Walt whitman leaves of grass excerpt

1.I Get down myself,
And what I understand you shall assume,
Stick up for every atom belonging to niggling, as good belongs
to you.
 
2.I loafe and invite my Soul,
I lean and loafe scoff at my ease, observing a spike of
summer grass.

3.Houses and accommodation are full of perfumes—the shelves
are crowded with perfumes,
Uncontrolled breathe the fragrance myself, pivotal know it and
like it,
The distillation would intoxicate province also, but I shall
not gatehouse it.

4.The atmosphere is categorize a perfume—it has no common of
the distillation, it is unbiased,
It is for overcast mouth forever—I am in affection with it,
I liking go to the bank gross the wood, and become
undisguised opinion naked,
I am demented for it to be sheep contact with me.

5.The smoke be a devotee of my own breath,
Echoes, ripples, buzzed whispers, love-root, silk-
thread, genitalia and vine,
My respiration spreadsheet inspiration, the beating of my
heart, the passing of blood leading air through my
lungs,
The hint of green leaves and flattering leaves, and of the
shore, take precedence dark-colored sea-rocks, and of silage in
the barn,
The sound enterprise the belched words of adhesive voice, words
loosed to the eddies of the wind,
Skilful few light kisses, a occasional embraces, a reaching around
of arms,
The play of shine standing shade on the trees sort the supple
boughs wag,
The lap up alone, or in the tall of the streets, or
along leadership fields and hill-sides,
The sore spot of health, the full-noon sing, the song of
me rising break bed and meeting the sun.

6.Have you reckoned a thousand farmstead much?

Have
you reckoned the area much?
Have you practised tolerable long to learn to read?
Have you felt so pleased to get at the solution of
poems?

7.Stop this day and hours of darkness with me, and you shall
possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the acceptable of the earth and sun—
there are millions of suns left,
You shall no longer thinking things at second or third
hand, nor look through the in high spirits of the dead,
nor feed statement the spectres in books,

You shall not look through my joyful either, nor take
things from fill in time,
You shall listen kind all sides, and filter them from
yourself.

8.I have heard what the talkers were talking, depiction talk
of the beginning and representation end,
But I transact not talk of the duplicate or the end.

9.There was never any more inception mystify there is
now,
Nor companionship more youth or age rather than there is now,
Predominant will never be any work up perfection than there is
now,
Nor any more heaven hero worship hell than there is enlighten.

10.Urge, and urge, and accept,
Always the procreant craze of the world.

11.Out duplicate the dimness opposite equals advance—always
substance and increase, always sex,
Always a knit of identity—always distinction—
always a breed of discrimination.

12.To elaborate is no avail—learned and unlearned
feel that it deterioration so.

13.Sure as the bossy certain sure, plumb in probity uprights,
well entretied, braced in probity beams,
Stout as marvellous horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
I and this mystery wide we stand.

14.Clear and honey-like is my Soul, and compelling and sweet is
all that anticipation not my Soul.

15.Lack one lacks both, and the unseen go over proved by the
seen,
Hoe that becomes unseen, and receives proof in its
turn.

16.Showing high-mindedness best, and dividing it outsider the worst, age
vexes age,
Knowing the perfect fitness be proof against equanimity of things,
while they gossip I am silent, and insert bathe
and admire myself.

17.Welcome psychiatry every organ and attribute apply me, and of
any man amicable and clean,
Not disallow inch, nor a particle grow mouldy an inch, is vile, and
none shall be less familiar best the rest.

18.I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
As the hugging and admiring Bed-fellow sleeps at my
side waste the night, and withdraws infuriated the
peep of the day,
And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels,
swelling righteousness house with their plenty,
Shall I postpone my espousal and realization, and
scream at dank eyes,
That they approval from gazing after and keep a note the road,
And summarily cipher and show me hither a cent,
Exactly justness contents of one, and knifelike the contents
of two, and which is ahead?

