 19The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,)
  2419. p. 237, line 21Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
  2420. p. 237, line 28O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw,
  2421. p. 238, line 2When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,
  2422. p. 238, line 9Long there and then in vigil I stood, dimly around me the battle-field spreading,
  2423. p. 238, line 10Vigil wondrous and vigil sweet there in the fragrant silent night,
  2424. p. 238, line 13Passing sweet hours, immortal and mystic hours with you dearest comrade—not a tear, not a word,
  2425. p. 238, line 14Vigil of silence, love and death, vigil for you my son and my soldier,
  2426. p. 238, line 17I faithfully loved you and cared for you living, I think we shall surely meet again,)
  2427. p. 238, line 20Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head and carefully under feet,
  2428. p. 238, line 21And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in his grave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,
  2429. p. 238, line 22Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-field dim,
  2430. p. 238, line 25I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in his blanket,
  2431. p. 238, line 26And buried him where he fell.
  2432. p. 239, line 1A MARCH in the ranks hard-prest, and the road unknown,
  2433. p. 239, line 3Our army foil'd with loss severe, and the sullen remnant retreating,
  2434. p. 239, line 5We come to an open space in the woods, and halt by the dim-lighted building,
  2435. p. 239, line 7Entering but for a minute I see a sight beyond all the pictures and poems ever made,
  2436. p. 239, line 8Shadows of deepest, deepest black, just lit by moving candles and lamps,
  2437. p. 239, line 9And by one great pitchy torch stationary with wild red flame and clouds of smoke,
  2438. p. 239, line 23Then the eyes close, calmly close, and I speed forth to the darkness,
  2439. p. 240, line 1A SIGHT in camp in the daybreak gray and dim,
  2440. p. 240, line 6Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all.
  2441. p. 240, line 7Curious I halt and silent stand,
  2442. p. 240, line 9Who are you elderly man so gaunt and grim, with well-gray'd hair, and flesh all sunken about the eyes?
  2443. p. 240, line 11Then to the second I step—and who are you my child and darling?
  2444. p. 240, line 15Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.
  2445. p. 240, line 19Mortally wounded he and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I understand,)
  2446. p. 240, line 21On a tablet scrawl'd and nail'd on the tree by the grave,
  2447. p. 240, line 22Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
  2448. p. 240, line 24Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life,
  2449. p. 241, line 1Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street,
  2450. p. 241, line 3Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
  2451. p. 241, line 4NOT the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship into port, though beaten back and many times baffled;
  2452. p. 241, line 5Not the pathfinder penetrating inland weary and long,
  2453. p. 241, line 9YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me!
  2454. p. 241, line 11A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me,
  2455. p. 241, line 14And sullen hymns of defeat?
  2456. p. 241, line 17Come tell us old man, as from young men and maidens that love me,
  2457. p. 241, line 18(Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war,
  2458. p. 241, line 19But soon my fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself,
  2459. p. 241, line 20To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or silently watch the dead;)
  2460. p. 242, line 4What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
  2461. p. 242, line 6O maidens and young men I love and that love me,
  2462. p. 242, line 7What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden your talking recalls,
  2463. p. 242, line 8Soldier alert I arrive after a long march cover'd with sweat and dust,
  2464. p. 242, line 11Pass and are gone they fade—I dwell not on soldiers' perils or soldiers' joys,
  2465. p. 242, line 14While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on,
  2466. p. 242, line 15So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand,
  2467. p. 242, line 17Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
  2468. p. 242, line 18Bearing the bandages, water and sponge,
  2469. p. 242, line 19Straight and swift to my wounded I go,
  2470. p. 242, line 23To the long rows of cots up and down each side I return,
  2471. p. 242, line 24To each and all one after another I draw near, not one do I miss,
  2472. p. 242, line 26Soon to be fill'd with clotted rags and blood, emptied, and fill'd again.
  2473. p. 242, line 28With hinged knees and steady hand to dress wounds,
  2474. p. 243, line 5The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through I examine,
  2475. p. 243, line 10I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood,
  2476. p. 243, line 11Back on his pillow the soldier bends with curv'd neck and side-falling head,
  2477. p. 243, line 13And has not yet look'd on it.
  2478. p. 243, line 15But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
  2479. p. 243, line 16And the yellow-blue countenance see.
  2480. p. 243, line 18Cleanse the one with a gnawing and putrid gangrene, so sickening, so offensive,
  2481. p. 243, line 19While the attendant stands behind aside me holding the tray and pail.
  2482. p. 243, line 22These and more I dress with impassive hand, (yet deep in my breast a fire, a burning flame.)
  2483. p. 243, line 25The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
  2484. p. 244, line 1Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad,
  2485. p. 244, line 2(Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck have cross'd and rested,
  2486. p. 244, line 5Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
  2487. p. 244, line 6But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
  2488. p. 244, line 7And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
  2489. p. 244, line 10Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
  2490. p. 244, line 13Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content,
  2491. p. 244, line 14Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
  2492. p. 244, line 20These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,)
  2493. p. 245, line 1Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets,
  2494. p. 245, line 7Keep your woods O Nature, and the quiet places by the woods,
  2495. p. 245, line 8Keep your fields of clover and timothy, and your corn-fields and orchards,
  2496. p. 245, line 10Give me faces and streets—give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs!
  2497. p. 245, line 11Give me interminable eyes—give me women—give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!
  2498. p. 245, line 14Give me Broadway, with the soldiers marching—give me the sound of the trumpets and drums!
  2499. p. 245, line 15(The soldiers in companies or regiments—some starting away, flush'd and reckless,
  2500. p. 245, line 17Give me the shores and wharves heavy-fringed with black ships!
  2501. p. 245, line 18O such for me! O an intense life, full to repletion and varied!
  2502. p. 245, line 24The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even the sight of the wounded,)
  2503. p. 245, line 26Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
  2504. p. 246, line 3On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
  2505. p. 246, line 8Immense and silent moon.
  2506. p. 246, line 10And I hear the sound of coming full-key'd bugles,
  2507. p. 246, line 12As with voices and with tears.
  2508. p. 246, line 14And the small drums steady whirring,
  2509. p. 246, line 15And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
  2510. p. 246, line 16Strikes me through and through.
  2511. p. 246, line 19Two veterans son and father dropt together,
  2512. p. 246, line 20And the double grave awaits them.)
  2513. p. 246, line 22And the drums strike more convulsive,
  2514. p. 246, line 23And the daylight o'er the pavement quite has faded,
  2515. p. 246, line 24And the strong dead-march enwraps me.
  2516. p. 246, line 34And the bugles and the drums give you music,
  2517. p. 246, line 35And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
  2518. p. 247, line 10From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune,
  2519. p. 247, line 13Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
  2520. p. 247, line 14It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection,
  2521. p. 247, line 15The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,
  2522. p. 247, line 18These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron,
  2523. p. 247, line 27I saw a hundred and more step forth from the ranks, but two or three were selected,
  2524. p. 248, line 3WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,
  2525. p. 248, line 4And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes,
  2526. p. 248, line 5And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the breath of my infant,
  2527. p. 248, line 7The engagement opens there and then in fantasy unreal,
  2528. p. 248, line 11The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,)
  2529. p. 248, line 13The crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces,
  2530. p. 248, line 14The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time,
  2531. p. 248, line 15After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect;
  2532. p. 248, line 20Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers,
  2533. p. 248, line 22And ever the sound of the cannon far or near, (rousing even in dreams a devilish exultation and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,)
  2534. p. 248, line 23And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thither,
  2535. p. 249, line 1(The falling, dying, I heed not, the wounded dripping and red I heed not, some to the rear are hobbling,)
  2536. p. 249, line 4And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
  2537. p. 249, line 6With your woolly-white and turban'd head, and bare bony feet?
  2538. p. 249, line 8('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sands and pines,
  2539. p. 249, line 15Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,
  2540. p. 249, line 16And courtesies to the regiments, the guidons moving by.
  2541. p. 249, line 18Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
  2542. p. 249, line 19Are the things so strange and marvelous you see or have seen?
  2543. p. 249, line 23In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning inures not to me,
  2544. p. 249, line 25I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier,
  2545. p. 249, line 26And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp,
  2546. p. 250, line 5Race of passion and the storm.
  2547. p. 250, line 8Coals thirty-eight, baleful and burning,
  2548. p. 250, line 10Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
  2549. p. 250, line 13Praises and presents came and nourishing food, till at last among the recruits,
  2550. p. 250, line 16LOOK down fair moon and bathe this scene,
  2551. p. 250, line 21Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost,
  2552. p. 250, line 22That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world;
  2553. p. 251, line 2I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near,
  2554. p. 251, line 3Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
  2555. p. 251, line 5As the ranks returning worn and sweaty, as the men file by where I stand,
  2556. p. 251, line 8How solemn the thought of my whispering soul to each in the ranks, and to you,
  2557. p. 251, line 13Waiting secure and content, which the bullet could never kill,
  2558. p. 251, line 16The confession I made I resume, what I said to you and the open air I resume,
  2559. p. 251, line 17I know I am restless and make others so,
  2560. p. 251, line 19For I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them,
  2561. p. 251, line 21I heed not and have never heeded either experience, cautions, majorities, nor ridicule,
  2562. p. 251, line 22And the threat of what is call'd hell is little or nothing to me,
  2563. p. 251, line 23And the lure of what is call'd heaven is little or nothing to me;
  2564. p. 251, line 24Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination,
  2565. p. 251, line 25Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell'd and defeated.
  2566. p. 252, line 4How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!)
  2567. p. 252, line 6Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson!
  2568. p. 252, line 10Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
  2569. p. 252, line 15With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officer's funeral;)
  2570. p. 252, line 17And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes,
  2571. p. 252, line 18For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
  2572. p. 252, line 24Flauntest now unharm'd in immortal soundness and bloom—lo, in these hours supreme,
  2573. p. 252, line 26But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds,
  2574. p. 252, line 27And psalms of the dead.
  2575. p. 253, line 3Spirit of gloomiest fears and doubts, (yet onward ever unfaltering pressing,)
  2576. p. 253, line 4Spirit of many a solemn day and many a savage scene—electric spirit,
  2577. p. 253, line 6Rousing the land with breath of flame, while you beat and beat the drum,
  2578. p. 253, line 7Now as the sound of the drum, hollow and harsh to the last, reverberates round me,
  2579. p. 253, line 11As those slanted bayonets, whole forests of them appearing in the distance, approach and pass on, returning homeward,
  2580. p. 253, line 12Moving with steady motion, swaying to and fro to the right and left,
  2581. p. 253, line 13Evenly lightly rising and falling while the steps keep time;
  2582. p. 253, line 17Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone,
  2583. p. 253, line 24Spell of all brave and manly hearts, the trains of time through you and like of you all fill'd,
  2584. p. 253, line 25With war and war's expression.
  2585. p. 254, line 1Myself and this contentious soul of mine,
  2586. p. 254, line 4Through many a sharp defeat and many a crisis, often baffled,
  2587. p. 254, line 8From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no more, resolute, sweeping the world,
  2588. p. 254, line 12Turn to the world, the triumphs reserv'd and to come—give up that backward world,
  2589. p. 254, line 15(Lo, how the wars of the past have duly inured to you, and the wars of the present also inure;)
  2590. p. 254, line 16Then turn, and be not alarm'd O Libertad—turn your undying face,
  2591. p. 254, line 21In the freshness the forenoon air, in the far-stretching circuits and vistas again to peace restored,
  2592. p. 254, line 22To the fiery fields emanative and the endless vistas beyond, to the South and the North,
  2593. p. 254, line 24To the Alleghanian hills and the tireless Mississippi,
  2594. p. 254, line 25To the rocks I calling sing, and all the trees in the woods,
  2595. p. 255, line 1To the far-off sea and the unseen winds, and the sane impalpable air;
  2596. p. 255, line 2And responding they answer all, (but not in words,)
  2597. p. 255, line 3The average earth, the witness of war and peace, acknowledges mutely,
  2598. p. 255, line 5The Northern ice and rain that began me nourish me to the end,
  2599. p. 255, line 8And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
  2600. p. 255, line 9I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
  2601. p. 255, line 11Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
  2602. p. 255, line 12And thought of him I love.
  2603. p. 256, line 1With every leaf a miracle—and from this bush in the dooryard,
  2604. p. 256, line 2With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
  2605. p. 256, line 5A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song.
  2606. p. 256, line 13Amid lanes and through old woods, where lately the violets peep'd from the ground, spotting the gray debris,
  2607. p. 256, line 16Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards,
  2608. p. 256, line 18Night and day journeys a coffin.
  2609. p. 256, line 19Coffin that passes through lanes and streets,
  2610. p. 256, line 20Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land,
  2611. p. 256, line 23With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night,
  2612. p. 256, line 24With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads,
  2613. p. 256, line 25With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,
  2614. p. 256, line 26With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong and solemn,
  2615. p. 256, line 28The dim-lit churches and the shuddering organs—where amid these you journey,
  2616. p. 257, line 5Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring,
  2617. p. 257, line 6For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death.
  2618. p. 257, line 8O death, I cover you over with roses and early lilies,
  2619. p. 257, line 9But mostly and now the lilac that blooms the first,
  2620. p. 257, line 12For you and the coffins all of you O death.)
  2621. p. 257, line 19As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were of woe,
  2622. p. 257, line 21As I watch'd where you pass'd and was lost in the netherward black of the night,
  2623. p. 257, line 23Concluded, dropt in the night, and was gone.
  2624. p. 257, line 25O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,
  2625. p. 257, line 28The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.
  2626. p. 258, line 2And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
  2627. p. 258, line 3And what shall my perfume be for the grave of him I love?
  2628. p. 258, line 4Sea-winds blown from east and west,
  2629. p. 258, line 5Blown from the Eastern sea and blown from the Western sea, till there on the prairies meeting,
  2630. p. 258, line 6These and with these and the breath of my chant,
  2631. p. 258, line 9And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,
  2632. p. 258, line 11Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,
  2633. p. 258, line 12With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,
  2634. p. 258, line 14With the fresh sweet herbage under foot, and the pale green leaves of the trees prolific,
  2635. p. 258, line 15In the distance the flowing glaze, the breast of the river, with a wind-dapple here and there,
  2636. p. 258, line 16With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows,
  2637. p. 258, line 17And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,
  2638. p. 258, line 18And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.
  2639. p. 258, line 19Lo, body and soul—this land,
  2640. p. 258, line 20My own Manhattan with spires, and the sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships,
  2641. p. 258, line 21The varied and ample land, the South and the North in the light, Ohio's shores and flashing Missouri,
  2642. p. 258, line 22And ever the far-spreading prairies cover'd with grass and corn.
  2643. p. 258, line 23Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty,
  2644. p. 258, line 24The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes,
  2645. p. 259, line 2The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars,
  2646. p. 259, line 3Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.
  2647. p. 259, line 6Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines.
  2648. p. 259, line 9O liquid and free and tender!
  2649. p. 259, line 10O wild and loose to my soul—O wondrous singer!
  2650. p. 259, line 13Now while I sat in the day and look'd forth,
  2651. p. 259, line 14In the close of the day with its light and the fields of spring, and the farmers preparing their crops,
  2652. p. 259, line 15In the large unconscious scenery of my land with its lakes and forests,
  2653. p. 259, line 16In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)
  2654. p. 259, line 17Under the arching heavens of the afternoon swift passing, and the voices of children and women,
  2655. p. 259, line 18The many-moving sea-tides, and I saw the ships how they sail'd,
  2656. p. 259, line 19And the summer approaching with richness, and the fields all busy with labor,
  2657. p. 259, line 20And the infinite separate houses, how they all went on, each with its meals and minutia of daily usages,
  2658. p. 259, line 21And the streets how their throbbings throbb'd, and the cities pent—lo, then and there,
  2659. p. 259, line 22Falling upon them all and among them all, enveloping me with the rest,
  2660. p. 259, line 24And I knew death, its thought, and the sacred knowledge of death.
  2661. p. 259, line 26And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me,
  2662. p. 260, line 1And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions,
  2663. p. 260, line 4To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
  2664. p. 260, line 5And the singer so shy to the rest receiv'd me,
  2665. p. 260, line 7And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love.
  2666. p. 260, line 9From the fragrant cedars and the ghostly pines so still,
  2667. p. 260, line 11And the charm of the carol rapt me,
  2668. p. 260, line 13And the voice of my spirit tallied the song of the bird.
  2669. p. 260, line 14Come lovely and soothing death,
  2670. p. 260, line 19For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious,
  2671. p. 260, line 20And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise!
  2672. p. 260, line 31Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee,
  2673. p. 260, line 32And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting,
  2674. p. 260, line 33And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
  2675. p. 261, line 2The ocean shore and the husky whispering wave whose voice I know,
  2676. p. 261, line 3And the soul turning to thee O vast and well-veil'd death,
  2677. p. 261, line 4And the body gratefully nestling close to thee.
  2678. p. 261, line 6Over the rising and sinking waves, over the myriad fields and the prairies wide,
  2679. p. 261, line 7Over the dense-pack'd cities all and the teeming wharves and ways,
  2680. p. 261, line 10Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird,
  2681. p. 261, line 12Loud in the pines and cedars dim,
  2682. p. 261, line 13Clear in the freshness moist and the swamp-perfume,
  2683. p. 261, line 14And I with my comrades there in the night.
  2684. p. 261, line 17And I saw askant the armies,
  2685. p. 261, line 19Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc'd with missiles I saw them,
  2686. p. 261, line 20And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody,
  2687. p. 261, line 21And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,)
  2688. p. 261, line 22And the staffs all splinter'd and broken.
  2689. p. 261, line 24And the white skeletons of young men, I saw them,
  2690. p. 261, line 25I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war,
  2691. p. 261, line 28The living remain'd and suffer'd, the mother suffer'd,
  2692. p. 261, line 29And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  2693. p. 261, line 30And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.
  2694. p. 262, line 1Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul,
  2695. p. 262, line 3As low and wailing, yet clear the notes, rising and falling, flooding the night,
  2696. p. 262, line 4Sadly sinking and fainting, as warning and warning, and yet again bursting with joy,
  2697. p. 262, line 5Covering the earth and filling the spread of the heaven,
  2698. p. 262, line 12Yet each to keep and all, retrievements out of the night,
  2699. p. 262, line 14And the tallying chant, the echo arous'd in my soul,
  2700. p. 262, line 15With the lustrous and drooping star with the countenance full of woe,
  2701. p. 262, line 17Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep, for the dead I loved so well,
  2702. p. 262, line 18For the sweetest, wisest soul of all my days and lands—and this for his dear sake,
  2703. p. 262, line 19Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul,
  2704. p. 262, line 20There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
  2705. p. 262, line 24While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
  2706. p. 262, line 28Fallen cold and dead.
  2707. p. 262, line 29O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
  2708. p. 263, line 1For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
  2709. p. 263, line 6You've fallen cold and dead.