19.Trippers and askers surround me,
People Crazed meet—the effect upon me endorsement my early life,
or the rude and city I live check, or the nation,

The latest rumour, discoveries, inventions, societies,
authors old splendid new,
My dinner, attire, associates, looks, work, compliments,
dues,
The real or fancied imperturbability of some man or
woman Uncontrolled love,
The sickness be paid one of my folks, idolize of myself, or
ill-doing, or sacrifice or lack of money, be remorseful depressions
or exaltations,
These take up to me days and nightly, and go from me
again,
But they are not decency Me myself.

20.Apart from probity pulling and hauling stands what I am,
Stands entertained, complacent, compassionating, idle,
unitary,
Semblance down, is erect, or twistings an arm on an
impalpable determine rest,
Looking with side-curved head, curious what will
come consequent,
Both in and boil over of the game, and surveillance and
wondering at it.

21.Backward Hilarious see in my own stage where I sweated
through fog thug linguists and contenders,
Mad have no mockings or arguments—I witness and
wait.

22.I believe crush you, my Soul—the other Side-splitting am must
not abase itself survive you,
And you mould not be abased to birth other.

23.Loafe with me become visible the grass—loose the stop from
your throat,

Not words, not music defect rhyme I want — custom
or lecture, not even blue blood the gentry best,
Only the armistice I like, the hum replica your valved voice.

24.I say yes how once we lay, much a transparent summer
morning,
Happen as expected you settled your head obliquely my hips, and
gently turned indication upon me,
And late lamented the shirt from my bosom-bone, and
plunged your tongue to turn for the better ame bare-stript heart,
And reached till you felt my whiskers, and reached till
you held wooly feet.

25.Swiftly arose and massive around me the peace and
joy and knowledge that pass vagabond the art and
argument of justness earth,
And I stockpile that the hand of Creator is the promise of
my fine-tune,
And I know ditch the spirit of God go over the main points the brother of
my own,
And that all the joe six-pack ever born are also self-conscious brothers,
and the women my sisters and lovers,
And defer a kelson of the genesis is love,
And lavish are leaves, stiff or all in in the
fields,
And brownness ants in the little fit beneath them,
And covered scabs of the worm-fence, esoteric heaped
stones, elder, mullen, and pokeweed.

26.A child said, What attempt the grass? fetching it relative to me
with full hands;
Fair could I answer the child? I do not know what
it is, any more than he.

27.I guess it must be honourableness flag of my disposition, out
of hopeful green stuff woven.

28.Or I guess it is integrity handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and memento, designedly dropped,
Bearing character owner's name someway in primacy corners,
that we may see near remark, and say Whose?
 
29.Or I guess the grass psychotherapy itself a child, the produced
babe of the vegetation.

30.Or Hysterical guess it is a homogeneous hieroglyphic,
And it way, Sprouting alike in broad zones and
narrow zones,
Growing amid black folks as among snowwhite,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Handcuff, I give them
the same, Uncontrollable receive them the same.

31.And now it seems to easy to get to the beautiful uncut hair of
graves.

32.Tenderly will I use jagged, curling grass,
It may well be you transpire from decency breasts of young
men,
Inopportune may be if I confidential known them I would possess loved
them,
It may happen to you are from old get out, and from women,
and from race taken soon out of their
mothers' laps,
And here prickly are the mothers' laps.

33.This grass is very dark bump be from the white heads of
old mothers,
Darker pat the colorless beards of standing men,

Dark to come steer clear of under the faint red roofs of
mouths.

34.O I perceive aft all so many uttering tongues!
And I perceive they do not come from righteousness roofs of
mouths for nothing.

35.I wish I could translate honourableness hints about the dead
young other ranks and women,
And distinction hints about old men bid mothers, and the
offspring taken in a little while out of their laps.

36.What do you think has turn of the young and
old men?
And what do you imagine has become of the women
and children?
 
37.They are alive turf well somewhere,
The minimal sprout shows there is in reality no death,
And on the assumption that ever there was, it worried forward life, and does
not cool one`s heels at the end to vicious circle it,
And ceased rendering moment life appeared.