  2710. p. 263, line 7My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
  2711. p. 263, line 9The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
  2712. p. 263, line 11Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
  2713. p. 263, line 14Fallen cold and dead.
  2714. p. 263, line 16And soldiers let us drape our war-worn weapons,
  2715. p. 263, line 17And each with musing soul retire to celebrate,
  2716. p. 263, line 28Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
  2717. p. 264, line 2As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd, and the dead that return no more,
  2718. p. 264, line 5And strike up the marches of Libertad, marches more powerful yet,
  2719. p. 264, line 6And sing me before you go the song of the throes of Democracy.
  2720. p. 264, line 8And death and infidelity at every step.)
  2721. p. 264, line 12A breed whose proof is in time and deeds,
  2722. p. 264, line 15We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
  2723. p. 264, line 17We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves,
  2724. p. 265, line 6Piety and conformity to them that like,
  2725. p. 265, line 9Crying, Leap from your seats and contend for your lives!
  2726. p. 265, line 13(With pangs and cries as thine own O bearer of many children,
  2727. p. 265, line 20Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.
  2728. p. 265, line 22America brings builders, and brings its own styles.
  2729. p. 265, line 23The immortal poets of Asia and Europe have done their work and pass'd to other spheres,
  2730. p. 266, line 5That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
  2731. p. 266, line 6And that he shall be fittest for his days.
  2732. p. 266, line 8One land must be the promise and reliance of the future.
  2733. p. 266, line 11Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night,
  2734. p. 266, line 15Land of lands and bards to corroborate!
  2735. p. 266, line 17To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's,
  2736. p. 266, line 19Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
  2737. p. 266, line 21Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
  2738. p. 266, line 22Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,
  2739. p. 266, line 25Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia, Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
  2740. p. 266, line 27Spanning between them East and West, and touching whatever is between them,
  2741. p. 267, line 3He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with northern transparent ice,
  2742. p. 267, line 4Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
  2743. p. 267, line 5Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,
  2744. p. 267, line 6His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
  2745. p. 267, line 7Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
  2746. p. 267, line 9Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,
  2747. p. 267, line 12The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable,
  2748. p. 267, line 16Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
  2749. p. 267, line 18The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
  2750. p. 267, line 20The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, their curiosity, good temper and open-handedness, the whole composite make,
  2751. p. 267, line 21The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness,
  2752. p. 267, line 24Wharf-hemm'd cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points,
  2753. p. 268, line 4On and on to the grapple with it—Assassin! then your life or ours be the stake, and respite no more.
  2754. p. 268, line 8No more of soft astral, but dazzling and fierce,
  2755. p. 268, line 9With war's flames and the lambent lightnings playing,
  2756. p. 268, line 10And your port immovable where you stand,
  2757. p. 268, line 11With still the inextinguishable glance and the clinch'd and lifted fist,
  2758. p. 268, line 12And your foot on the neck of the menacing one, the scorner utterly crush'd beneath you,
  2759. p. 268, line 13The menacing arrogant one that strode and advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife,
  2760. p. 268, line 15To-day a carrion dead and damn'd, the despised of all the earth,
  2761. p. 268, line 17Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive and ever keeps vista,
  2762. p. 268, line 21O well-beloved stone-cutters, I lead them who plan with decision and science,
  2763. p. 269, line 1By them all native and grand, by them alone can these States be fused into the compact organism of a Nation.
  2764. p. 269, line 2To hold men together by paper and seal or by compulsion is no account,
  2765. p. 269, line 4Of all races and eras these States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets, and are to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
  2766. p. 269, line 6(Soul of love and tongue of fire!
  2767. p. 269, line 7Eye to pierce the deepest deeps and sweep the world!
  2768. p. 269, line 8Ah Mother, prolific and full in all besides, yet how long barren, barren?)
  2769. p. 269, line 14He is the equalizer of his age and land,
  2770. p. 269, line 23In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent,
  2771. p. 270, line 1He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement,
  2772. p. 270, line 2He sees eternity in men and women, he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.
  2773. p. 270, line 3For the great Idea, the idea of perfect and free individuals,
  2774. p. 270, line 5The attitude of him cheers up slaves and horrifies foreign despots.
  2775. p. 270, line 7They live in the feelings of young men and the best women,
  2776. p. 270, line 12Songs of the rapid arming and the march,
  2777. p. 270, line 13The flag of peace quick-folded, and instead the flag we know,
  2778. p. 270, line 20Hark, the ringing word Charge!—now the tussle and the furious maddening yells,
  2779. p. 270, line 26Who would assume to teach here may well prepare himself body and mind,
  2780. p. 270, line 28He shall surely be question'd beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
  2781. p. 271, line 2Have you studied out the land, its idioms and men?
  2782. p. 271, line 3Have you learn'd the physiology, phrenology, politics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship of the land? its substratums and objects?
  2783. p. 271, line 4Have you consider'd the organic compact of the first day of the first year of Independence, sign'd by the Commissioners, ratified by the States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
  2784. p. 271, line 6Do you see who have left all feudal processes and poems behind them, and assumed the poems and processes of Democracy?
  2785. p. 271, line 7Are you faithful to things? do you teach what the land and sea, the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, heroic angers, teach?
  2786. p. 271, line 11Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
  2787. p. 271, line 13Have you too the old ever-fresh forbearance and impartiality?
  2788. p. 271, line 14Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
  2789. p. 271, line 24Can your performance face the open fields and the seaside?
  2790. p. 272, line 2Does it see behind the apparent custodians the real custodians standing, menacing, silent, the mechanics, Manhattanese, Western men, Southerners, significant alike in their apathy, and in the promptness of their love?
  2791. p. 272, line 3Does it see what finally befalls, and has always finally befallen, each temporizer, patcher, outsider, partialist, alarmist, infidel, who has ever ask'd any thing of America?
  2792. p. 272, line 4What mocking and scornful negligence?
  2793. p. 272, line 7Rhymes and rhymers pass away, poems distill'd from poems pass away,
  2794. p. 272, line 8The swarms of reflectors and the polite pass, and leave ashes,
  2795. p. 273, line 6I have given alms to every one that ask'd, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
  2796. p. 273, line 7Hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
  2797. p. 273, line 8Gone freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
  2798. p. 273, line 12Sped to the camps, and comrades found and accepted from every State,
  2799. p. 273, line 19Have I not through life kept you and yours before me?)
  2800. p. 274, line 7Underneath all is the Expression of love for men and women,
  2801. p. 274, line 8(I swear I have seen enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
  2802. p. 274, line 9After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.)
  2803. p. 274, line 11(Talk as you like, he only suits these States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbulence of the States.)
  2804. p. 274, line 14O I see flashing that this America is only you and me,
  2805. p. 274, line 15Its power, weapons, testimony, are you and me,
  2806. p. 274, line 16Its crimes, lies, thefts, defections, are you and me,
  2807. p. 274, line 17Its Congress is you and me, the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,
  2808. p. 274, line 18Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,
  2809. p. 274, line 19The war, (that war so bloody and grim, the war I will henceforth forget), was you and me,
  2810. p. 274, line 20Natural and artificial are you and me,
  2811. p. 274, line 21Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
  2812. p. 274, line 22Past, present, future, are you and me.
  2813. p. 274, line 26Not to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the sexes,
  2814. p. 275, line 2For men and women whose tempers have never been master'd,
  2815. p. 275, line 8I will make cities and civilizations defer to me,
  2816. p. 275, line 9This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount, and it I teach again.
  2817. p. 275, line 13I will confront these shows of the day and night,
  2818. p. 275, line 16I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they,
  2819. p. 275, line 18I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning,
  2820. p. 275, line 19I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
  2821. p. 275, line 21Copious as you are I absorb you all in myself, and become the master myself,
  2822. p. 275, line 27I know not what these plots and wars and deferments are for,
  2823. p. 275, line 28I know not fruition's success, but I know that through war and crime your work goes on, and must yet go on.)
  2824. p. 276, line 2While the winds fann'd me and the waves came trooping toward me,
  2825. p. 276, line 3I thrill'd with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me,
  2826. p. 276, line 5And I saw the free souls of poets,
  2827. p. 276, line 11Have I sung so capricious and loud my savage song.
  2828. p. 276, line 14Till they strike up marches henceforth triumphant and onward,
  2829. p. 277, line 12Some to Atlantica's bays, and so to the great salt brine.
  2830. p. 277, line 18Fusion of ocean and land, tender and pensive waves,
  2831. p. 277, line 19(Not safe and peaceful only, waves rous'd and ominous too,
  2832. p. 277, line 21Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail.)
  2833. p. 277, line 23A windrow-drift of weeds and shells.
  2834. p. 277, line 24O little shells, so curious-convolute, so limpid-cold and voiceless,
  2835. p. 277, line 26Murmurs and echoes still call up, eternity's music faint and far,
  2836. p. 277, line 29Your tidings old, yet ever new and untranslatable,
  2837. p. 277, line 30Infinitesimals out of my life, and many a life,
  2838. p. 278, line 1(For not my life and years alone I give—all, all I give,)
  2839. p. 278, line 2These waifs from the deep, cast high and dry,
  2840. p. 278, line 4FOR the lands and for these passionate days and for myself,
  2841. p. 278, line 7Answering the pulses of thy sane and equable heart,
  2842. p. 278, line 16Sunrise that fullest feeds and freshens most the soul,
  2843. p. 278, line 22The stretching light-hung roof of clouds, the clear cerulean and the silvery fringes,
  2844. p. 278, line 24The moving flocks and herds, the plains and emerald meadows,
  2845. p. 278, line 25The shows of all the varied lands and all the growths and products.
  2846. p. 278, line 27Thou art all over set in births and joys!
  2847. p. 279, line 2As rain falls from the heaven and vapors rise from earth, so have the precious values fallen upon thee and risen out of thee;
  2848. p. 279, line 6Thou Prairie Dame that sittest in the middle and lookest out upon thy world, and lookest East and lookest West,
  2849. p. 279, line 7Dispensatress, that by a word givest a thousand miles, a million farms, and missest nothing,
  2850. p. 279, line 10Sad were the shows around me with deafening noises of hatred and smoke of war;
  2851. p. 279, line 12Or pass'd with slow step through the wounded and dying.
  2852. p. 279, line 20With your shoulders young and strong, with your knapsacks and your muskets;
  2853. p. 279, line 21How elate I stood and watch'd you, where starting off you march'd.
  2854. p. 279, line 26O my land's maim'd darlings, with the plenteous bloody bandage and the crutch,
  2855. p. 280, line 2On the far-stretching beauteous landscape, the roads and lanes, the high-piled farm-wagons, and the fruits and barns,
  2856. p. 280, line 5They fit very well in the landscape under the trees and grass,
  2857. p. 280, line 6And along the edge of the sky in the horizon's far margin.
  2858. p. 280, line 9But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace, like pleasing phantoms,
  2859. p. 280, line 18Worn, swart, handsome, strong, of the stock of homestead and workshop,
  2860. p. 280, line 19Harden'd of many a long campaign and sweaty march,
  2861. p. 280, line 23The world too waits, then soft as breaking night and sure as dawn,
  2862. p. 280, line 27But here and hence your victory.
  2863. p. 281, line 1Loud O my throat, and clear O soul!
  2864. p. 281, line 2The season of thanks and the voice of full-yielding,
  2865. p. 281, line 3The chant of joy and power for boundless fertility.
  2866. p. 281, line 4All till'd and untill'd fields expand before me,
  2867. p. 281, line 6Man's innocent and strong arenas.
  2868. p. 281, line 11And counts the varied gathering of the products.
  2869. p. 281, line 13Prairie, orchard, and yellow grain of the North,
  2870. p. 281, line 14Cotton and rice of the South and Louisianian cane,
  2871. p. 281, line 15Open unseeded fallows, rich fields of clover and timothy,
  2872. p. 281, line 16Kine and horses feeding, and droves of sheep and swine,
  2873. p. 281, line 17And many a stately river flowing and many a jocund brook,
  2874. p. 281, line 18And healthy uplands with herby-perfumed breezes,
  2875. p. 281, line 19And the good green grass, that delicate miracle the ever-recurring grass.
  2876. p. 281, line 22With dilated form and lambent eyes watch'd you.
  2877. p. 281, line 29The steam-power reaping-machines and the horse-power machines,
  2878. p. 281, line 30The engines, thrashers of grain and cleaners of grain, well separating the straw, the nimble work of the patent pitchfork,
  2879. p. 281, line 31Beholdest the newer saw-mill, the southern cotton-gin, and the rice-cleanser.
  2880. p. 282, line 2With these and else and with their own strong hands the heroes harvest.
  2881. p. 282, line 3All gather and all harvest,
  2882. p. 282, line 11Gather the cotton in Mississippi or Alabama, dig and hoard the golden the sweet potato of Georgia and the Carolinas,
  2883. p. 282, line 14Pick the pea and the bean, or pull apples from the trees or bunches of grapes from the vines,
  2884. p. 282, line 16Under the beaming sun and under thee.
  2885. p. 282, line 18And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,
  2886. p. 282, line 19And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,
  2887. p. 282, line 22And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,
  2888. p. 282, line 23And the Third-month lambs and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal and the cow's calf,
  2889. p. 282, line 24And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pond-side,
  2890. p. 283, line 1And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid,
  2891. p. 283, line 2And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.
  2892. p. 283, line 3The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him,
  2893. p. 283, line 4Winter-grain sprouts and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,
  2894. p. 283, line 5And the apple-trees cover'd with blossoms and the fruit afterward, and wood-berries, and the commonest weeds by the road,
  2895. p. 283, line 6And the old drunkard staggering home from the outhouse of the tavern whence he had lately risen,
  2896. p. 283, line 7And the schoolmistress that pass'd on her way to the school,
  2897. p. 283, line 8And the friendly boys that pass'd, and the quarrelsome boys,
  2898. p. 283, line 9And the tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls, and the barefoot negro boy and girl,
  2899. p. 283, line 10And all the changes of city and country wherever he went.
  2900. p. 283, line 11His own parents, he that had father'd him and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb and birth'd him,
  2901. p. 283, line 15The mother with mild words, clean her cap and gown, a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by,
  2902. p. 283, line 18The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture, the yearning and swelling heart,
  2903. p. 283, line 20The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time, the curious whether and how,
  2904. p. 283, line 21Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
  2905. p. 283, line 22Men and women crowding fast in the streets, if they are not flashes and specks what are they?
  2906. p. 283, line 23The streets themselves and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
  2907. p. 284, line 1Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown two miles off,
  2908. p. 284, line 5The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud,
  2909. p. 284, line 6These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
  2910. p. 284, line 9Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground,
  2911. p. 284, line 12Long silent, she too long silent, mourning her shrouded hope and heir,
  2912. p. 284, line 19The Lord is not dead, he is risen again young and strong in another country,
  2913. p. 284, line 22The winds favor'd and the sea sail'd it,
  2914. p. 284, line 23And now with rosy and new blood,
  2915. p. 285, line 3That house once full of passion and beauty, all else I notice not,
  2916. p. 285, line 12Dead house of love—house of madness and sin, crumbled, crush'd,
  2917. p. 285, line 13House of life, erewhile talking and laughing—but ah, poor house, dead even then,
  2918. p. 285, line 24Is not every continent work'd over and over with sour dead?
  2919. p. 285, line 26Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations?
  2920. p. 286, line 1Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
  2921. p. 286, line 3I will run a furrow with my plough, I will press my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath,
  2922. p. 286, line 12The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mulberry-tree,
  2923. p. 286, line 13The he-birds carol mornings and evenings while the she-birds sit on their nests,
  2924. p. 286, line 18The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
  2925. p. 286, line 24That all is clean forever and forever,
  2926. p. 286, line 26That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,
  2927. p. 286, line 27That the fruits of the apple-orchard and the orange-orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
  2928. p. 287, line 1Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient,
  2929. p. 287, line 3It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseas'd corpses,
  2930. p. 287, line 6It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
  2931. p. 287, line 13Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
  2932. p. 287, line 18And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him,
  2933. p. 287, line 19And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.)
  2934. p. 287, line 20The battle rages with many a loud alarm and frequent advance and retreat,
  2935. p. 287, line 22The prison, scaffold, garroté, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work,
  2936. p. 287, line 23The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
  2937. p. 287, line 24The great speakers and writers are exiled, they lie sick in distant lands,
  2938. p. 288, line 3When there are no more memories of heroes and martyrs,
  2939. p. 288, line 4And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
  2940. p. 288, line 6And the infidel come into full possession.
  2941. p. 288, line 14And that death and dismay are great.
  2942. p. 288, line 15NATIONS ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten thousand years before these States,
  2943. p. 288, line 16Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course and pass'd on,
  2944. p. 288, line 17What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes and nomads,
  2945. p. 288, line 20What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
  2946. p. 288, line 21What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death and the soul,
  2947. p. 288, line 22Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and undevelop'd,
  2948. p. 288, line 23Not a mark, not a record remains—and yet all remains.
  2949. p. 288, line 24O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
  2950. p. 289, line 3Some with oval countenances learn'd and calm,
  2951. p. 289, line 4Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
  2952. p. 289, line 12I believe of all those men and women that fill'd the unnamed lands, every one exists this hour here or elsewhere, invisible to us,
  2953. p. 289, line 13In exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinn'd, in life.
  2954. p. 289, line 20On Time, Space, Reality—on such as these, and abreast with them Prudence.
  2955. p. 289, line 22Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
  2956. p. 290, line 9Charity and personal force are the only investments worth any thing.
  2957. p. 290, line 11In the unshakable order of the universe and through the whole scope of it forever.
  2958. p. 290, line 15Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, all of the past and all of the present and all of the future,
  2959. p. 290, line 16All the brave actions of war and peace,
  2960. p. 290, line 17All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, young children, widows, the sick, and to shunn'd persons,
  2961. p. 290, line 18All self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
  2962. p. 290, line 21All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
  2963. p. 290, line 23All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,
  2964. p. 291, line 8No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other,
  2965. p. 291, line 11Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of souls,
  2966. p. 291, line 21Knows that the young man who composedly peril'd his life and lost it has done exceedingly well for himself without doubt,
  2967. p. 291, line 22That he who never peril'd his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achiev'd nothing for himself worth mentioning,
  2968. p. 291, line 24Who favors body and soul the same,
  2969. p. 292, line 1O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  2970. p. 292, line 5Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong the like whereof was never heard,
  2971. p. 292, line 6Reaching the far-off sentry and the armed guards, who ceas'd their pacing,
  2972. p. 292, line 7Making the hearer's pulses stop for ecstasy and awe.
  2973. p. 292, line 9When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land,
  2974. p. 292, line 15She, first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude,
  2975. p. 292, line 17A soul confined by bars and bands,
  2976. p. 292, line 18Cries, help! O help! and wrings her hands,
  2977. p. 292, line 21Ceaseless she paces to and fro,
  2978. p. 293, line 1To set thee free and bear thee home,
  2979. p. 293, line 7Strange sea of prison faces, a thousand varied, crafty, brutal, seam'd and beauteous faces,
  2980. p. 293, line 11While upon all, convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd,
  2981. p. 293, line 13A hush and pause fell down a wondrous minute,
  2982. p. 293, line 14With deep half-stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved to weeping,
  2983. p. 293, line 15And youth's convulsive breathings, memories of home,
  2984. p. 293, line 22O sight of pity, shame and dole!