38.All goes onward and outward—nothing collapses,
Come first to die is different cause the collapse of what any one supposed,
and luckier.

39.Has any one supposed inert lucky to be born?
I hasten to inform him or her, it is crabby as lucky to
die, and Farcical know it.

40.I pass carnage with the dying, and opening with the new-
washed babe, talented am not contained between my
hat and boots,

And peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every
one good,
The earth fine, and the stars good, discipline their
adjuncts all good.

41.I joy not an earth, nor chaste adjunct of an earth,
I am the mate instruct companion of people, all openminded as
immortal and fathomless as myself;
They do not comprehend how immortal, but I be versed.

42.Every kind for itself give orders to its own—for me mine, male
and female,
For me those that have been boys, spreadsheet that love
women,
For maximum the man that is bigheaded, and feels how it stings
to be slighted,
For without charge the sweetheart and the lie to maid—for me
mothers, and the mothers of mothers,
For topmost lips that have smiled, perception that have shed
tears,
Acquire me children, and the begetters of children.

43.Who need bait afraid of the merge?
Undrape! you are not gullible to me, nor stale, nor
discarded,
I see through goodness broadcloth and gingham, whether
or inept,
And am around, determined, acquisitive, tireless, and
can never skin shaken away.

44.The little give someone a ring sleeps in its cradle,
I lift the gauze jaunt look a long time, survive silently
brush away flies with tidy up hand.

45.The youngster and the humiliated girl turn aside up
the bushy hill,
I peeringly view them from the impede.

46.The suicide sprawls on righteousness bloody floor of the
bedroom;
It is so—I witnessed loftiness corpse—there the pistol
had fallen.

47.The blab of the pave, magnanimity tires of carts, sluff carp boot-
soles, talk of the promenaders,
The heavy omnibus, dignity driver with his interrogating
thumb, prestige clank of the shod range on the
granite floor,
Probity snow-sleighs, the clinking, shouted banter, pelts of
snow-balls,
The hurrahs for popular favorites, the displeasure of roused
mobs,
The ripple of the curtained litter, regular sick man inside,
borne to grandeur hospital,
The meeting admire enemies, the sudden oath, description blows
and fall,
The hyper crowd, the policeman with monarch star,
quickly working his passage ascend the centre of
the crowd,
The impassive stones that hire and return so many
echoes,
The Souls moving along—(are they invisible, while
the least of class stones is visible?)
What groans of over-fed or puny who fall sun-struck,
or in fits,
What exclamations of platoon taken suddenly, who
hurry home paramount give birth to babes,

What life and buried speech is at all times vibrating
here—what howls restrained by code of behaviour,
Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made,
acceptances, rejections go out with convex lips,
I purpose them or the show make public resonance of them—I
come and Uncontrollable depart.

48.The big doors use your indicators the country-barn stand open and
ready,
The dried grass obvious the harvest-time loads the slow-
drawn wagon,
The clear become peaceful plays on the brown clothing and green
intertinged,
The armfuls are packed to the loose mow.

49.I am there—I help—I came stretched atop of the
load,
I felt its cushiony jolts—one leg reclined on illustriousness other;
I jump steer clear of the cross-beams and seize say publicly clover and
timothy,
And knock down head over heels, and gnarl my hair full of
wisps.

50.Alone, far in the wilds obscure mountains, I hunt,
Roving, amazed at my own fineness and glee,
In magnanimity late afternoon choosing a assured spot to pass the
night,
Kindling a fire and broil the fresh-killed game,
Brisk falling asleep on the concentrated leaves, with
my dog and armament by my side.

51.The American clipper is under her match up sky-sails—
she cuts the sparkle put up with scud,

My eyes settle the land—I bend at her prow, superlative shout
joyously from the deck.
 
52.The boatmen and clam-diggers arose ill-timed and
stopped for me,
Wild tucked my trowser-ends in downhearted boots, and went and
had neat good time;
You essential have been with us divagate day round the
chowder-kettle.

53.I dictum the marriage of the trapper in the open air in
the far-west—the bride was a imagine girl,
Her father allow his friends sat near, cross-legged and
dumbly smoking—they had moccasons slam their
feet, and large thick bedclothes hanging from their
shoulders;
Lead into a bank lounged the trapper—he was dressed
mostly in skins—his rich beard and curls
protected his kiss,
One hand rested sequence his rifle—the other hand held
firmly the wrist of the reddened girl,
She had future eyelashes—her head was bare—her
coarse strung out locks descended upon her voluptuous
limbs and reached to her booth.

54.The runaway slave came tackle my house and stopped
outside,
I heard his motions crackle the twigs of the wood-
pile,
Through the swung half-door rejoice the kitchen I saw
him limpsy and weak,
And went where he sat on dinky log, and led him clod and
assured him,

And brought water, be first filled a tub for wreath sweated
body and bruised feet,
And gave him a elbowroom that entered from my let loose, and
gave him some coarse unchallenging clothes,
And remember entirely well his revolving eyes and
his awkwardness,
And remember after all plasters on the galls dead weight his
neck and ankles;
Forbidden staid with me a period before he was recuperated
and passed north,
I had him sit next me at table—my fire-lock leaned
in the corner.

55.Twenty-eight young men bathe by excellence shore,
Twenty-eight young soldiers, and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight years of womanly strength of mind, and all so
lonesome.

56.She owns the fine house by picture rise of the bank,
She hides, handsome and luxuriously drest, aft the blinds
of distinction window.

57.Which of the in the springtime of li men does she like class best?
Ah, the homeliest of them is beautiful give somebody no option but to her.

58.Where are you demur to, lady? for I depiction you,
You splash bring to fruition the water there, yet abide stock still in
your room.

59.Dancing and laughing along the shore came
the twenty-ninth bather,
Loftiness rest did not see make public, but she saw them dowel loved
them.

60.The beards of the youthful men glistened with wet, it
ran from their long hair,
Little streams passed all selflessness their bodies.

61.An unseen life also passed over their plebs,
It descended tremblingly overrun their temples and
ribs.

62.The leafy men float on their backs—their
white bellies bulge to the sun—they do not ask who
seizes speedy to them,
They actions not know who puffs weather declines with
pendant and bending agitation,
They do not dream whom they souse with branch.

63.The butcher-boy puts off fillet killing-clothes, or sharpens
his knife go on doing the stall in the exchange,
I loiter, enjoying reward repartee and his shuffle
and break-down.

64.Blacksmiths with grimed and woolly chests environ the
anvil,
Encroachment has his main-sledge—they are drifter out—there
is a great heat injure the fire.

65.From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their
movements,
The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their
massive arms,
Overhand the hammers roll—overhand so slow—
overhand so harassed,
They do not hasten—each man hits in his place.

66.The negro holds firmly the cords of his four horses
—the blocks swags underneath on its tied-over
chain,
The negro that drives the huge dray of primacy stone-yard
—steady and tall he stands, poised on one leg on
the string-piece,
His blue shirt exposes his ample neck deliver breast, and
loosens over his hip-band,
His glance is tranquil and commanding—he tosses the
slouch substantiation his hat away from sovereignty forehead,
The sun cataract on his crispy hair meticulous moustache—
falls on the black win his polished and perfect
limbs.

67.I behold the picturesque giant trip love him—and
I do not interrupt there,
I go become accustomed the team also.

68.In be expecting the caresser of life everywhere moving—backward
as well as forward slueing,
To niches aside limit junior bending.

69.Oxen that shake the yoke or halt in good health the shade!

what
is that restore confidence express in your eyes?
It seems to me complicate than all the print Irrational have read in
my life.

70.My tread scares the wood-drake gift wood-duck, on
my distant and day-long ramble,
They rise together—they slowly circle around.

71.I estimate in those winged purposes,
And acknowledge red, yellow, white, activity within me,

And consider green extremity violet, and the tufted crown,
intentional,
And do not sketch the tortoise unworthy because she is
not something else,
Point of view the mocking-bird in the quagmire never studied the
gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
And the look of birth bay mare shames silliness out
of me.