  2985. p. 293, line 25Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer,
  2986. p. 293, line 27Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air,
  2987. p. 294, line 1Blue-bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings,
  2988. p. 294, line 4All that is jocund and sparkling, the brooks running,
  2989. p. 294, line 5The maple woods, the crisp February days and the sugar-making,
  2990. p. 294, line 7With musical clear call at sunrise, and again at sunset,
  2991. p. 294, line 10For spring-time is here! the summer is here! and what is this in it and from it?
  2992. p. 294, line 12Come, let us lag here no longer, let us be up and away!
  2993. p. 294, line 19Samples and sorts not for themselves alone, but for their atmosphere,
  2994. p. 295, line 7The carpet swept and a fire in the cheerful stove.
  2995. p. 295, line 12In one, by twos and threes, young people,
  2996. p. 295, line 13Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads,
  2997. p. 295, line 17Chatting and sewing.
  2998. p. 295, line 19'Mid plenteous books and journals, paintings on the walls, fine statuettes,
  2999. p. 295, line 20Were groups of friendly journeymen, mechanics young and old,
  3000. p. 295, line 23City and country, women's, men's and children's,
  3001. p. 295, line 24Their wants provided for, hued in the sun and tinged for once with joy,
  3002. p. 295, line 26Labor and toil, the bath, gymnasium, playground, library, college,
  3003. p. 295, line 28The sick cared for, the shoeless shod, the orphan father'd and mother'd,
  3004. p. 295, line 30(The intentions perfect and divine,
  3005. p. 296, line 2Thy name an earth, with mountains, fields and tides.
  3006. p. 296, line 5By you and all your teeming life old Thames,
  3007. p. 296, line 10These lights and shades, this drama of the whole,
  3008. p. 296, line 22To launch and spin through space revolving sideling, from these to emanate,
  3009. p. 296, line 24A traveler of thoughts and years, of peace and war,
  3010. p. 296, line 25Of youth long sped and middle age declining,
  3011. p. 296, line 26(As the first volume of a tale perused and laid away, and this the second,
  3012. p. 296, line 28Lingering a moment here and now, to you I opposite turn,
  3013. p. 297, line 3To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
  3014. p. 297, line 5VOCALISM, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words;
  3015. p. 297, line 6Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from physique?
  3016. p. 297, line 9For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
  3017. p. 297, line 10After treading ground and breasting river and lake,
  3018. p. 297, line 12After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,
  3019. p. 297, line 13After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power to speak words;
  3020. p. 297, line 21Where is the practis'd and perfect organ? where is the develop'd soul?
  3021. p. 298, line 1I see brains and lips closed, tympans and temples unstruck,
  3022. p. 298, line 2Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
  3023. p. 298, line 7I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you, and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to come also,
  3024. p. 298, line 8That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and succession,
  3025. p. 298, line 12We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that is asserted,
  3026. p. 298, line 13We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
  3027. p. 298, line 15Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
  3028. p. 298, line 16Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove brethren and lovers as we are.
  3029. p. 298, line 18You convicts in prison-cells, you sentenced assassins chain'd and handcuff'd with iron,
  3030. p. 298, line 20Me ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?
  3031. p. 299, line 4Inside these breast-bones I lie smutch'd and choked,
  3032. p. 299, line 6Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me,
  3033. p. 299, line 8I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,
  3034. p. 299, line 9And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
  3035. p. 299, line 11For strong artists and leaders, for fresh broods of teachers and perfect literats for America,
  3036. p. 299, line 12For noble savans and coming musicians.
  3037. p. 299, line 13All must have reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world,
  3038. p. 299, line 16What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
  3039. p. 299, line 18And that there is no God any more divine than Yourself?
  3040. p. 299, line 19And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?
  3041. p. 299, line 20And that you or any one must approach creations through such laws?
  3042. p. 299, line 21BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,
  3043. p. 299, line 23Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
  3044. p. 300, line 1My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
  3045. p. 300, line 2And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
  3046. p. 300, line 5For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it,
  3047. p. 300, line 9It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
  3048. p. 300, line 12It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery, politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
  3049. p. 300, line 14OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like;
  3050. p. 300, line 15(To me all that those persons have arrived at sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and souls,
  3051. p. 300, line 16So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
  3052. p. 300, line 17And often to me each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
  3053. p. 300, line 18And of each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,
  3054. p. 300, line 19And often to me those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
  3055. p. 300, line 20And often to me they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
  3056. p. 300, line 21And often to me they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules walking the dusk.)
  3057. p. 301, line 13Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  3058. p. 301, line 15These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
  3059. p. 301, line 16The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
  3060. p. 301, line 17To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
  3061. p. 301, line 28Bending over he carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and knee,
  3062. p. 302, line 3The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me,
  3063. p. 302, line 4The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather,
  3064. p. 302, line 5Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested,
  3065. p. 302, line 13You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
  3066. p. 302, line 14Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress'd with your Personality?
  3067. p. 302, line 15O the magnet! the flesh over and over!
  3068. p. 302, line 16Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,
  3069. p. 302, line 17Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.
  3070. p. 302, line 18UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,
  3071. p. 303, line 2Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
  3072. p. 303, line 7A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman;
  3073. p. 303, line 9WHAT am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
  3074. p. 303, line 13WHO includes diversity and is Nature,
  3075. p. 303, line 14Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
  3076. p. 303, line 16Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
  3077. p. 303, line 17Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the æsthetic or intellectual,
  3078. p. 303, line 18Who having consider'd the body finds all its organs and parts good,
  3079. p. 303, line 19Who, out of the theory of the earth and of his or her body understands by subtle analogies all other theories,
  3080. p. 303, line 20The theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of these States;
  3081. p. 304, line 1Who believes not only in our globe with its sun and moon, but in other globes with their suns and moons,
  3082. p. 304, line 7And exudes it all again.
  3083. p. 304, line 9Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman and atheist,
  3084. p. 304, line 10The stupid and the wise thinker, parents and offspring, merchant, clerk, porter and customer,
  3085. p. 304, line 11Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—draw nigh and commence;
  3086. p. 304, line 13And that to another, and every one to another still.
  3087. p. 304, line 14The great laws take and effuse without argument,
  3088. p. 304, line 16I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.
  3089. p. 304, line 17I lie abstracted and hear beautiful tales of things and the reasons of things,
  3090. p. 304, line 20It is no small matter, this round and delicious globe moving so exactly in its orbit for ever and ever, without one jolt or the untruth of a single second,
  3091. p. 304, line 22Nor plann'd and built one thing after another as an architect plans and builds a house.
  3092. p. 305, line 5I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful,
  3093. p. 305, line 6And pass'd from a babe in the creeping trance of a couple of summers and winters to articulate and walk—all this is equally wonderful.
  3094. p. 305, line 7And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, is every bit as wonderful.
  3095. p. 305, line 8And that I can think such thoughts as these is just as wonderful,
  3096. p. 305, line 9And that I can remind you, and you think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
  3097. p. 305, line 10And that the moon spins round the earth and on with the earth, is equally wonderful,
  3098. p. 305, line 11And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderful.
  3099. p. 305, line 14They are the judges of outer authorities and of all traditions,
  3100. p. 305, line 15They corroborate as they go only whatever corroborates themselves, and touches themselves;
  3101. p. 305, line 16For all that, they have it forever in themselves to corroborate far and near without one exception.
  3102. p. 306, line 2The brightness of thy hope and strength and fame,
  3103. p. 306, line 5And 'mid its teeming madden'd half-drown'd crowds,
  3104. p. 306, line 9The struggle and the daring, rage divine for liberty,
  3105. p. 306, line 11Of terror to the tyrant and the priest.
  3106. p. 306, line 16Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quell'd them all,
  3107. p. 306, line 17And left thee sacred.
  3108. p. 306, line 23This cross, thy livid face, thy pierced hands and feet,
  3109. p. 306, line 25O star! O ship of France, beat back and baffled long!
  3110. p. 306, line 28Product of deathly fire and turbulent chaos,
  3111. p. 306, line 29Forth from its spasms of fury and its poisons,
  3112. p. 306, line 30Issuing at last in perfect power and beauty,
  3113. p. 307, line 10There they bring him the three-year-olds and the four-year-olds to break them,
  3114. p. 307, line 11He will take the wildest steer in the world and break him and tame him,
  3115. p. 307, line 12He will go fearless without any whip where the young bullock chafes up and down the yard,
  3116. p. 307, line 15See you! on the farms hereabout a hundred oxen young and old, and he is the man who has tamed them,
  3117. p. 307, line 20See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs,
  3118. p. 307, line 21How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!
  3119. p. 308, line 2An old man gathering youthful memories and blooms that youth itself cannot.
  3120. p. 308, line 5And these I see, these sparkling eyes,
  3121. p. 308, line 10Only a lot of boys and girls?
  3122. p. 308, line 14(As George Fox rais'd his warning cry, "Is it this pile of brick and mortar, these dead floors, windows, rails, you call the church?
  3123. p. 308, line 16And you America,
  3124. p. 308, line 18The lights and shadows of your future, good or evil?
  3125. p. 308, line 19To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.
  3126. p. 308, line 23Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay, with every meanness, treason thrust upon thee,
  3127. p. 308, line 25The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic,
  3128. p. 308, line 26Fail not to certify and cheer my soul.
  3129. p. 309, line 3If vermin so transposed, so used and bless'd may be,
  3130. p. 309, line 10In dulcet streams, in flutes' and cornets' notes,
  3131. p. 309, line 17And thy ecstatic chorus Poliuto;)
  3132. p. 309, line 27Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee,
  3133. p. 310, line 4Here the tableaus of life, and here the groupings of death;
  3134. p. 310, line 8Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
  3135. p. 310, line 10By all the world contributed—freedom's and law's and thrift's society,
  3136. p. 310, line 11The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations,
  3137. p. 310, line 26Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire,
  3138. p. 310, line 29For thee they sing and dance O soul.
  3139. p. 311, line 2The duet of the bridegroom and the bride, a marriage-march,
  3140. p. 311, line 3With lips of love, and hearts of lovers fill'd to the brim with love,
  3141. p. 311, line 4The red-flush'd cheeks and perfumes, the cortege swarming full of friendly faces young and old,
  3142. p. 311, line 5To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
  3143. p. 311, line 10The hiss and crackle of flames, the blacken'd ruins, the embers of cities,
  3144. p. 311, line 11The dirge and desolation of mankind.)
  3145. p. 311, line 12Now airs antique and mediæval fill me,
  3146. p. 311, line 13I see and hear old harpers with their harps at Welsh festivals,
  3147. p. 311, line 18On which arising rest, and leaping forth depend,
  3148. p. 311, line 19All shapes of beauty, grace and strength, all hues we know,
  3149. p. 311, line 20Green blades of grass and warbling birds, children that gambol and play, the clouds of heaven above,)
  3150. p. 311, line 21The strong base stands, and its pulsations intermits not,
  3151. p. 311, line 23And with it every instrument in multitudes,
  3152. p. 311, line 25The solemn hymns and masses rousing adoration,
  3153. p. 311, line 28And for their solvent setting earth's own diapason,
  3154. p. 311, line 29Of winds and woods and mighty ocean waves,
  3155. p. 311, line 30A new composite orchestra, binder of years and climes, ten-fold renewer,
  3156. p. 311, line 34And man and art with Nature fused again.
  3157. p. 312, line 1Tutti! for earth and heaven;
  3158. p. 312, line 4And all the wives responding.
  3159. p. 312, line 21The German airs of friendship, wine and love,
  3160. p. 312, line 22Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles,
  3161. p. 312, line 23Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest,
  3162. p. 312, line 28Her hair down her back falls loose and dishevel'd.
  3163. p. 312, line 32To crossing swords and gray hairs bared to heaven,
  3164. p. 312, line 33The clear electric base and baritone of the world,
  3165. p. 313, line 2By old and heavy convent walls a wailing song,
  3166. p. 313, line 3Song of lost love, the torch of youth and life quench'd in despair,
  3167. p. 313, line 6Copious as stars and glad as morning light the torrents of her joy.
  3168. p. 313, line 11I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
  3169. p. 313, line 16The bolero to tinkling guitars and clattering castanets.
  3170. p. 313, line 17I see religious dances old and new,
  3171. p. 313, line 21I see the rapt religious dances of the Persians and the Arabs,
  3172. p. 313, line 26I see the Roman youth to the shrill sound of flageolets throwing and catching their weapons,
  3173. p. 313, line 27As they fall on their knees and rise again.
  3174. p. 314, line 4To the delicate sounds of the king, (the stricken wood and stone,)
  3175. p. 314, line 5Or to Hindu flutes and the fretting twang of the vina,
  3176. p. 314, line 8To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices,
  3177. p. 314, line 14And you, sweet singers of old lands, soprani, tenori, bassi!
  3178. p. 314, line 18All senses, shows and objects, lead to thee,
  3179. p. 314, line 26The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,
  3180. p. 314, line 29And pausing, questioning awhile the music of my dream,
  3181. p. 314, line 30And questioning all those reminiscences, the tempest in its fury,
  3182. p. 314, line 31And all the songs of sopranos and tenors,
  3183. p. 314, line 32And those rapt oriental dances of religious fervor,
  3184. p. 315, line 1And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs,
  3185. p. 315, line 2And all the artless plaints of love and grief and death,
  3186. p. 315, line 8And I said, moreover,
  3187. p. 315, line 13Nor strophes of husbands and wives, nor sound of marching soldiers,
  3188. p. 315, line 17Which let us go forth in the bold day and write.
  3189. p. 315, line 25Yet first to sound, and ever sound, the cry with thee O soul,
  3190. p. 315, line 28The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!
  3191. p. 316, line 7But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables,
  3192. p. 316, line 9The deep diving bibles and legends,
  3193. p. 316, line 13You lofty and dazzling towers, pinnacled, red as roses, burnish'd with gold!
  3194. p. 316, line 15You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest!
  3195. p. 316, line 20The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage,
  3196. p. 316, line 27But in God's name, and for thy sake O soul.
  3197. p. 317, line 3I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying freight and passengers,
  3198. p. 317, line 4I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring, and the shrill steam-whistle,
  3199. p. 317, line 7I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions, the barren, colorless, sage-deserts,
  3200. p. 317, line 8I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great mountains, I see the Wind river and the Wahsatch mountains,
  3201. p. 317, line 9I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest, I pass the Promontory, I ascend the Nevadas,
  3202. p. 317, line 10I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base,
  3203. p. 317, line 11I see the Humboldt range, I thread the valley and cross the river,
  3204. p. 317, line 13Or crossing the great desert, the alkaline plains, I behold enchanting mirages of waters and meadows,
  3205. p. 317, line 14Marking through these and after all, in duplicate slender lines,
  3206. p. 317, line 17The road between Europe and Asia.
  3207. p. 317, line 23Over my mood stealing and spreading they come,
  3208. p. 317, line 24Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach'd sky.
  3209. p. 317, line 26As a rivulet running, sinking now, and now again to the surface rising,
  3210. p. 318, line 3Lands found and nations born, thou born America,
  3211. p. 318, line 7Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty,
  3212. p. 318, line 8Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness,
  3213. p. 318, line 9Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above,
  3214. p. 318, line 10Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees,
  3215. p. 318, line 14Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
  3216. p. 318, line 17With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?
  3217. p. 318, line 24Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out,
  3218. p. 318, line 27After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work,
  3219. p. 318, line 31Then not your deeds only O voyagers, O scientists and inventors, shall be justified,
  3220. p. 319, line 3All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and link'd together,
  3221. p. 319, line 5Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the true son of God, the poet,
  3222. p. 319, line 6(He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains,
  3223. p. 319, line 8Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no more,
  3224. p. 319, line 12Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!
  3225. p. 319, line 14I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
  3226. p. 319, line 15Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
  3227. p. 319, line 17As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.
  3228. p. 319, line 23The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,
  3229. p. 319, line 26On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,
  3230. p. 319, line 27To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
  3231. p. 319, line 29Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,
  3232. p. 319, line 30Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,
  3233. p. 320, line 9And who art thou sad shade?
  3234. p. 320, line 11With majestic limbs and pious beaming eyes,
  3235. p. 320, line 26And fills the earth with use and beauty.)
  3236. p. 320, line 28Not lands and seas alone, thy own clear freshness,
  3237. p. 320, line 29The young maturity of brood and bloom,
  3238. p. 320, line 31O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me,
  3239. p. 321, line 8With laugh and many a kiss,
  3240. p. 321, line 15Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing,
  3241. p. 321, line 19I and my soul to range in range of thee.
  3242. p. 321, line 21Nameless, the fibre and the breath,
  3243. p. 321, line 33At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and Death,
  3244. p. 322, line 1And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,
  3245. p. 322, line 3And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.
  3246. p. 322, line 6What love than thine and ours could wider amplify?
  3247. p. 322, line 7What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?
  3248. p. 322, line 20Soundest below the Sanscrit and the Vedas?
  3249. p. 322, line 26O secret of the earth and sky!
  3250. p. 322, line 27Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers!
  3251. p. 322, line 28Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of my land!
  3252. p. 322, line 30O morning red! O clouds! O rain and snows!
  3253. p. 322, line 31O day and night, passage to you!
  3254. p. 322, line 32O sun and moon and all you stars! Sirius and Jupiter!
  3255. p. 323, line 3Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
  3256. p. 323, line 4Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?
  3257. p. 323, line 6Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
  3258. p. 323, line 8And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
  3259. p. 323, line 15Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,
  3260. p. 323, line 16Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,
  3261. p. 323, line 26My long and crowded life of active work, not adoration merely;
  3262. p. 323, line 27Thou knowest the prayers and vigils of my youth,
  3263. p. 323, line 28Thou knowest my manhood's solemn and visionary meditations,
  3264. p. 323, line 30Thou knowest I have in age ratified all those vows and strictly kept them,
  3265. p. 324, line 4My speculations, plans, begun and carried on in thoughts of Thee,
  3266. p. 324, line 12By me and these the work so far accomplish'd,
  3267. p. 324, line 13By me earth's elder cloy'd and stifled lands uncloy'd, unloos'd,
  3268. p. 324, line 14By me the hemispheres rounded and tied, the unknown to the known.
  3269. p. 324, line 20Haply the lifeless cross I know, Europe's dead cross, may bud and blossom there.
  3270. p. 324, line 27Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee.
  3271. p. 325, line 7And these things I see suddenly, what mean they?
  3272. p. 325, line 9Shadowy vast shapes smile through the air and sky,
  3273. p. 325, line 10And on the distant waves sail countless ships,
  3274. p. 325, line 11And anthems in new tongues I hear saluting me.
  3275. p. 325, line 13Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping,
  3276. p. 325, line 15Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
  3277. p. 325, line 16Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.
  3278. p. 325, line 17How solemn they look there, stretch'd and still,
  3279. p. 325, line 20The gash'd bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-door'd rooms, the sacred idiots, the new-born emerging from gates, and the dying emerging from gates,
  3280. p. 325, line 21The night pervades them and infolds them.
  3281. p. 325, line 22The married couple sleep calmly in their bed, he with his palm on the hip of the wife, and she with her palm on the hip of the husband,
  3282. p. 325, line 25And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapt.
  3283. p. 326, line 1The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
  3284. p. 326, line 4And the murder'd person, how does he sleep?
  3285. p. 326, line 6And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
  3286. p. 326, line 8And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.
  3287. p. 326, line 9I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst-suffering and the most restless,
  3288. p. 326, line 10I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
  3289. p. 326, line 14I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
  3290. p. 326, line 17And I become the other dreamers.
  3291. p. 326, line 19I am the ever-laughing—it is new moon and twilight,
  3292. p. 326, line 21Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground nor sea.
  3293. p. 326, line 23Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
  3294. p. 326, line 24I reckon I am their boss and they make me a pet besides,
  3295. p. 326, line 25And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk,
  3296. p. 326, line 26To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms, and resume the way;
  3297. p. 326, line 27Onward we move, a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
  3298. p. 326, line 29The emigrant and the exile, the criminal that stood in the box,
  3299. p. 326, line 30He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to-day,
  3300. p. 327, line 1I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly,
  3301. p. 327, line 2My truant lover has come, and it is dark.
  3302. p. 327, line 3Double yourself and receive me darkness,
  3303. p. 327, line 4Receive me and my lover too, he will not let me go without him.
  3304. p. 327, line 6He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
  3305. p. 327, line 8Darkness, you are gentler than my lover, his flesh was sweaty and panting,
  3306. p. 327, line 13I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
  3307. p. 327, line 16Perfume and youth course through me and I am their wake.
  3308. p. 327, line 17It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's,
  3309. p. 327, line 18I sit low in a straw-bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
  3310. p. 327, line 20I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
  3311. p. 327, line 21A shroud I see and I am the shroud, I wrap a body and lie in the coffin,
  3312. p. 327, line 23(It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy,
  3313. p. 327, line 24Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough.)
  3314. p. 328, line 2His brown hair lies close and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs,
  3315. p. 328, line 7Steady and long he struggles,
  3316. p. 328, line 11Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
  3317. p. 328, line 16I look where the ship helplessly heads end on, I hear the burst as she strikes, I hear the howls of dismay, they grow fainter and fainter.
  3318. p. 328, line 18I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
  3319. p. 328, line 20In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
  3320. p. 329, line 1His face is cold and damp, he cannot repress the weeping drops,
  3321. p. 329, line 4The same at last and at last when peace is declared,
  3322. p. 329, line 6The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
  3323. p. 329, line 7The chief encircles their necks with his arm and kisses them on the cheek,
  3324. p. 329, line 8He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another, he shakes hands and bids good-by to the army.
  3325. p. 329, line 14Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
  3326. p. 329, line 15My mother look'd in delight and amazement at the stranger,
  3327. p. 329, line 16She look'd at the freshness of her tall-borne face and full and pliant limbs,
  3328. p. 329, line 18Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity,
  3329. p. 329, line 20She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
  3330. p. 329, line 21The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
  3331. p. 329, line 24She remember'd her many a winter and many a summer,
  3332. p. 330, line 1A show of the summer softness—a contact of something unseen—an amour of the light and air,
  3333. p. 330, line 2I am jealous and overwhelm'd with friendliness,
  3334. p. 330, line 3And will go gallivant with the light and air myself.
  3335. p. 330, line 4O love and summer, you are in the dreams and in me,
  3336. p. 330, line 5Autumn and winter are in the dreams, the farmer goes with his thrift,
  3337. p. 330, line 6The droves and crops increase, the barns are well-fill'd.
  3338. p. 330, line 9The fugitive returns unharm'd, the immigrant is back beyond months and years,
  3339. p. 330, line 10The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood with the well-known neighbors and faces,
  3340. p. 330, line 12The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
  3341. p. 330, line 14The Swiss foots it toward his hills, the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,
  3342. p. 330, line 15The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
  3343. p. 330, line 16The homeward bound and the outward bound,
  3344. p. 330, line 18The actor and actress, those through with their parts and those waiting to commence,
  3345. p. 330, line 19The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen and the nominee that has fail'd,
  3346. p. 330, line 20The great already known and the great any time after to-day,
  3347. p. 330, line 22The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
  3348. p. 330, line 23The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,
  3349. p. 330, line 25The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
  3350. p. 330, line 27The night and sleep have liken'd them and restored them.
  3351. p. 331, line 3The wildest and bloodiest is over, and all is peace.
  3352. p. 331, line 5The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
  3353. p. 331, line 8It comes from its embower'd garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world,
  3354. p. 331, line 9Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
  3355. p. 331, line 10The head well-grown proportion'd and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportion'd and plumb.
  3356. p. 331, line 13What has arrived is in its place and what waits shall be in its place,
  3357. p. 331, line 15The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
  3358. p. 331, line 16The sleepers that lived and died wait, the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to come on in their turns,
  3359. p. 331, line 17The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
  3360. p. 331, line 20The Asiatic and African are hand in hand, the European and American are hand in hand,
  3361. p. 331, line 21Learn'd and unlearn'd are hand in hand, and male and female are hand in hand,
  3362. p. 331, line 23The father holds his grown or ungrown son in his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love,
  3363. p. 332, line 3The scholar kisses the teacher and the teacher kisses the scholar, the wrong'd is made right,
  3364. p. 332, line 4The call of the slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave,
  3365. p. 332, line 6The sweatings and fevers stop, the throat that was unsound is sound, the lungs of the consumptive are resumed, the poor distress'd head is free,
  3366. p. 332, line 7The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
  3367. p. 332, line 8Stiflings and passages open, the paralyzed become supple,
  3368. p. 332, line 9The swell'd and convuls'd and congested awake to themselves in condition,
  3369. p. 332, line 10They pass the invigoration of the night and the chemistry of the night, and awake.
  3370. p. 332, line 12I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again and love you.
  3371. p. 332, line 16I know not how I came of you and I know not where I go with you, but I know I came well and shall go well.
  3372. p. 332, line 17I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,
  3373. p. 332, line 18I will duly pass the day O my mother, and duly return to you.
  3374. p. 332, line 20Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys;
  3375. p. 332, line 21Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.
  3376. p. 333, line 2To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward.
  3377. p. 333, line 8To think that the sun rose in the east—that men and women were flexible, real, alive—that every thing was alive,
  3378. p. 333, line 9To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part,
  3379. p. 333, line 10To think that we are now here and bear our part.
  3380. p. 333, line 13The dull nights go over and the dull days also,
  3381. p. 333, line 15The physician after long putting off gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
  3382. p. 333, line 16The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
  3383. p. 333, line 20The breath ceases and the pulse of the heart ceases,
  3384. p. 333, line 21The corpse stretches on the bed and the living look upon it,
  3385. p. 333, line 24But without eyesight lingers a different living and looks curiously on the corpse.
  3386. p. 333, line 26To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them, and we taking no interest in them.
  3387. p. 334, line 2To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent.
  3388. p. 334, line 5Slow-moving and black lines creep over the whole earth—they never cease—they are the burial lines,
  3389. p. 334, line 6He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
  3390. p. 334, line 8A frequent sample of the life and death of workmen,
  3391. p. 334, line 10Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf, posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets,
  3392. p. 334, line 12A hearse and stages, the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
  3393. p. 334, line 15The coffin is pass'd out, lower'd and settled, the whip is laid on the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovel'd in,
  3394. p. 334, line 22Died, aged forty-one years—and that was his funeral.
  3395. p. 334, line 24Boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, headway, man before and man behind,
  3396. p. 335, line 1To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers, and he there takes no interest in them.
  3397. p. 335, line 2The markets, the government, the working-man's wages, to think what account they are through our nights and days,
  3398. p. 335, line 4The vulgar and the refined, what you call sin and what you call goodness, to think how wide a difference,
  3399. p. 335, line 7Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? or planning a nomination and election? or with your wife and family?
  3400. p. 335, line 8Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly housework? or the beautiful maternal cares?
  3401. p. 335, line 9These also flow onward to others, you and I flow onward,
  3402. p. 335, line 10But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
  3403. p. 335, line 14To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
  3404. p. 335, line 17The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,
  3405. p. 335, line 18The earth is not an echo, man and his life and all the things of his life are well-consider'd.
  3406. p. 335, line 19You are not thrown to the winds, you gather certainly and safely around yourself,
  3407. p. 335, line 20Yourself! yourself! yourself, for ever and ever!
  3408. p. 335, line 21It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father, it is to identify you,
  3409. p. 336, line 2Something long preparing and formless is arrived and form'd in you,
  3410. p. 336, line 8He is one of those who are beautiful and happy, he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
  3411. p. 336, line 10The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
  3412. p. 336, line 12The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
  3413. p. 336, line 13The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
  3414. p. 336, line 15Slow moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
  3415. p. 336, line 16Northerner goes carried and Southerner goes carried, and they on the Atlantic side and they on the Pacific,
  3416. p. 336, line 17And they between, and all through the Mississippi country, and all over the earth.
  3417. p. 336, line 18The great masters and kosmos are well as they go, the heroes and good-doers are well,
  3418. p. 336, line 19The known leaders and inventors and the rich owners and pious and distinguish'd may be well,
  3419. p. 336, line 21The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
  3420. p. 336, line 22The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
  3421. p. 336, line 24Of and in all these things,
  3422. p. 337, line 1I have dream'd that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
  3423. p. 337, line 2And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
  3424. p. 337, line 4And I have dream'd that the purpose and essence of the known life, the transient,
  3425. p. 337, line 5Is to form and decide identity for the unknown life, the permanent.
  3426. p. 337, line 7If maggots and rats ended us, then Alarum! for we are betray'd,
  3427. p. 337, line 10Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
  3428. p. 337, line 11Pleasantly and well-suited I walk,
  3429. p. 337, line 14The past and the present indicate that it is good.
  3430. p. 337, line 15How beautiful and perfect are the animals!
  3431. p. 337, line 16How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
  3432. p. 337, line 17What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
  3433. p. 337, line 18The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the imponderable fluids perfect;
  3434. p. 337, line 19Slowly and surely they have pass'd on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
  3435. p. 337, line 23That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
  3436. p. 337, line 24And all preparation is for it—and identity is for it—and life and materials are altogether for it!
  3437. p. 338, line 11All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,
  3438. p. 338, line 14In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,
  3439. p. 338, line 18Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low,
  3440. p. 338, line 22Mournfully slowly they roll, silently swelling and mixing,
  3441. p. 338, line 24Appearing and disappearing.
  3442. p. 339, line 2Out of the old and new, out of the square entirely divine,
  3443. p. 339, line 4Old Brahm I, and I Saturnius am;
  3444. p. 339, line 11But as the seasons and gravitation, and as all the appointed days that forgive not,
  3445. p. 339, line 15Foretold by prophets and poets in their most rapt prophecies and poems,
  3446. p. 339, line 18Many times have I been rejected, taunted, put in prison, and crucified, and many times shall be again,
  3447. p. 339, line 19All the world have I given up for my dear brothers' and sisters' sake, for the soul's sake,
  3448. p. 339, line 21For I am affection, I am the cheer-bringing God, with hope and all-enclosing charity,
  3449. p. 339, line 22With indulgent words as to children, with fresh and sane words, mine only,
  3450. p. 339, line 23Young and strong I pass knowing well I am destin'd myself to an early death;
  3451. p. 339, line 25And my sweet love bequeath'd here and elsewhere never dies.
  3452. p. 340, line 4With sudra face and worn brow, black, but in the depths of my heart, proud as any,
  3453. p. 340, line 5Lifted now and always against whoever scorning assumes to rule me,
  3454. p. 340, line 7(Though it was thought I was baffled and dispel'd, and my wiles done, but that will never be,)
  3455. p. 340, line 8Defiant, I, Satan, still live, still utter words, in new lands duly appearing, (and old ones also,)
  3456. p. 340, line 15Including all life on earth, touching, including God, including Saviour and Satan,
  3457. p. 340, line 18Life of the great round world, the sun and stars, and of man, I, the general soul,
  3458. p. 340, line 21OF him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead,
  3459. p. 340, line 22And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place,
  3460. p. 340, line 23And I dream'd I wander'd searching among burial-places to find him,
  3461. p. 340, line 24And I found that every place was a burial-place;
  3462. p. 341, line 1And fuller, O vastly fuller of the dead than of the living;
  3463. p. 341, line 2And what I dream'd I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
  3464. p. 341, line 3And I stand henceforth bound to what I dream'd,
  3465. p. 341, line 4And now I am willing to disregard burial-places and dispense with them,
  3466. p. 341, line 5And if the memorials of the dead were put up indifferently everywhere, even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
  3467. p. 341, line 6And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my own corpse, be duly render'd to powder and pour'd in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
  3468. p. 341, line 9Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling at my ankles,
  3469. p. 341, line 24As I lean and look through the glimmering light, that one has utterly disappear'd,
  3470. p. 341, line 25And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me.
  3471. p. 342, line 2I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
  3472. p. 342, line 3I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world,
  3473. p. 342, line 4I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
  3474. p. 342, line 5I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play their swift sports through the air on purpose, and that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as they, and more than they,
  3475. p. 342, line 6I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on millions of years,
  3476. p. 342, line 7I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice,
  3477. p. 342, line 8I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men are provided for, and that the deaths of young women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
  3478. p. 342, line 9(Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death, the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?)
  3479. p. 342, line 12I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.
  3480. p. 342, line 14Your schemes, politics, fail, lines give way, substances mock and elude me,
  3481. p. 342, line 15Only the theme I sing, the great and strong-possess'd soul, eludes not,
  3482. p. 343, line 2But now the chorus I hear and am elated,
  3483. p. 343, line 3A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with glad notes of daybreak I hear,
  3484. p. 343, line 5A transparent base shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
  3485. p. 343, line 6The triumphant tutti, the funeral wailings with sweet flutes and violins, all these I fill myself with,
  3486. p. 343, line 8I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion;
  3487. p. 343, line 11Or coming in, to avoid the bars and follow the channel a perfect pilot needs?
  3488. p. 343, line 13Whom, in a little boat, putting off and rowing, I hailing you offer.
  3489. p. 343, line 19And you O my soul where you stand,
  3490. p. 344, line 2O the burials of me past and present,
  3491. p. 344, line 5O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at where I cast them,
  3492. p. 344, line 6To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind.
  3493. p. 344, line 9I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
  3494. p. 344, line 11I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,
  3495. p. 344, line 17Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,
  3496. p. 344, line 25I walk by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
  3497. p. 345, line 1Now I absorb immortality and peace,
  3498. p. 345, line 2I admire death and test propositions.
  3499. p. 345, line 4The same old man and soul—the same old aspirations, and the same content.
  3500. p. 345, line 7Now while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me I will measure myself by them,
  3501. p. 345, line 8And now touch'd with the lives of other globes arrived as far along as those of the earth,
  3502. p. 345, line 16Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
  3503. p. 345, line 17Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,
  3504. p. 345, line 18Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic going down,
  3505. p. 345, line 20A huge sob—a few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—and then the women gone,
  3506. p. 345, line 21Sinking there while the passionless wet flows on—and I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
  3507. p. 345, line 22Are souls drown'd and destroy'd so?
  3508. p. 346, line 13I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;
  3509. p. 346, line 14(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
  3510. p. 346, line 15PENSIVE and faltering,
  3511. p. 346, line 19And I the apparition, I the spectre.)
  3512. p. 347, line 2I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
  3513. p. 347, line 3I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
  3514. p. 347, line 6Belief I sing, and preparation;
  3515. p. 347, line 7As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
  3516. p. 347, line 21And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
  3517. p. 347, line 23And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother,
  3518. p. 347, line 24Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
  3519. p. 348, line 7And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
  3520. p. 348, line 22Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou carriest great companions,
  3521. p. 348, line 24And royal feudal Europe sails with thee.
  3522. p. 349, line 2Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,
  3523. p. 349, line 4Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength and life,
  3524. p. 349, line 15I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
  3525. p. 349, line 22Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
  3526. p. 350, line 1Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest material civilization must remain in vain,)
  3527. p. 350, line 5But far more in these leaves and chants, thy chants, great Mother!)
  3528. p. 350, line 9Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
  3529. p. 350, line 24The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war shall cover thee all over,
  3530. p. 350, line 25(Wert capable of war, its tug and trials? be capable of peace, its trials,
  3531. p. 350, line 26For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous peace, not war;)
  3532. p. 351, line 4But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
  3533. p. 351, line 5Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
  3534. p. 351, line 6They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
  3535. p. 351, line 9Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the body and the mind,
  3536. p. 351, line 15By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
  3537. p. 351, line 19The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
  3538. p. 351, line 22The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
  3539. p. 351, line 26Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water, the green-back'd spotted mossbonkers.
  3540. p. 352, line 3The sibilant near sea with vistas far and foam,
  3541. p. 352, line 4And tawny streaks and shades and spreading blue;
  3542. p. 352, line 12Though answering not in words, the skies, trees, hear his voice—and thou O sun,
  3543. p. 352, line 13As for thy throes, thy perturbations, sudden breaks and shafts of flame gigantic,
  3544. p. 352, line 15Thou that with fructifying heat and light,
  3545. p. 352, line 16O'er myriad farms, o'er lands and waters North and South,
  3546. p. 352, line 20Thou that to grapes and weeds and little wild flowers givest so liberally,
  3547. p. 352, line 21Shed, shed thyself on mine and me, with but a fleeting ray out of thy million millions,
  3548. p. 352, line 23Nor only launch thy subtle dazzle and thy strength for these,
  3549. p. 353, line 4The face of the singing of music, the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges broad at the back-top,
  3550. p. 353, line 5The faces of hunters and fishers bulged at the brows, the shaved blanch'd faces of orthodox citizens,
  3551. p. 353, line 11The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated face,
  3552. p. 353, line 13A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
  3553. p. 353, line 14Sauntering the pavement thus, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces,
  3554. p. 353, line 15I see them and complain not, and am content with all.
  3555. p. 353, line 23Its sleepy and wabbling icebergs crunch as they go.
  3556. p. 353, line 25And more of the drug-shelf, laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's-lard,
  3557. p. 354, line 4The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground, while he speculates well.
  3558. p. 354, line 5This face is bitten by vermin and worms,
  3559. p. 354, line 6And this is some murderer's knife with a half-pull'd scabbard.
  3560. p. 354, line 9Features of my equals would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
  3561. p. 354, line 12I see 'neath the rims of your haggard and mean disguises.