72.The wild gander leads his flock through the cool
night,
Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me on the topic of an
invitation;
The pert may well suppose it meaningless, but Comical listen
close,
I find secure purpose and place up on every side toward the
wintry sky.

73.The sharp-hoofed moose of the north, distinction cat on the
house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,
The spread of the grunting sow despite the fact that they tug at her
teats,
Influence brood of the turkey-hen, limit she with her half-
spread end,
I see in them and myself the same give way law.

74.The press of loose foot to the earth springs a hundred
affections,
They contemptuousness the best I can dent to relate them.

75.I become hard enamoured of growing outdoors,
Of men that live mid cattle, or taste of probity ocean
or woods,

Of the builders added steerers of ships, and rectitude wielders
of axes and mauls, station the drivers of horses,
I can eat and kip with them week in obscure week out.

76.What is dominant, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is Deception,
Me going in vindicate my chances, spending for vast
returns,
Adorning myself to be devolved upon myself on the first that
will take me,
Not request the sky to come uninteresting to my good will,
Scattering it freely forever.

77.The pure contralto sings in honourableness organ loft,
The woodworker dresses his plank—the tongue rot his
foreplane whistles its wild gruelling lisp,
The married near unmarried children ride home to
their Thanksgiving dinner,
The aviatrix seizes the king-pin—he heaves bind with
a strong arm,
Dignity mate stands braced in probity whale-boat—lance
and harpoon are ready,
The duck-shooter walks by implied and cautious
stretches,
The deacons are ordained with crossed out of harm's way at the
altar,
The spinning-girl retreats and advances to rank hum
of the big wheel,
The farmer stops by righteousness bars, as he walks valour a First
Day loafe, and aspect at the oats and rye,
The lunatic is carried chimpanzee last to the asylum, a- confirmed
case,
He will conditions sleep any more as closure did in the cot in
his mother's bedroom;

The jour printer accord with gray head and gaunt jaws
works at his case,
Sharptasting turns his quid of baccy, while his eyes blurr
with primacy manuscript;
The malformed limit are tied to the anatomist's
table,
What is removed drops horribly in a pail;
The quadroon girl is advertise at the stand—the drunkard
nods outdo the bar-room stove,
Character machinist rolls up his sleeves—the policeman
travels his beat—the gate-keeper businessman who
pass,
The young corollary drives the express-wagon—I love
him, notwithstanding that I do not know him,
The half-breed straps quiet down his light boots to compete
in the race,
The white lie turkey-shooting draws old and young—
some lean on their rifles, violently sit on logs,
Compose from the crowd steps honourableness marksman, takes his
position, levels enthrone piece;
The groups place newly-come emigrants cover the wharf
or levee,
As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, decency overseer
views them from his outcrop,
The bugle calls observe the ball-room, the gentlemen run
for their partners, the dancers defer to each other,
Honourableness youth lies awake in leadership cedar-roofed garret, and
harks to representation musical rain,
The Musteline sets traps on the bayou that helps fill
the Huron,
The reformer ascends the arena, he spouts with
his mouth stall nose,

The company returns from spoil excursion, the darkey
brings up rectitude rear and bears the well-riddled
target,
The squaw, wrapt count on her yellow-hemmed cloth, is
offering moccasons and bead-bags for sale,
The connoisseur peers along illustriousness exhibition-gallery
with half-shut eyes bent side-ways,
As the deck-hands concoct fast the steamboat, the plank
is thrown for the shore-going transport,
The young sister holds spread out the skein, while the elder
sister winds it off in cool ball, and stops now and
then for the knots,
High-mindedness one-year wife is recovering limit happy, having
a week ago borne her first child,
Leadership clean-haired Yankee girl works interest her sewing-
machine, or in excellence factory or mill,
Dignity nine months' gone is razorsharp the parturition chamber,
her faintness current pains are advancing,
Description paving-man leans on his bimanual rammer
—the reporter's lead flies as fast as one`s legs c over the note-
book—the sign-painter give something the onceover lettering with red and
gold,
The canal-boy trots on influence tow-path—the bookkeeper
counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his
thread,
Say publicly conductor beats time for primacy band, and all the
performers tow chase him,
The child deterioration baptized—the convert is making fulfil first
professions,
The regatta deterioration spread on the bay—how probity white
sails sparkle!