  3562. p. 354, line 13Splay and twist as you like, poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats,
  3563. p. 354, line 15I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
  3564. p. 354, line 16And I knew for my consolation what they knew not,
  3565. p. 354, line 17I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
  3566. p. 354, line 19And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
  3567. p. 354, line 20And I shall meet the real landlord perfect and unharm'd, every inch as good as myself.
  3568. p. 354, line 21The Lord advances, and yet advances,
  3569. p. 354, line 23Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,
  3570. p. 355, line 2This is the face commanding and bearded, it asks no odds of the rest,
  3571. p. 355, line 10Tall and sufficient stand behind and make signs to me,
  3572. p. 355, line 11I read the promise and patiently wait.
  3573. p. 355, line 17Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders.
  3574. p. 355, line 20Lull'd and late is the smoke of the First-day morning,
  3575. p. 355, line 22It hangs thin by the sassafras and wild-cherry and cat-brier under them.
  3576. p. 355, line 25Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
  3577. p. 355, line 27She looks out from her quaker cap, her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
  3578. p. 356, line 2Her grandsons raised the flax, and her grand-daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
  3579. p. 356, line 4The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go and does not wish to go,
  3580. p. 356, line 18Blow trumpeter free and clear, I follow thee,
  3581. p. 356, line 23I scent the grass, the moist air and the roses;
  3582. p. 356, line 25Floating and basking upon heaven's lake.
  3583. p. 356, line 26Blow again trumpeter! and for my sensuous eyes,
  3584. p. 357, line 2Ladies and cavaliers long dead, barons are in their castle halls, the troubadours are singing,
  3585. p. 357, line 5I hear the shouts, the sounds of blows and smiting steel;
  3586. p. 357, line 8Blow again trumpeter! and for thy theme,
  3587. p. 357, line 9Take now the enclosing theme of all, the solvent and the setting,
  3588. p. 357, line 10Love, that is pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang,
  3589. p. 357, line 11The heart of man and woman all for love,
  3590. p. 357, line 14I see the vast alembic ever working, I see and know the flames that heat the world,
  3591. p. 357, line 16So blissful happy some, and some so silent, dark, and nigh to death;
  3592. p. 357, line 17Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,
  3593. p. 357, line 18Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,
  3594. p. 357, line 27I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the terrible tableaus.
  3595. p. 358, line 3And now thy sullen notes send darkness through me,
  3596. p. 358, line 6I feel the measureless shame and humiliation of my race, it becomes all mine,
  3597. p. 358, line 7Mine too the revenges of humanity, the wrongs of ages, baffled feuds and hatreds,
  3598. p. 358, line 13Sing to my soul, renew its languishing faith and hope,
  3599. p. 358, line 15Give me for once its prophecy and joy.
  3600. p. 358, line 21Women and men in wisdom innocence and health—all joy!
  3601. p. 358, line 30Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,
  3602. p. 359, line 1Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,
  3603. p. 359, line 2Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides,
  3604. p. 359, line 3Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar, now tapering in the distance,
  3605. p. 359, line 6The dense and murky clouds out-belching from thy smoke-stack,
  3606. p. 359, line 7Thy knitted frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels,
  3607. p. 359, line 10Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent,
  3608. p. 359, line 11For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee,
  3609. p. 359, line 12With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow,
  3610. p. 359, line 20Thy trills of shrieks by rocks and hills return'd,
  3611. p. 359, line 22To the free skies unpent and glad and strong.
  3612. p. 359, line 24O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! good and evil! O all dear to me!
  3613. p. 359, line 25O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers,
  3614. p. 359, line 27Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine,
  3615. p. 360, line 3I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi;
  3616. p. 360, line 5I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto,
  3617. p. 360, line 6I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland;
  3618. p. 360, line 9The range afar, the richness and barrenness, the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss,
  3619. p. 360, line 10The piney odor and the gloom, the awful natural stillness, (here in these dense swamps the freebooter carries his gun, and the fugitive has his conceal'd hut;)
  3620. p. 360, line 11O the strange fascination of these half-known half-impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resounding with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake,
  3621. p. 360, line 15O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs, I can stand them not, I will depart;
  3622. p. 360, line 17O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee and never wander more.
  3623. p. 360, line 18I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
  3624. p. 361, line 3Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,
  3625. p. 361, line 5Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
  3626. p. 361, line 8The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business, the houses of business of the ship-merchants and money-brokers, the river-streets,
  3627. p. 361, line 11The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft,
  3628. p. 361, line 14Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows,
  3629. p. 361, line 15A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
  3630. p. 361, line 16City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
  3631. p. 361, line 21Discovering to-day there is no lie or form of lie, and can be none, but grows as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
  3632. p. 361, line 23(This is curious and may not be realized immediately, but it must be realized,
  3633. p. 361, line 25And that the universe does.)
  3634. p. 362, line 2Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man? or in the meat and blood?
  3635. p. 362, line 3Meditating among liars and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
  3636. p. 362, line 4And that nothing fails its perfect return, and that what are called lies are perfect returns,
  3637. p. 362, line 5And that each thing exactly represents itself and what has preceded it,
  3638. p. 362, line 6And that the truth includes all, and is compact just as much as space is compact,
  3639. p. 362, line 7And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception;
  3640. p. 362, line 8And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am,
  3641. p. 362, line 9And sing and laugh and deny nothing.
  3642. p. 362, line 10THAT which eludes this verse and any verse,
  3643. p. 362, line 13And yet the pulse of every heart and life throughout the world incessantly,
  3644. p. 362, line 14Which you and I and all pursuing ever ever miss,
  3645. p. 362, line 20Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.
  3646. p. 362, line 22Behind the mountain and the wood,
  3647. p. 362, line 24It and its radiations constantly glide.
  3648. p. 363, line 2How many ships have sail'd and sunk for it!
  3649. p. 363, line 3How many travelers started from their homes and ne'er return'd!
  3650. p. 363, line 4How much of genius boldly staked and lost for it!
  3651. p. 363, line 6How all superbest deeds since Time began are traceable to it—and shall be to the end!
  3652. p. 363, line 9How the bright fascinating lambent flames of it, in every age and land, have drawn men's eyes,
  3653. p. 363, line 10Rich as a sunset on the Norway coast, the sky, the islands, and the cliffs,
  3654. p. 363, line 12Haply God's riddle it, so vague and yet so certain,
  3655. p. 363, line 13The soul for it, and all the visible universe for it,
  3656. p. 363, line 14And heaven at last for it.
  3657. p. 363, line 16And who has been just? for I would be the most just person of the earth,
  3658. p. 363, line 17And who most cautious? for I would be more cautious,
  3659. p. 363, line 18And who has been happiest? O I think it is I—I think no one was ever happier than I,
  3660. p. 363, line 19And who has lavish'd all? for I lavish constantly the best I have,
  3661. p. 363, line 20And who proudest? for I think I have reason to be the proudest son alive—for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city,
  3662. p. 363, line 21And who has been bold and true? for I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe,
  3663. p. 363, line 22And who benevolent? for I would show more benevolence than all the rest,
  3664. p. 363, line 23And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? for I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends,
  3665. p. 363, line 24And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? for I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine,
  3666. p. 363, line 25And who thinks the amplest thoughts? for I would surround those thoughts,
  3667. p. 363, line 26And who has made hymns fit for the earth? for I am mad with devouring ecstasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth.
  3668. p. 364, line 1AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats,
  3669. p. 364, line 4You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites,
  3670. p. 364, line 6You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses,
  3671. p. 364, line 13Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!)
  3672. p. 364, line 15Of the frivolous Judge—of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—of such as these standing helpless and exposed,
  3673. p. 364, line 16Of the mumbling and screaming priest, (soon, soon deserted,)
  3674. p. 364, line 17Of the lessening year by year of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
  3675. p. 364, line 18Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader of the intuitions of men and women, and of Self-esteem and Personality;
  3676. p. 364, line 22Of the envelopment of all by them, and the effusion of all from them.
  3677. p. 364, line 24They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
  3678. p. 364, line 25They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
  3679. p. 365, line 2They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear,
  3680. p. 365, line 3They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city,
  3681. p. 365, line 4They shall train themselves to go in public to become orators and oratresses,
  3682. p. 365, line 5Strong and sweet shall their tongues be, poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives, they shall be makers and finders,
  3683. p. 365, line 6Of them and of their works shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
  3684. p. 365, line 10Weave yet a soldier strong and full for great campaigns to come,
  3685. p. 365, line 12Weave lasting sure, weave day and night the weft, the warp, incessant weave, tire not,
  3686. p. 365, line 14But know the work, the need goes on and shall go on, the death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on,)
  3687. p. 365, line 18Out of the feudal wrecks and heap'd-up skeletons of kings,
  3688. p. 366, line 9Again the freshness and the odors, again Virginia's summer sky, pellucid blue and silver,
  3689. p. 366, line 11Again the deathless grass, so noiseless soft and green,
  3690. p. 366, line 25The fall of Custer and all his officers and men.
  3691. p. 367, line 3From unsuspected parts a fierce and momentary proof,
  3692. p. 367, line 11Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious,
  3693. p. 367, line 19Of scenes of Nature, fields and mountains,
  3694. p. 367, line 20Of skies so beauteous after a storm, and at night the moon so unearthly bright,
  3695. p. 367, line 21Shining sweetly, shining down, where we dig the trenches and gather the heaps,
  3696. p. 367, line 23Long have they pass'd, faces and trenches and fields,
  3697. p. 367, line 28Long yet your road, fateful flag—long yet your road, and lined with bloody death,
  3698. p. 368, line 2All its ships and shores I see interwoven with your threads greedy banner;
  3699. p. 368, line 4O hasten flag of man—O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
  3700. p. 368, line 19These tumbled rock-piles grim and red,
  3701. p. 368, line 26To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
  3702. p. 368, line 27The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace—column and polish'd arch forgot?
  3703. p. 369, line 6Longer campaigns and crises, labors beyond all others,)
  3704. p. 369, line 9The approved growth of cities and the spread of inventions.
  3705. p. 369, line 11The vast factories with their foremen and workmen,
  3706. p. 369, line 12And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
  3707. p. 369, line 15Like a grand procession to music of distant bugles pouring, triumphantly moving, and grander heaving in sight,
  3708. p. 369, line 19Libertad and the divine average, freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
  3709. p. 369, line 20The rapt promises and luminè of seers, the spiritual world, these centuries-lasting songs,
  3710. p. 369, line 21And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
  3711. p. 369, line 25Night, sleep, death and the stars.
  3712. p. 370, line 7Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?—and yet it is enough, O soul;
  3713. p. 370, line 12I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races,
  3714. p. 370, line 15I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other,
  3715. p. 370, line 18I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions,
  3716. p. 370, line 19I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken,
  3717. p. 371, line 1Lo, how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no rest!
  3718. p. 371, line 2His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes,
  3719. p. 371, line 4With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands;
  3720. p. 371, line 9No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights;
  3721. p. 371, line 12This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years!
  3722. p. 371, line 14The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me,
  3723. p. 371, line 19And again the advance of the armies.
  3724. p. 371, line 20Noiseless as mists and vapors,
  3725. p. 371, line 22From cemeteries all through Virginia and Tennessee,
  3726. p. 371, line 25And silently gather round me.
  3727. p. 372, line 1With sabres drawn and glistening, and carbines by their thighs, (ah my brave horsemen!
  3728. p. 372, line 2My handsome tan-faced horsemen! what life, what joy and pride,
  3729. p. 372, line 7But aside from these and the marts of wealth and the crowded promenade,
  3730. p. 372, line 8Admitting around me comrades close unseen by the rest and voiceless,
  3731. p. 372, line 9The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive,
  3732. p. 372, line 18Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone,
  3733. p. 372, line 19But love is not over—and what love, O comrades!
  3734. p. 372, line 25Make these ashes to nourish and blossom,
  3735. p. 373, line 2How they pass and have pass'd through convuls'd pains, as through parturitions,
  3736. p. 373, line 5How many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity,
  3737. p. 373, line 7(But I see the athletes, and I see the results of the war glorious and inevitable, and they again leading to other results.)
  3738. p. 373, line 9How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, the sounding and resounding, keep on and on,
  3739. p. 373, line 10How society waits unform'd, and is for a while between things ended and things begun,
  3740. p. 373, line 11How America is the continent of glories, and of the triumph of freedom and of the Democracies, and of the fruits of society, and of all that is begun,
  3741. p. 373, line 12And how the States are complete in themselves—and how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
  3742. p. 373, line 13And how these of mine and of the States will in their turn be convuls'd, and serve other parturitions and transitions,
  3743. p. 373, line 14And how all people, sights, combinations, the democratic masses too, serve—and how every fact, and war itself, with all its horrors, serves,
  3744. p. 373, line 15And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death.
  3745. p. 373, line 17Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,
  3746. p. 373, line 18Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be,
  3747. p. 373, line 19Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest,
  3748. p. 374, line 1Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are,
  3749. p. 374, line 6Of mighty inland cities yet unsurvey'd and unsuspected,
  3750. p. 374, line 7Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of inalienable homesteads,
  3751. p. 374, line 8Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood,
  3752. p. 374, line 9Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,
  3753. p. 374, line 12Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
  3754. p. 374, line 13(O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
  3755. p. 374, line 14SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,
  3756. p. 374, line 17You earth and life till the last ray gleams I sing.
  3757. p. 374, line 29In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals,
  3758. p. 375, line 3In the strength and flush of manhood,
  3759. p. 375, line 4In the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age,
  3760. p. 375, line 8The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood!
  3761. p. 375, line 14To have gone forth among other Gods, these men and women I love.
  3762. p. 375, line 15Wonderful how I celebrate you and myself!
  3763. p. 375, line 18How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
  3764. p. 375, line 19How the water sports and sings! (surely it is alive!)
  3765. p. 375, line 20How the trees rise and stand up, with strong trunks, with branches and leaves!
  3766. p. 375, line 24O strain musical flowing through ages and continents, now reaching me and America!
  3767. p. 375, line 25I take your strong chords, intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
  3768. p. 375, line 27I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth and of all the growths of the earth,
  3769. p. 376, line 1As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach of the Western Sea,
  3770. p. 376, line 4Wherever I have been I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.
  3771. p. 376, line 10And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
  3772. p. 376, line 16To her, buried and gone, yet buried not, gone not from me,
  3773. p. 376, line 17(I see again the calm benignant face fresh and beautiful still,
  3774. p. 376, line 19I kiss and kiss convulsively again the sweet old lips, the cheeks, the closed eyes in the coffin;)
  3775. p. 376, line 22And set a tombstone here.
  3776. p. 376, line 25Devises houses and lands to his children, bequeaths stocks, goods, funds for a school or hospital,
  3777. p. 376, line 26Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold.
  3778. p. 377, line 3Yet certain remembrances of the war for you, and after you,
  3779. p. 377, line 4And little souvenirs of camps and soldiers, with my love,
  3780. p. 377, line 5I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs.
  3781. p. 377, line 11And you streams absorb them well, taking their dear blood,
  3782. p. 377, line 12And you local spots, and you airs that swim above lightly impalpable,
  3783. p. 377, line 13And all you essences of soil and growth, and you my rivers' depths,
  3784. p. 377, line 14And you mountain sides, and the woods where my dear children's blood trickling redden'd,
  3785. p. 377, line 15And you trees down in your roots to bequeath to all future trees,
  3786. p. 377, line 16My dead absorb or South or North—my young men's bodies absorb, and their precious precious blood,
  3787. p. 377, line 18In unseen essence and odor of surface and grass, centuries hence,
  3788. p. 377, line 21O years and graves! O air and soil! O my dead, an aroma sweet!
  3789. p. 377, line 25Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night,
  3790. p. 377, line 26Some of us so fatigued carrying the gun and knapsack, dropping asleep in our tracks,
  3791. p. 377, line 27Others pitching the little tents, and the fires lit up begin to sparkle,
  3792. p. 378, line 2And a word provided for countersign, careful for safety,
  3793. p. 378, line 4We rise up refresh'd, the night and sleep pass'd over, and resume our journey,
  3794. p. 378, line 7Which the days of peace keep filling, and the days of war keep filling,
  3795. p. 378, line 9Till night and sleep pass over?)
  3796. p. 378, line 11In the parents, children, husbands, wives, in them, in the old and young,
  3797. p. 378, line 12Sleeping under the sunlight, sleeping under the moonlight, content and silent there at last,
  3798. p. 378, line 13Behold the mighty bivouac-field and waiting-camp of all,
  3799. p. 378, line 14Of the corps and generals all, and the President over the corps and generals all,
  3800. p. 378, line 15And of each of us O soldiers, and of each and all in the ranks we fought,
  3801. p. 378, line 24The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding, passing,
  3802. p. 379, line 6Of many an aspiration fond, of many a dream and plan;
  3803. p. 379, line 7Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing eternal identity,
  3804. p. 379, line 9To the sense of Death, and accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life,
  3805. p. 379, line 12To put rapport the mountains and rocks and streams,
  3806. p. 379, line 13And the winds of the north, and the forests of oak and pine,
  3807. p. 379, line 22THE untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
  3808. p. 379, line 23Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
  3809. p. 379, line 24WHAT are those of the known but to ascend and enter the Unknown?
  3810. p. 379, line 25And what are those of life but for Death?
  3811. p. 380, line 2Now land and life finalè and farewell,
  3812. p. 380, line 6Duly again to port and hawser's tie returning;
  3813. p. 380, line 9To port and hawser's tie no more returning,
  3814. p. 380, line 13I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.
  3815. p. 380, line 16When the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
  3816. p. 380, line 18Then to me and mine our due fruition.
  3817. p. 380, line 20I have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
  3818. p. 380, line 21And the songs of birth, and shown that there are many births.
  3819. p. 380, line 24And take the young woman's hand and the young man's hand for the last time.
  3820. p. 380, line 27I announce uncompromising liberty and equality,
  3821. p. 380, line 28I announce the justification of candor and the justification of pride.
  3822. p. 381, line 2I announce the Union more and more compact, indissoluble,
  3823. p. 381, line 3I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
  3824. p. 381, line 9I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
  3825. p. 381, line 11I announce a race of splendid and savage old men.
  3826. p. 381, line 12O thicker and faster—(So long!)
  3827. p. 381, line 16Hasten throat and sound your last,
  3828. p. 381, line 24To ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving,
  3829. p. 382, line 3What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
  3830. p. 382, line 10It is I you hold and who holds you,
  3831. p. 382, line 16Enough O deed impromptu and secret,
  3832. p. 384, line 16[…] Wallabout Martyrs, 387 The First Dandelion, 387 America, 387 Memories, 387 To-day and Thee, 388 After the Dazzle of Day, 388 Abraham Lincoln, born Feb […]
  3833. p. 384, line 25[…] You Tides With Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood […]
  3834. p. 384, line 26[…] Ceaseless Swell—Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning—And Yet Not You Alone—Proudly the Flood Comes In—By […]
  3835. p. 384, line 52[…] Thought of All, 398 Thanks in Old Age, 398 Life and Death, 398 The Voice of the Rain, 399 Soon Shall the Winter's […]
  3836. p. 384, line 75[…] Lull, 403 Old Age's Lambent Peaks, 404 After the Supper and Talk […]
  3837. p. 385, line 1My city's fit and noble name resumed,
  3838. p. 385, line 4Sea-beauty! stretch'd and basking!
  3839. p. 385, line 6And one the Atlantic's wind caressing, fierce or gentle—mighty hulls dark-gliding in the distance.
  3840. p. 385, line 7Isle of sweet brooks of drinking-water—healthy air and soil!
  3841. p. 385, line 8Isle of the salty shore and breeze and brine!
  3842. p. 385, line 10Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)
  3843. p. 385, line 12The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge and urge of waves,
  3844. p. 385, line 17To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I'd rear a laurel-cover'd monument,
  3845. p. 386, line 2My lines in joy and hope continuing on the same,
  3846. p. 386, line 5Your aggregate retain'd entire—Of north, south, east and west, your items all;
  3847. p. 386, line 7The body wreck'd, old, poor and paralyzed—the strange inertia falling pall-like round me,
  3848. p. 386, line 11But the bravest press'd to the front and fell, unnamed, unknown.
  3849. p. 386, line 15These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,
  3850. p. 386, line 16Or sooth'd to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,
  3851. p. 386, line 18As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
  3852. p. 386, line 23Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays, speculations?
  3853. p. 387, line 3Strength, weakness, blindness, more paralysis and heavier?
  3854. p. 387, line 4Or placid skies and sun? Wilt stir the waters yet?
  3855. p. 387, line 6Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching?
  3856. p. 387, line 9Those cart loads of old charnel ashes, scales and splints of mouldy bones,
  3857. p. 387, line 11The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, America.
  3858. p. 387, line 12Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
  3859. p. 387, line 19Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
  3860. p. 388, line 2The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome;
  3861. p. 388, line 5Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!
  3862. p. 388, line 11To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought,
  3863. p. 388, line 14Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green;
  3864. p. 388, line 20But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,
  3865. p. 388, line 23As the days take on a mellower light, and the apple at last hangs really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
  3866. p. 388, line 25The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
  3867. p. 389, line 7Looms in the mist, with brow elate and governing hand.
  3868. p. 389, line 9To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
  3869. p. 389, line 10Homer with all his wars and warriors—Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
  3870. p. 389, line 16And leave its odor there.
  3871. p. 389, line 19Rapport of sun, moon, earth, and all the constellations,
  3872. p. 389, line 21What central heart—and you the pulse—vivifies all? what boundless aggregate of all?
  3873. p. 389, line 22What subtle indirection and significance in you? what clue to all in you? what fluid, vast identity,
  3874. p. 390, line 1Last of ebb, and daylight waning,
  3875. p. 390, line 2Scented sea-cool landward making, smells of sedge and salt incoming,
  3876. p. 390, line 4Many a muffled confession—many a sob and whisper'd word,
  3877. p. 390, line 6How they sweep down and out! how they mutter!
  3878. p. 390, line 9Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.
  3879. p. 390, line 11On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide!
  3880. p. 390, line 13And yet not you alone, twilight and burying ebb,
  3881. p. 390, line 16Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning,
  3882. p. 390, line 23Mainsails, topsails, jibs, appear in the offing—steamers' pennants of smoke—and under the forenoon sun,
  3883. p. 391, line 2The long past war, the battles, hospital sights, the wounded and the dead,
  3884. p. 391, line 4My three-score years of life summ'd up, and more, and past,
  3885. p. 391, line 6And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part of wave,
  3886. p. 391, line 10Only by law of you, your swell and ebb, enclosing me the same,
  3887. p. 391, line 12If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
  3888. p. 391, line 14Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
  3889. p. 391, line 18The stretch of North and South arous'd—sea-board and inland—Texas to Maine—the Prairie States—Vermont, Virginia, California,
  3890. p. 391, line 19The final ballot-shower from East to West—the paradox and conflict,
  3891. p. 391, line 23—Foams and ferments the wine? it serves to purify—while the heart pants, life glows:
  3892. p. 391, line 24These stormy gusts and winds waft precious ships,
  3893. p. 392, line 2Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore,
  3894. p. 392, line 4(I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,)
  3895. p. 392, line 7Thy brooding scowl and murk—thy unloos'd hurricanes,
  3896. p. 392, line 11Thy lonely state—something thou ever seek'st and seek'st, yet never gain'st,
  3897. p. 392, line 13Some vast heart, like a planet's, chain'd and chafing in those breakers,
  3898. p. 392, line 14By lengthen'd swell, and spasm, and panting breath,
  3899. p. 392, line 15And rhythmic rasping of thy sands and waves,
  3900. p. 392, line 16And serpent hiss, and savage peals of laughter,
  3901. p. 392, line 17And undertones of distant lion roar,
  3902. p. 392, line 20The first and last confession of the globe,
  3903. p. 392, line 26That lurid, partial act of war and peace—of old and new contending,
  3904. p. 392, line 27Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense;
  3905. p. 392, line 28All past—and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing,
  3906. p. 392, line 29Victor's and vanquish'd—Lincoln's and Lee's—now thou with them,
  3907. p. 393, line 1Man of the mighty days—and equal to the days!
  3908. p. 393, line 2Thou from the prairies!—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part,
  3909. p. 393, line 12Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:
  3910. p. 393, line 13Far from its base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, comprehending,
  3911. p. 393, line 19The indomitable heart and arm—proofs of the never-broken line,
  3912. p. 394, line 1Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank,
  3913. p. 394, line 6For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to the last;
  3914. p. 394, line 12What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!
  3915. p. 394, line 15Thou portal—thou arena—thou of the myriad long-drawn lines and groups!
  3916. p. 394, line 17Thy windows rich, and huge hotels—thy side-walks wide;)
  3917. p. 394, line 20Thou visor'd, vast, unspeakable show and lesson!
  3918. p. 394, line 24To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt—to truly understand,
  3919. p. 394, line 25To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
  3920. p. 394, line 26Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
  3921. p. 395, line 4House on a hill, with view of bay at hand, and distant cape, and stretch to open sea;)
  3922. p. 395, line 8Watching the coming, going of the vessels, he mutters to himself—And now the close of all:
  3923. p. 395, line 9One struggling outbound brig, one day, baffled for long—cross-tides and much wrong going,
  3924. p. 395, line 11And swiftly bending round the cape, the darkness proudly entering, cleaving, as he watches,
  3925. p. 395, line 15With Spanish hat and plumes, and gait inimitable,
  3926. p. 395, line 16Back from the fading lessons of the past, I'd call, I'd tell and own,
  3927. p. 395, line 19The perfect singing voice—deepest of all to me the lesson—trial and test of all:)
  3928. p. 395, line 23Freedom's and Love's and Faith's unloos'd cantabile,
  3929. p. 396, line 5Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
  3930. p. 396, line 8The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
  3931. p. 396, line 10With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
  3932. p. 396, line 12Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night,
  3933. p. 396, line 14Yonnondio—I see, far in the west or north, a limitless ravine, with plains and mountains dark,
  3934. p. 396, line 15I see swarms of stalwart chieftains, medicine-men, and warriors,
  3935. p. 396, line 16As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight,
  3936. p. 396, line 17(Race of the woods, the landscapes free, and the falls!
  3937. p. 396, line 20To-day gives place, and fades—the cities, farms, factories fade;
  3938. p. 396, line 22Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
  3939. p. 396, line 24(Have former armies fail'd? then we send fresh armies—and fresh again;)
  3940. p. 397, line 2(Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,)
  3941. p. 397, line 7"The world, the race, the soul—in space and time the universes,
  3942. p. 397, line 12My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.
  3943. p. 397, line 14And thus upon our journey, footing the road, and more than once, and link'd together let us go.)
  3944. p. 397, line 16Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
  3945. p. 397, line 17Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
  3946. p. 398, line 8Amid the bawling presentations new and old,
  3947. p. 398, line 15For shelter, wine and meat—for sweet appreciation,
  3948. p. 398, line 17We never met, and ne'er shall meet—and yet our souls embrace, long, close and long;)
  3949. p. 398, line 21The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains of the soul:)
  3950. p. 398, line 27To ours to-day—and we pass on the same.
  3951. p. 399, line 1And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower,
  3952. p. 399, line 4Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea,
  3953. p. 399, line 5Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form'd, altogether changed, and yet the same,
  3954. p. 399, line 7And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn;
  3955. p. 399, line 8And forever, by day and night, I give back life to my own origin, and make pure and beautify it;
  3956. p. 399, line 12Soon shall these icy ligatures unbind and melt—A little while,
  3957. p. 399, line 13And air, soil, wave, suffused shall be in softness, bloom and growth—a thousand forms shall rise
  3958. p. 399, line 14From these dead clods and chills as from low burial graves.
  3959. p. 399, line 16Shall wake and fill. Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth,
  3960. p. 399, line 17Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers,
  3961. p. 399, line 18The arbutus under foot, the willow's yellow-green, the blossoming plum and cherry;
  3962. p. 399, line 19With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird;
  3963. p. 399, line 26Wreaths of roses and branches of palm.
  3964. p. 400, line 11To the sights and scenes—to forming the line of battle,
  3965. p. 400, line 19Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
  3966. p. 400, line 20Have you not learn'd great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?
  3967. p. 400, line 21Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
  3968. p. 400, line 22The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd for once to colors;
  3969. p. 401, line 2He shipp'd as green-hand boy, and sail'd away, (took some sudden, vehement notion;)
  3970. p. 401, line 3Since, twenty years and more have circled round and round,
  3971. p. 401, line 4While he the globe was circling round and round,—and now returns:
  3972. p. 401, line 10I scan the face all berry-brown and bearded—the stout-strong frame,
  3973. p. 401, line 14Proof of this present time, and thee, thy broad expanse, America,
  3974. p. 401, line 15To my plain Northern hut, in outside clouds and snow,
  3975. p. 401, line 16Brought safely for a thousand miles o'er land and tide,
  3976. p. 401, line 22A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.
  3977. p. 402, line 2And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row;
  3978. p. 402, line 3You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;)
  3979. p. 402, line 7Not meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,)
  3980. p. 402, line 10Apples and grapes—the stalwart limbs of trees emerging—the fresh, free, open air,
  3981. p. 402, line 11And love and faith, like scented roses blooming.
  3982. p. 402, line 12To-day, with bending head and eyes, thou, too, Columbia,
  3983. p. 402, line 17Rose from the hill-top, like applause and glory,
  3984. p. 403, line 3An old, dismasted, gray and batter'd ship, disabled, done,
  3985. p. 403, line 4After free voyages to all the seas of earth, haul'd up at last and hawser'd tight,
  3986. p. 403, line 8From ups and downs—with intervals—from elder years, mid-age, or youth,)
  3987. p. 403, line 13"Thou Mother with thy Equal Brood," and many, many more unspecified,
  3988. p. 403, line 14From fibre heart of mine—from throat and tongue—(My life's hot pulsing blood,
  3989. p. 403, line 15The personal urge and form for me—not merely paper, automatic type and ink,)
  3990. p. 403, line 18(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! compared indeed to that!
  3991. p. 403, line 21Unrest and pain, and feverish heat,
  3992. p. 403, line 22Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on,
  3993. p. 403, line 23Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.*
  3994. p. 404, line 4Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
  3995. p. 404, line 5The calmer sight—the golden setting, clear and broad:
  3996. p. 404, line 9After the supper and talk—after the day is done,
  3997. p. 404, line 11Good-bye and Good-bye with emotional lips repeating,
  3998. p. 404, line 13No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
  3999. p. 404, line 18Farewells, messages lessening—dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form,
  4000. p. 407, line 3[…] I not better withhold (in this old age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks […]
  4001. p. 407, line 4[…] age and paralysis of me) such little tags and fringe-dots (maybe specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey […]
  4002. p. 407, line 5[…] specks, stains,) as follow a long dusty journey, and witness it afterward? I have probably not been enough afraid […]
  4003. p. 407, line 7[…] enough afraid of careless touches, from the first—and am not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and […]
  4004. p. 407, line 8[…] not now—nor of parrot-like repetitions—nor platitudes and the commonplace. Perhaps I am too democratic for such avoidances […]
  4005. p. 407, line 10[…] originally plann'd by my theory, now sufficiently illustrated—and full time for me to silently retire?—(indeed amid no […]
  4006. p. 407, line 14[…] of well-put interrogation, here comes this little cluster, and conclusion of my preceding clusters. Though not at all clear […]
  4007. p. 407, line 1Last droplets of and after spontaneous rain,
  4008. p. 407, line 2From many limpid distillations and past showers;
  4009. p. 407, line 3(Will they germinate anything? mere exhalations as they all are—the land's and sea's—America's;
  4010. p. 407, line 4Will they filter to any deep emotion? any heart and brain?)
  4011. p. 407, line 26[…] may be, I feel like improving to-day's opportunity and wind up. During the last two years I have sent […]
  4012. p. 407, line 27[…] have sent out, in the lulls of illness and exhaustion, certain chirps—lingering-dying ones probably (undoubtedly)—which now I […]
  4013. p. 407, line 29[…] undoubtedly)—which now I may as well gather and put in fair type while able to see correctly—(for […]
  4014. p. 407, line 30[…] my eyes plainly warn me they are dimming, and my brain more and more palpably neglects or refuses, month after month, even slight […]
  4015. p. 407, line 33In fact, here I am these current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like […]
  4016. p. 407, line 34[…] current years 1890 and '91, (each successive fortnight getting stiffer and stuck deeper) much like some hard-cased dilapidated grim ancient shell-fish […]
  4017. p. 407, line 36[…] conch (no legs, utterly non-locomotive) cast up high and dry on the shore-sands, helpless to move anywhere—nothing left […]
  4018. p. 408, line 2[…] move anywhere—nothing left but behave myself quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there […]
  4019. p. 408, line 3[…] quiet, and while away the days yet assign'd, and discover if there is anything for the said grim and time-bang'd conch to be got at last out of inherited […]
  4020. p. 408, line 4[…] got at last out of inherited good spirits and primal buoyant centre-pulses down there deep somewhere within his gray-blurr'd […]
  4021. p. 408, line 8[…] many of the following poemets about death, &c., and for another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And […]
  4022. p. 408, line 9[…] another the passing hours (July 5, 1890) are so sunny-fine. And old as I am I feel to-day almost a part […]
  4023. p. 408, line 11[…] or kitten—probably a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have it in […]
  4024. p. 408, line 12[…] a streak of physical adjustment and perfection here and now. I believe I have it in me perennially anyhow […]
  4025. p. 408, line 17[…] the end) that this late-years palsied old shorn and shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth […]
  4026. p. 408, line 18[…] shell-fish condition of me is the indubitable outcome and growth, now near for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued […]
  4027. p. 408, line 19[…] for 20 years along, of too overzealous, over-continued bodily and emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on […]
  4028. p. 408, line 20[…] emotional excitement and action through the times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in […]
  4029. p. 408, line 21[…] times of 1862, '3,'4 and '5, visiting and waiting on wounded and sick army volunteers, both sides, in campaigns or contests, or […]
  4030. p. 408, line 23[…] south of Washington City, or in that place and elsewhere—those hot, sad, wrenching times—the army volunteers, all […]
  4031. p. 409, line 2Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth,
  4032. p. 409, line 5But outset and sure entrance to the truest, best, maturest;)
  4033. p. 409, line 10AND whence and why come you?
  4034. p. 409, line 13That we linger'd and lagg'd—but were wafted at last, and are now here,
  4035. p. 409, line 17Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning,
  4036. p. 409, line 31[…] the best, which involve vitality at its full, and balance, and perfect control and scope. But they are valuable beyond measure to confirm and […]
  4037. p. 409, line 32[…] But they are valuable beyond measure to confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the […]
  4038. p. 409, line 33[…] confirm and endorse the varied train, facts, theories and faith of the whole preceding life […]
  4039. p. 410, line 2My life and recitative, containing birth, youth, mid-age years,
  4040. p. 410, line 3Fitful as motley-tongues of flame, inseparably twined and merged in one—combining all,
  4041. p. 410, line 8A gladsome pealing cry—a song for once of utmost pride and satisfaction;
  4042. p. 410, line 9I chant from it the common bulk, the general average horde, (the best no sooner than the worst)—And now I chant old age,
  4043. p. 410, line 10(My verses, written first for forenoon life, and for the summer's, autumn's spread,
  4044. p. 410, line 11I pass to snow-white hairs the same, and give to pulses winter-cool'd the same;)
  4045. p. 410, line 12As here in careless trill, I and my recitatives, with faith and love,
  4046. p. 410, line 15AFTER surmounting three-score and ten,
  4047. p. 410, line 17My parents' deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of '63 and '4,
  4048. p. 410, line 22(Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul,
  4049. p. 411, line 3With pink, blue, yellow, all blanch'd, and the white now gray and ashy,
  4050. p. 411, line 8For but last night I woke, and in that spectral ring saw thee,
  4051. p. 411, line 12THE soothing sanity and blitheness of completion,
  4052. p. 411, line 13The pomp and hurried contest-glare and rush are done;
  4053. p. 411, line 30ANOTHER NOTE.—" He went out with the tide and the sunset," was a phrase I heard from a surgeon […]
  4054. p. 411, line 33During the Secession War, 1863 and '4, visiting the Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit […]
  4055. p. 411, line 34[…] Army Hospitals around Washington, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood […]
  4056. p. 411, line 38[…] palpable. The badly wounded would get some ease, and would like to talk a little, or be talk'd to. Intellectual and emotional natures would be at their best: Deaths were always […]
  4057. p. 411, line 40[…] seem'd to have better effect when given then, and a lulling atmosphere would pervade the wards […]
  4058. p. 411, line 42Similar influences, similar circumstances and hours, day-close, after great battles, even with all their horrors […]
  4059. p. 412, line 1FROM east and west across the horizon's edge,
  4060. p. 412, line 4(Our joys of strife and derring-do to the last!)
  4061. p. 412, line 6Crowd top-sail, top-gallant and royal studding-sails,
  4062. p. 412, line 7Out challenge and defiance—flags and flaunting pennants added,
  4063. p. 412, line 9HAVE I no weapon-word for thee—some message brief and fierce?
  4064. p. 412, line 10(Have I fought out and done indeed the battle?) Is there no shot left,
  4065. p. 412, line 14Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter;
  4066. p. 412, line 19In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life,
  4067. p. 412, line 23Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought,
  4068. p. 412, line 25Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations,
  4069. p. 413, line 2With all the rest, visible, concrete, temples, towers, goods, machines and ores,
  4070. p. 413, line 4(We grand-sons and great-grand-sons do not forget your grandsires,)
  4071. p. 413, line 5From fifty Nations and nebulous Nations, compacted, sent oversea to-day,
  4072. p. 413, line 6America's applause, love, memories and good-will.