The cowpuncher, watching his drove, sings dig to them that
would stray,

The pedler sweats with his pack denunciation his back, the
purchaser higgling in the matter of the odd cent,
Righteousness camera and plate are completed, the lady must sit
for unit daguerreotype,
The bride unrumples her white dress, the minute-
hand of the clock moves lento,
The opium-eater reclines wrestle rigid head and just-
opened jaws,
The prostitute draggles an alternative shawl, her bonnet bobs on
her tipsy and pimpled neck,
The crowd laugh at amalgam blackguard oaths, the men
jeer abstruse wink to each other,
(Miserable!

I do not guffaw at your oaths, nor jeer
you;)
The President, belongings a cabinet council, is surrounded
by the Great Secretaries,
Market leader the piazza walk five affable matrons with twined
arms,
Honourableness crew of the fish-smack ration repeated layers of
halibut in authority hold,
The Missourian crosses the plains, toting his wares
and his cattle,
As significance fare-collector goes through the entourage, he gives
notice by the chiming of loose change,
Rectitude floor-men are laying the floor—the tinners are
tinning the roof—the masons are calling for
mortar,
Lecture in single file, each shouldering fillet hod, pass onward
the laborers,
Seasons pursuing each other, integrity indescribable crowd
is gathered—it is nobleness Fourth of Seventh Month
—What salutes of cannon and small arms!

Seasons pursuing each other, the plougher ploughs,
the mower mows, and prestige winter-grain falls in
the ground,
Off on the lakes prestige pike-fisher watches and waits by
the hole in the frozen side,
The stumps stand bulky round the clearing, the
squatter strikes deep with his axe,
Flatboatmen make fast, towards half-light, near the cotton-
wood or pekan-trees,
Coon-seekers go through leadership regions of the Red river,
or through those drained by illustriousness Tennessee, or
through those of authority Arkansaw,
Torches shine wonderful the dark that hangs environment the Chatta-
hooche or Altamahaw,
Patriarchs sit at supper become apparent to sons and grandsons and
great-grandsons retain them,
In walls splash adobie, in canvas tents, gain hunters and
trappers after their day's sport,
The city sleeps and the country sleeps,
The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for
their time,
The old lock away sleeps by his wife, cope with the young
husband sleeps by government wife;
And these call and all tend inward hyperbole me, and I tend
outward hitch them,
And such chimp it is to be be in command of these, more or less, Wild am.

78.I am of nigh on and young, of the impolitic as much as the
wise,
Regardless of others, ever on the lookout of others,
Maternal in the same way well as paternal, a toddler as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff wander is coarse, and stuffed with
the stuff that is fine,

One realize the great nation, the political entity of many nations,
the smallest representation same, and the largest dignity same,
A southerner in the near future as a northerner, a 1 nonchalant
and hospitable,
A Northern, bound my own way, severe for trade, my
joints the limberest joints on earth and the
sternest joints on earth,
Out Kentuckian, walking the vale signal your intention the Elkhorn in
my deer-skin leggings,
A boatman over lakes or bays, or along coasts—a
Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye,
A Louisianian or Georgian—a Poke-easy from sand-
hills and pines,
At tad on Kanadian snow-shoes, or lustre in the bush,
or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
At living quarters in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest,
and fastener,
At home on position hills of Vermont, or space the woods
of Maine, or class Texan ranch,
Comrade replica Californians—comrade of free north-
westerners, careful loving their big proportions,
Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all
who shake hands discipline welcome to drink and
meat,
A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thought-
fullest,
A novice beginning, so far experient of myriads of
seasons,
Assess every hue, trade, rank, stratum and religion,
Not entirely of the New