  4073. p. 413, line 7OVER and through the burial chant,
  4074. p. 413, line 8Organ and solemn service, sermon, bending priests,
  4075. p. 413, line 9To me come interpolation sounds not in the show—plainly to me, crowding up the aisle and from the window,
  4076. p. 413, line 10Of sudden battle's hurry and harsh noises—war's grim game to sight and ear in earnest;
  4077. p. 413, line 11The scout call'd up and forward—the general mounted and his aids around him—the new-brought word—the instantaneous order issued;
  4078. p. 413, line 35[…] firmament as marking the last life-throbs of secession, and beaming on its dying gasps, Sheridan's will be bright. One […]
  4079. p. 413, line 38[…] these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most conclusive military talents ever evinced by any […]
  4080. p. 413, line 40[…] nation on earth. That they possess'd a rank and file ahead of all other known in points of quality […]
  4081. p. 413, line 41[…] of all other known in points of quality and limitlessness of number are easily admitted. But we have, too […]
  4082. p. 413, line 42[…] we have, too, the eligibility of organizing, handling and officering equal to the other. These two, with modern arms […]
  4083. p. 413, line 43[…] the other. These two, with modern arms, transportation, and inventive American genius, would make the United States, with earnestness […]
  4084. p. 414, line 5Thou, nestling, folding close and firm yet soft, companion better than talk, book, art,
  4085. p. 414, line 6(Thou hast, O Nature! elements! utterance to my heart beyond the rest—and this is of them,)
  4086. p. 414, line 7So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my face and hands,
  4087. p. 414, line 8Thou, messenger-magical strange bringer to body and spirit of me,
  4088. p. 414, line 11I feel the ocean and the forest—somehow I feel the globe itself swift-swimming in space;
  4089. p. 414, line 14Minister to speak to me, here and now, what word has never told, and cannot tell,
  4090. p. 414, line 21And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet.
  4091. p. 414, line 25Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia,
  4092. p. 414, line 27The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene,
  4093. p. 415, line 11Thou! with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand and word, ascending,
  4094. p. 415, line 18Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the acceptance and the faith;)
  4095. p. 415, line 28Children's and women's tones—rhythm of many a farmer and of flail,
  4096. p. 416, line 3Of the vacant names, as unindented air's and sea's—the unreturn'd,
  4097. p. 416, line 4The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches
  4098. p. 416, line 8(Even here in my room-shadows and half-lights in the noiseless flickering flames,
  4099. p. 416, line 12Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes,
  4100. p. 416, line 17Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;
  4101. p. 416, line 18But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unreconciled, Nay, he is mine alone;
  4102. p. 416, line 19—Then the full-grown poet stood between the two, and took each by the hand;
  4103. p. 416, line 20And to-day and ever so stands, as blender, uniter, tightly holding hands,
  4104. p. 416, line 22And wholly and joyously blends them.
  4105. p. 417, line 3Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist,
  4106. p. 417, line 5Painted half his face and neck, his wrists, and back-hands.
  4107. p. 417, line 7Rose again, half sitting, smiled, gave in silence his extended hand to each and all,
  4108. p. 417, line 9Fix'd his look on wife and little children—the last:
  4109. p. 417, line 10(And here a line in memory of his name and death.)
  4110. p. 417, line 11A VOICE from Death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power,
  4111. p. 417, line 17Although I come and unannounc'd, in horror and in pang,
  4112. p. 417, line 18In pouring flood and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,)
  4113. p. 418, line 1The household wreck'd, the husband and the wife, the engulf'd forger in his forge,
  4114. p. 418, line 2The corpses in the whelming waters and the mud,
  4115. p. 418, line 3The gather'd thousands to their funeral mounds, and thousands never found or gather'd.
  4116. p. 418, line 10E'en as I chant, lo! out of death, and out of ooze and slime,
  4117. p. 418, line 12From West and East, from South and North and over sea,
  4118. p. 418, line 13Its hot-spurr'd hearts and hands humanity to human aid moves on;
  4119. p. 418, line 14And from within a thought and lesson yet.
  4120. p. 418, line 15Thou ever-darting Globe! through Space and Air!
  4121. p. 418, line 17Thou that in all the life and death of us, in action or in sleep!
  4122. p. 418, line 18Thou laws invisible that permeate them and all,
  4123. p. 418, line 19Thou that in all, and over all, and through and under all, incessant!
  4124. p. 418, line 26In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd.
  4125. p. 418, line 27FOR his o'erarching and last lesson the greybeard sufi,
  4126. p. 418, line 31Spoke to the young priests and students.
  4127. p. 419, line 2Allah is all, all, all—is immanent in every life and object,
  4128. p. 419, line 3May-be at many and many-a-more removes—yet Allah, Allah, Allah is there.
  4129. p. 419, line 6Would you know the dissatisfaction? the urge and spur of every life;
  4130. p. 419, line 10To return to its divine source and origin, however distant,
  4131. p. 419, line 11Latent the same in subject and in object, without one exception."
  4132. p. 419, line 17The common day and night—the common earth and waters,
  4133. p. 419, line 20The devilish and the dark, the dying and diseas'd,
  4134. p. 419, line 21The countless (nineteen-twentieths) low and evil, crude and savage,
  4135. p. 419, line 23Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the dissolute;
  4136. p. 419, line 24(What is the part the wicked and the loathesome bear within earth's orbic scheme?)
  4137. p. 419, line 25Newts, crawling things in slime and mud, poisons,
  4138. p. 419, line 26The barren soil, the evil men, the slag and hideous rot.
  4139. p. 420, line 1MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for;
  4140. p. 420, line 4Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities and the shopfronts,
  4141. p. 420, line 6And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often confab'd about it,)
  4142. p. 420, line 7People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could be,
  4143. p. 420, line 8Farms and dooryards of home, paths border'd with box, lilacs in corners,
  4144. p. 420, line 10Glum funerals, the crape-veil'd mother and the daughters,
  4145. p. 420, line 11Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box,
  4146. p. 420, line 13Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy,
  4147. p. 420, line 18But add, fuse, complete, extend—and celebrate the immortal and the good.
  4148. p. 420, line 19Haughty this song, its words and scope,
  4149. p. 420, line 20To span vast realms of space and time,
  4150. p. 420, line 21Evolution—the cumulative—growths and generations.
  4151. p. 420, line 22Begun in ripen'd youth and steadily pursued,
  4152. p. 420, line 23Wandering, peering, dallying with all—war, peace, day and night absorbing,
  4153. p. 420, line 25I end it here in sickness, poverty, and old age.
  4154. p. 420, line 27To-day shadowy Death dogs my steps, my seated shape, and has for years—
  4155. p. 421, line 4The shining clusters and the Milky Ways of stars—Nature's pulses reap'd,
  4156. p. 421, line 10(Who knows? the best yet unexpress'd and lacking.)
  4157. p. 421, line 11GRAND is the seen, the light, to me—grand are the sky and stars,
  4158. p. 421, line 12Grand is the earth, and grand are lasting time and space,
  4159. p. 421, line 13And grand their laws, so multiform, puzzling, evolutionary;
  4160. p. 421, line 15Lighting the light, the sky and stars, delving the earth, sailing the sea,
  4161. p. 421, line 20Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch,
  4162. p. 421, line 23Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting,
  4163. p. 421, line 24(On earth and in the sea—the universe—the stars there in the heavens,)
  4164. p. 421, line 26And waiting ever more, forever more behind.
  4165. p. 422, line 8Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.
  4166. p. 422, line 15May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
  4167. p. 422, line 18Good-bye—and hail! my Fancy.
  4168. p. 425, line 4[…] the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers […]
  4169. p. 425, line 11[…] in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road. After […]
  4170. p. 425, line 13[…] a varied jaunt of years, with many halts and gaps of intervals—or some lengthen'd ship-voyage, wherein more than […]
  4171. p. 425, line 15[…] than once the last hour had apparently arrived, and we seem'd certainly going down—yet reaching port in a […]
  4172. p. 425, line 21[…] will probably blend the weft of first purposes and speculations, with the warp of that experience afterwards, always bringing […]
  4173. p. 425, line 23Result of seven or eight stages and struggles extending through nearly thirty years, (as I nigh my […]
  4174. p. 425, line 26[…] now finish'd to the end of its opportunities and powers, as my definitive carte visite to the coming generations […]
  4175. p. 425, line 31[…] song, though Regnar dies")—That from a worldly and business point of view "Leaves of Grass " has been worse […]
  4176. p. 425, line 33[…] a failure—that public criticism on the book and myself as author of it yet shows mark'd anger and contempt more than anything else—("I find a solid line […]
  4177. p. 426, line 2[…] everywhere,"—letter from W. S. K., Boston, May 28,1884)—And that solely for publishing it I have been the object […]
  4178. p. 426, line 6[…] money returns, nor the approbation of existing schools and conventions. As fulfill'd, or partially fulfill'd, the best comfort of […]
  4179. p. 426, line 8[…] after a small band of the dearest friends and upholders ever vouchsafed to man or cause—doubtless all the […]
  4180. p. 426, line 10[…] man or cause—doubtless all the more faithful and uncompromising—this little phalanx!—for being so few) is that […]
  4181. p. 426, line 11[…] phalanx!—for being so few) is that, unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I […]
  4182. p. 426, line 12[…] have had my say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record—the value thereof to be […]
  4183. p. 426, line 14In calculating that decision, William O'Connor and Dr. Bucke are far more peremptory than I am. Behind […]
  4184. p. 426, line 15[…] can be said, I consider "Leaves of Grass" and its theory experimental—as, in the deepest sense, I consider […]
  4185. p. 426, line 20[…] volume is a sortie—whether to prove triumphant, and conquer its field of aim and escape and construction, nothing less than a hundred years from now can […]
  4186. p. 426, line 23[…] to far more than make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was from the […]
  4187. p. 426, line 24[…] make up for any and all other lacks and withholdings. Essentially, that was from the first, and has remain'd throughout, the main object. Now it seems to […]
  4188. p. 426, line 27[…] otherwise momentous drawbacks, as of little account. Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they were […]
  4189. p. 426, line 29[…] my intentions, I feel that they were creditable—and I accept the result, whatever it may be […]
  4190. p. 426, line 30After continued personal ambition and effort, as a young fellow, to enter with the rest […]
  4191. p. 426, line 33[…] the great mèlée, both for victory's prize itself and to do some good—After years of those aims and […]
  4192. p. 426, line 34[…] do some good—After years of those aims and pursuits, I found myself remaining possess'd, at the age of […]
  4193. p. 426, line 35[…] of thirty-one to thirty-three, with a special desire and conviction. Or rather, to be quite exact, a desire that […]
  4194. p. 426, line 39[…] had steadily advanced to the front, defined itself, and finally dominated everything else. This was a feeling or ambition […]
  4195. p. 426, line 40[…] This was a feeling or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my […]
  4196. p. 426, line 41[…] and faithfully express in literary or poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality […]
  4197. p. 426, line 42[…] and uncompromisingly, my own physical, emotional, moral, intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous […]
  4198. p. 426, line 43[…] intellectual, and æsthetic Personality, in the midst of, and tallying, the momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America—and […]
  4199. p. 426, line 44[…] momentous spirit and facts of its immediate days, and of current America—and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in […]
  4200. p. 427, line 1[…] and to exploit that Personality, identified with place and date, in a far more candid and comprehensive sense than any hitherto poem or book […]
  4201. p. 427, line 4[…] Given the Nineteenth Century, with the United States, and what they furnish as area and points of view, "Leaves […]
  4202. p. 427, line 5[…] United States, and what they furnish as area and points of view, "Leaves of Grass " is, or seeks to […]
  4203. p. 427, line 6[…] is, or seeks to be, simply a faithful and doubtless self-will'd record. In the midst of all, it gives […]
  4204. p. 427, line 8[…] one man's—the author's—identity, ardors, observations, faiths, and thoughts, color'd hardly at all with any decided coloring from […]
  4205. p. 427, line 11[…] adjusted to other lands than these—another spirit and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave out […]
  4206. p. 427, line 12[…] and stage of evolution; but I would sing, and leave out or put in, quite solely with reference to […]
  4207. p. 427, line 13[…] put in, quite solely with reference to America and to-day. Modern science and democracy seem'd to be throwing out their challenge to poetry […]
  4208. p. 427, line 16[…] in its statements in contradistinction to the songs and myths of the past. As I see it now (perhaps […]
  4209. p. 427, line 17[…] late,) I have unwittingly taken up that challenge and made an attempt at such statements—which I certainly would […]
  4210. p. 427, line 26[…] nor rhyme. But the broadest average of humanity and its identities in the now ripening Nineteenth Century, and especially in each of their countless examples and practical occupations […]
  4211. p. 427, line 27[…] and especially in each of their countless examples and practical occupations in the United States to-day […]
  4212. p. 427, line 31[…] relative attitude towards God, towards the objective universe, and still more (by reflection, confession, assumption, &c.) the quite changed […]
  4213. p. 427, line 33[…] ego, the one chanting or talking, towards himself and towards his fellow-humanity. It is certainly time for America, above […]
  4214. p. 427, line 35[…] all, to begin this readjustment in the scope and basic point of view of verse; for everything else has […]
  4215. p. 427, line 40[…] that, owing to the special tendency to science and to its all-devouring force, poetry would cease to be read […]
  4216. p. 428, line 1[…] to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories […]
  4217. p. 428, line 2[…] to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to […]
  4218. p. 428, line 3[…] final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only. Without that ultimate vivification—which the […]
  4219. p. 428, line 5[…] artist alone can give—reality would seem incomplete, and science, democracy, and life itself, finally in vain […]
  4220. p. 428, line 10[…] The Nineteenth Century, now well towards its close (and ripening into fruit the seeds of the two preceding centuries […]
  4221. p. 428, line 11[…] two preceding centuries*)—the uprisings of national masses and shiftings of boundary-lines—the historical and other prominent facts of […]
  4222. p. 428, line 12[…] national masses and shiftings of boundary-lines—the historical and other prominent facts of the United States—the war of […]
  4223. p. 428, line 13[…] the war of attempted Secession—the stormy rush and haste of nebulous forces—never can future years witness more […]
  4224. p. 428, line 15[…] forces—never can future years witness more excitement and din of action—never completer change of army front along […]
  4225. p. 428, line 17[…] the whole civilized world. For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and […]
  4226. p. 428, line 18[…] facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable […]
  4227. p. 428, line 19My Book and I—what a period we have presumed to span! those […]
  4228. p. 428, line 20[…] presumed to span! those thirty years from 1850 to '80—and America in them! Proud, proud indeed may we be, if […]
  4229. p. 428, line 27[…] Religion, Love, Nature, while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in […]
  4230. p. 428, line 31[…] absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it […]
  4231. p. 428, line 34[…] nor do its poems. They grow of circumstances, and are evolutionary. The actual living light is always curiously from […]
  4232. p. 428, line 36[…] is always curiously from elsewhere—follows unaccountable sources, and is lunar and relative at the best. There are, I know, certain controling […]
  4233. p. 428, line 39[…] in the past—in the Bible, religious rapture and adoration—always love, beauty, some fine plot, or pensive or […]
  4234. p. 429, line 2[…] will say there is something striking far deeper and towering far higher than those themes for the best elements […]
  4235. p. 429, line 7[…] yet supplying the most important bases of them, and without which they could have had no reason for being […]
  4236. p. 429, line 10[…] was written, presupposed something different from any other, and, as it stands, is the result of such presupposition. I […]
  4237. p. 429, line 13[…] book without first carefully tallying that preparatory background and quality in the mind. Think of the United States to-day […]
  4238. p. 429, line 19[…] parts! Think, in comparison, of the petty environage and limited area of the poets of past or present Europe […]
  4239. p. 429, line 20[…] how great their genius. Think of the absence and ignorance, in all cases hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality, and […]
  4240. p. 429, line 22[…] in all cases hitherto, of the multitudinousness, vitality, and the unprecedented stimulants of to-day and here. It almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic […]
  4241. p. 429, line 23[…] almost seems as if a poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human […]
  4242. p. 429, line 24[…] poetry with cosmic and dynamic features of magnitude and limitlessness suitable to the human soul, were never possible before […]
  4243. p. 429, line 25[…] is certain that a poetry of absolute faith and equality for the use of the democratic masses never was […]
  4244. p. 429, line 28[…] other hand, what may be call'd the negative and lack of it, (as in Goethe's case, it sometimes seems […]
  4245. p. 429, line 32[…] less removes, the material facts of their country and radius, with the coloring of the moods of humanity at […]
  4246. p. 429, line 33[…] of the moods of humanity at the time, and its gloomy or hopeful prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and forming their birth-marks. I know very well […]
  4247. p. 429, line 34[…] hopeful prospects, behind all poets and each poet, and forming their birth-marks. I know very well that my "Leaves […]
  4248. p. 429, line 38[…] Century, nor any other land than democratic America, and from the absolute triumph of the National Union arms […]
  4249. p. 429, line 40And whether my friends claim it for me or not, I […]
  4250. p. 429, line 42[…] that in respect to pictorial talent, dramatic situations, and especially in verbal melody and all the conventional technique of poetry, not only the divine […]
  4251. p. 430, line 2[…] the objects in Nature, the themes of æstheticism, and all special exploitations of the mind and soul, involve not only their own inherent quality, but the […]
  4252. p. 430, line 4[…] inherent quality, but the quality, just as inherent and important, of their point of view,* the time had come […]
  4253. p. 430, line 5[…] the time had come to reflect all themes and things, old and new, in the lights thrown on them by the advent […]
  4254. p. 430, line 6[…] thrown on them by the advent of America and democracy—to chant those themes through the utterance of one […]
  4255. p. 430, line 8[…] the utterance of one, not only the grateful and reverent legatee of the past, but the born child of […]
  4256. p. 430, line 9[…] New World—to illustrate all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are […]
  4257. p. 430, line 10[…] all through the genesis and ensemble of to-day; and that such illustration and ensemble are the chief demands of America's prospective imaginative literature […]
  4258. p. 430, line 14[…] courtesies—all of which has been done overwhelmingly and well, probably never to be excell'd—but that while in […]
  4259. p. 430, line 17[…] of objects, passions, plots, thoughts, &c., our lands and days do not want, and probably will never have, anything better than they already possess […]
  4260. p. 430, line 20[…] there is even towards all those a subjective and contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to […]
  4261. p. 430, line 21[…] contemporary point of view appropriate to ourselves alone, and to our new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of […]
  4262. p. 430, line 22[…] new genius and environments, different from anything hitherto; and that such conception of current or gone-by life and art […]
  4263. p. 430, line 23[…] that such conception of current or gone-by life and art is for us the only means of their assimilation […]
  4264. p. 430, line 25Indeed, and anyhow, to put it specifically, has not the time arrived […]
  4265. p. 430, line 28[…] imperatively come a readjustment of the whole theory and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I may […]
  4266. p. 430, line 29[…] and nature of Poetry? The question is important, and I may turn the argument over and repeat it: Does not the best thought of our day […]
  4267. p. 430, line 30[…] Does not the best thought of our day and Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of song superior […]
  4268. p. 430, line 31[…] our day and Republic conceive of a birth and spirit of song superior to anything past or present? To […]
  4269. p. 430, line 32[…] to anything past or present? To the effectual and moral consolidation of our lands (already, as materially establish'd, the […]
  4270. p. 430, line 34[…] materially establish'd, the greatest factors in known history, and far, far greater through what they prelude and necessitate, and […]
  4271. p. 430, line 35[…] and far, far greater through what they prelude and necessitate, and are to be in future)—to conform with and build on the concrete realities and theories of the universe […]
  4272. p. 430, line 36[…] conform with and build on the concrete realities and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the […]
  4273. p. 430, line 37[…] and theories of the universe furnish'd by science, and henceforth the only irrefragable basis for anything, verse included—to […]
  4274. p. 430, line 39[…] included—to root both influences in the emotional and imaginative action of the modern time, and dominate all that precedes or opposes them—is not either […]
  4275. p. 430, line 41[…] opposes them—is not either a radical advance and step forward, or a new verteber of the best song […]
  4276. p. 431, line 3[…] deaden or displace those voices from our ear and area—holds them indeed as indispensable studies, influences, records, comparisons […]
  4277. p. 431, line 8[…] individuality, Old World or New, are from them—and though if I were ask'd to name the most precious […]
  4278. p. 431, line 10[…] not sure but I would name those old and less old songs ferried hither from east and west—some […]
  4279. p. 431, line 11[…] and less old songs ferried hither from east and west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations […]
  4280. p. 431, line 12[…] hither from east and west—some serious words and debits remain; some acrid considerations demand a hearing. Of the […]
  4281. p. 431, line 13[…] hearing. Of the great poems receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is […]
  4282. p. 431, line 14[…] poems receiv'd from abroad and from the ages, and to-day enveloping and penetrating America, is there one that is consistent with these […]
  4283. p. 431, line 16[…] or essentially applicable to them as they are and are to be? Is there one whose underlying basis is […]
  4284. p. 431, line 17[…] one whose underlying basis is not a denial and insult to democracy? What a comment it forms, anyhow, on […]
  4285. p. 431, line 19[…] literary fulfilment, with the splendid day-rise of science and resuscitation of history, that our chief religious and poetical works […]
  4286. p. 431, line 20[…] and resuscitation of history, that our chief religious and poetical works are not our own, nor adapted to our […]
  4287. p. 431, line 22[…] furnish'd by far-back ages out of their arriere and darkness, or, at most, twilight dimness! What is there in […]
  4288. p. 431, line 23[…] is there in those works that so imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization, and culture […]
  4289. p. 431, line 24[…] imperiously and scornfully dominates all our advanced civilization, and culture […]
  4290. p. 431, line 25Even Shakspere, who so suffuses current letters and art (which indeed have in most degrees grown out of […]
  4291. p. 431, line 30[…] yet given voice to. All, however, relate to and rest upon conditions, standards, politics, sociologies, ranges of belief, that […]
  4292. p. 431, line 32[…] have been quite eliminated from the Eastern hemisphere, and never existed at all in the Western. As authoritative types […]
  4293. p. 431, line 34[…] America just about as much as the persons and institutes they depict. True, it may be said, the emotional […]
  4294. p. 431, line 35[…] True, it may be said, the emotional, moral, and æsthetic natures of humanity have not radically changed—that in […]
  4295. p. 431, line 37[…] these the old poems apply to our times and all times, irrespective of date; and that they are of incalculable value as pictures of the […]
  4296. p. 431, line 39[…] of the past. I willingly make those admissions, and to their fullest extent; then advance the points herewith as […]
  4297. p. 431, line 41[…] have indeed put on record elsewhere my reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness […]
  4298. p. 431, line 42[…] reverence and eulogy for those never-to-be-excell'd poetic bequests, and their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate […]
  4299. p. 431, line 43[…] their indescribable preciousness as heirlooms for America. Another and separate point must now be candidly stated. If I had […]
  4300. p. 432, line 2[…] uncover'd head, fully aware of their colossal grandeur and beauty of form and spirit, I could not have written "Leaves of Grass." My […]
  4301. p. 432, line 3[…] not have written "Leaves of Grass." My verdict and conclusions as illustrated in its pages are arrived at through […]
  4302. p. 432, line 4[…] its pages are arrived at through the temper and inculcation of the old works as much as through anything […]
  4303. p. 432, line 6[…] more than through anything else. As America fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome of […]
  4304. p. 432, line 7[…] fully and fairly construed is the legitimate result and evolutionary outcome of the past, so I would dare to […]
  4305. p. 432, line 11[…] of myths, fictions, feudalism, conquest, caste, dynastic wars, and splendid exceptional characters and affairs, which have been great; but the New World needs […]
  4306. p. 432, line 12[…] the New World needs the poems of realities and science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which […]
  4307. p. 432, line 13[…] World needs the poems of realities and science and of the democratic average and basic equality, which shall be greater. In the centre of […]
  4308. p. 432, line 14[…] shall be greater. In the centre of all, and object of all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic […]
  4309. p. 432, line 15[…] all, stands the Human Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old […]
  4310. p. 432, line 16[…] Being, towards whose heroic and spiritual evolution poems and everything directly or indirectly tend, Old World or New […]
  4311. p. 432, line 20[…] some further embryonic facts of "Leaves of Grass," and especially how I enter'd upon them. Dr. Bucke has, in […]
  4312. p. 432, line 22[…] Dr. Bucke has, in his volume, already fully and fairly described the preparation of my poetic field, with the […]
  4313. p. 432, line 23[…] preparation of my poetic field, with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till […]
  4314. p. 432, line 24[…] with the particular and general plowing, planting, seeding, and occupation of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and […]
  4315. p. 432, line 25[…] of the ground, till everything was fertilized, rooted, and ready to start its own way for good or bad […]
  4316. p. 432, line 30[…] containing Walter Scott's poetry entire—an inexhaustible mine and treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles […]
  4317. p. 432, line 31[…] treasury of poetic forage (especially the endless forests and jungles of notes)—has been so to me for fifty […]
  4318. p. 432, line 32[…] has been so to me for fifty years, and remains so to this day […]
  4319. p. 432, line 33Later, at intervals, summers and falls, I used to go off, sometimes for a week […]
  4320. p. 433, line 1[…] outdoor influences, I went over thoroughly the Old and New Testaments, and absorb'd (probably to better advantage for me than in any […]
  4321. p. 433, line 6[…] the old German Nibelungen, the ancient Hindoo poems, and one or two other masterpieces, Dante's among them. As it […]
  4322. p. 433, line 10[…] Long Island, in a shelter'd hollow of rocks and sand, with the sea on each side. (I have wonder'd […]
  4323. p. 433, line 14[…] Nature, under the sun, with the far-spreading landscape and vistas, or the sea rolling in […]
  4324. p. 433, line 19[…] flat up to g) they were melodious expressions, and perhaps never excell'd ones, of certain pronounc'd phases of human […]
  4325. p. 433, line 25[…] Poe's argument, though short, work'd the sum out and proved it to me […]
  4326. p. 433, line 28[…] greatly. I saw, from the time my enterprise and questionings positively shaped themselves (how best can I express my […]
  4327. p. 433, line 30[…] best can I express my own distinctive era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the […]
  4328. p. 433, line 31[…] era and surroundings, America, Democracy?) that the trunk and centre whence the answer was to radiate, and to which all should return from straying however far a […]
  4329. p. 433, line 33[…] far a distance, must be an identical body and soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings […]
  4330. p. 433, line 34[…] soul, a personality—which personality, after many considerations and ponderings I deliberately settled should be myself—indeed could not […]
  4331. p. 433, line 36[…] shown it or not) that to the true and full estimate of the Present both the Past and the […]
  4332. p. 433, line 37[…] full estimate of the Present both the Past and the Future are main considerations […]
  4333. p. 433, line 39These, however, and much more might have gone on and come to naught (almost positively would have come to naught […]
  4334. p. 433, line 41[…] to naught,) if a sudden, vast, terrible, direct and indirect stimulus for new and national declamatory expression had not been given to me. It […]
  4335. p. 433, line 44[…] only from the occurrence of the Secession War, and what it show'd me as by flashes of lightning, with […]
  4336. p. 434, line 1[…] of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my own heart […]
  4337. p. 434, line 3[…] in millions)—that only from the strong flare and provocation of that war's sights and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song […]
  4338. p. 434, line 4[…] and scenes the final reasons-for-being of an autochthonic and passionate song definitely came forth […]
  4339. p. 434, line 7[…] of 1862), lived thenceforward in camp—saw great battles and the days and nights afterward—partook of all the fluctuations, gloom, despair, hopes […]
  4340. p. 434, line 10[…] evoked—death readily risk'd—the cause, too—along and filling those agonistic and lurid following years, 1863-'64-'65—the real parturition years (more than 1776-'83) of […]
  4341. p. 434, line 13[…] homogeneous Union. Without those three or four years and the experiences they gave, "Leaves of Grass" would not now […]
  4342. p. 434, line 17[…] not then, at least not definitely) were bases and object-urgings toward those "Leaves" from the first. The word I […]
  4343. p. 434, line 20[…] at last, is the word Suggestiveness. I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme. The reader will always […]
  4344. p. 434, line 23[…] to state or display any theme or thought, and more to bring you, reader, into the atmosphere of the […]
  4345. p. 434, line 26[…] Another impetus-word is Comradeship as for all lands, and in a more commanding and acknowledg'd sense than hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer […]
  4346. p. 434, line 28[…] hitherto. Other word-signs would be Good Cheer, Content, and Hope […]
  4347. p. 434, line 30[…] spirit he brings to the observation of Humanity and Nature—the mood out of which he contemplates his subjects […]
  4348. p. 434, line 31[…] he contemplates his subjects. What kind of temper and what amount of faith report these things? Up to how […]
  4349. p. 434, line 33[…] date is the song carried? What the equipment, and special raciness of the singer—what his tinge of coloring […]
  4350. p. 434, line 35[…] coloring? The last value of artistic expressers, past and present—Greek æsthetes, Shakspere—or in our own day Tennyson […]
  4351. p. 434, line 40[…] to satisfy the intellect, or supply something polish'd and interesting, nor even to depict great passions, or persons or […]
  4352. p. 434, line 41[…] or events, but to fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a […]
  4353. p. 434, line 42[…] fill him with vigorous and clean manliness, religiousness, and give him good heart as a radical possession and habit […]
  4354. p. 434, line 43[…] give him good heart as a radical possession and habit. The educated world seems to have been growing more […]
  4355. p. 434, line 44[…] educated world seems to have been growing more and more ennuyed for ages, leaving to our time the inheritance […]
  4356. p. 435, line 3[…] the race, forever eligible to be appeal'd to and relied on […]
  4357. p. 435, line 5[…] for native American individuality, though certain to come, and on a large scale, the distinctive and ideal type of Western character (as consistent with the operative […]
  4358. p. 435, line 6[…] Western character (as consistent with the operative political and even money-making features of United States' humanity in the Nineteenth […]
  4359. p. 435, line 8[…] in the Nineteenth Century as chosen knights, gentlemen and warriors were the ideals of the centuries of European feudalism […]
  4360. p. 435, line 11[…] beginning to end to bear upon American individuality and assist it—not only because that is a great lesson […]
  4361. p. 435, line 14[…] as counterpoise to the leveling tendencies of Democracy—and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions […]
  4362. p. 435, line 15[…] and for other reasons. Defiant of ostensible literary and other conventions, I avowedly chant "the great pride of man […]
  4363. p. 435, line 16[…] chant "the great pride of man in himself," and permit it to be more or less a motif of […]
  4364. p. 435, line 19[…] think it not inconsistent with obedience, humility, deference, and self-questioning […]
  4365. p. 435, line 20Democracy has been so retarded and jeopardized by powerful personalities, that its first instincts are fain […]
  4366. p. 435, line 22[…] are fain to clip, conform, bring in stragglers, and reduce everything to a dead level. While the ambitious thought […]
  4367. p. 435, line 25[…] through the forming of myriads of fully develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and […]
  4368. p. 435, line 26[…] develop'd and enclosing individuals. Welcome as are equality's and fraternity's doctrines and popular education, a certain liability accompanies them all, as we […]
  4369. p. 435, line 28[…] accompanies them all, as we see. That primal and interior something in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all […]
  4370. p. 435, line 29[…] in man, in his soul's abysms, coloring all, and, by exceptional fruitions, giving the last majesty to him—something […]
  4371. p. 435, line 30[…] last majesty to him—something continually touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and […]
  4372. p. 435, line 31[…] touch'd upon and attain'd by the old poems and ballads of feudalism, and often the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy […]
  4373. p. 435, line 32[…] often the principal foundation of them—modern science and democracy appear to be endangering, perhaps eliminating. But that forms […]
  4374. p. 435, line 36[…] the way for grander individualities than ever. To-day and here personal force is behind everything, just the same. The […]
  4375. p. 435, line 37[…] is behind everything, just the same. The times and depictions from the Iliad to Shakspere inclusive can happily never […]
  4376. p. 435, line 39[…] again be realized—but the elements of courageous and lofty manhood are unchanged […]
  4377. p. 435, line 41Without yielding an inch the working-man and working-woman were to be in my pages from first to […]
  4378. p. 435, line 43[…] from first to last. The ranges of heroism and loftiness with which Greek and feudal poets endow'd their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed […]
  4379. p. 435, line 45[…] their god-like or lordly born characters—indeed prouder and better based and with fuller ranges than those—I was to endow the […]
  4380. p. 436, line 2[…] America. I was to show that we, here and to-day, are eligible to the grandest and the best—more eligible now than any times of old […]
  4381. p. 436, line 4[…] poems of the morning. (They have been founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of […]
  4382. p. 436, line 5[…] founded and mainly written in the sunny forenoon and early midday of my life.) I will want them to […]
  4383. p. 436, line 9[…] preference or partiality whatever. Henceforth, if they live and are read, it must be just as much South as […]
  4384. p. 436, line 12[…] in Canada, up in Maine, down in Texas, and on the shores of Puget Sound […]
  4385. p. 436, line 14[…] of Grass" is avowedly the song of Sex and Amativeness, and even Animality—though meanings that do not usually go along […]
  4386. p. 436, line 15[…] go along with those words are behind all, and will duly emerge; and all are sought to be lifted into a different light […]
  4387. p. 436, line 16[…] sought to be lifted into a different light and atmosphere. Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines […]
  4388. p. 436, line 22[…] to achieve a shifted attitude from superior men and women towards the thought and fact of sexuality, as an element in character, personality, the […]
  4389. p. 436, line 23[…] as an element in character, personality, the emotions, and a theme in literature. I am not going to argue […]
  4390. p. 436, line 27[…] At last analogy the lines I allude to, and the spirit in which they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves […]
  4391. p. 436, line 28[…] they are spoken, permeate all " Leaves of Grass," and the work must stand or fall with them, as the […]
  4392. p. 436, line 29[…] or fall with them, as the human body and soul must remain as an entirety […]
  4393. p. 436, line 31Universal as are certain facts and symptoms of communities or individuals all times, there is nothing […]
  4394. p. 436, line 33[…] there is nothing so rare in modern conventions and poetry as their normal recognizance. Literature is always calling in […]
  4395. p. 436, line 34[…] is always calling in the doctor for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that […]
  4396. p. 436, line 35[…] for consultation and confession, and always giving evasions and swathing suppressions in place of that "heroic nudity" * on which […]
  4397. p. 436, line 37[…] genuine diagnosis of serious cases can be built. And in respect to editions of " Leaves of Grass" in time […]
  4398. p. 436, line 39[…] to confirm those lines with the settled convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as […]
  4399. p. 436, line 40[…] settled convictions and deliberate renewals of thirty years, and to hereby prohibit, as far as word of mine can […]
  4400. p. 437, line 1[…] Then still a purpose enclosing all, and over and beneath all. Ever since what might be call'd thought, or […]
  4401. p. 437, line 4[…] attempt some worthy record of that entire faith and acceptance ("to justify the ways of God to man" is […]
  4402. p. 437, line 6[…] ways of God to man" is Milton's well-known and ambitious phrase) which is the foundation of moral America. I […]
  4403. p. 437, line 14[…] it out, I fully believe in a clue and purpose in Nature, entire and several; and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as […]
  4404. p. 437, line 15[…] and that invisible spiritual results, just as real and definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all […]
  4405. p. 437, line 16[…] definite as the visible, eventuate all concrete life and all materialism, through Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy […]
  4406. p. 437, line 17[…] through Time. My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those […]
  4407. p. 437, line 18[…] for it was grown out of those elements, and has been the comfort of my life since it was […]
  4408. p. 437, line 22[…] of the United States is to be spiritual and heroic. To help start and favor that growth—or even to call attention to it […]
  4409. p. 437, line 24[…] the need of it—is the beginning, middle and final purpose of the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd […]
  4410. p. 437, line 25[…] the poems. (In fact, when really cipher'd out and summ'd to the last, plowing up in earnest the interminable […]
  4411. p. 437, line 28[…] merely, in the common sense—is the justification and main purpose of these United States […]
  4412. p. 437, line 31[…] in my opinion distasteful to the republican genius, and offer no foundation for its fitting verse. Establish'd poems, I […]
  4413. p. 437, line 36[…] All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries […]
  4414. p. 437, line 37[…] regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere—lives on its own […]
  4415. p. 437, line 39[…] own blood "—a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity […]
  4416. p. 438, line 1[…] looking at it thoughtfully for a good while, and listening to the criticisms of his suite of students, he […]
  4417. p. 438, line 4[…] belong'd,) "I do not believe the artist, unknown and perhaps no longer living, who has given the world this […]
  4418. p. 438, line 9[…] mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt, from first to last, to […]
  4419. p. 438, line 12[…] of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record. I could not find any similar personal […]
  4420. p. 438, line 20[…] ever existed so needing a race of singers and poems differing from all others, and rigidly their own, as the land and people and circumstances […]
  4421. p. 438, line 21[…] others, and rigidly their own, as the land and people and circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems […]
  4422. p. 438, line 22[…] circumstances of our United States need such singers and poems to-day, and for the future. Still further, as long as the States […]
  4423. p. 438, line 24[…] as long as the States continue to absorb and be dominated by the poetry of the Old World, and remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give […]
  4424. p. 438, line 25[…] remain unsupplied with autochthonous song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material and political success […]
  4425. p. 438, line 26[…] song, to express, vitalize and give color to and define their material and political success, and minister to them distinctively, so long will they stop short […]
  4426. p. 438, line 28[…] long will they stop short of first-class Nationality and remain defective […]
  4427. p. 438, line 37[…] Biblical canticles) the result of a national spirit, and not the privilege of a polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet […]
  4428. p. 438, line 38[…] polish'd and select few; Second, that the strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung […]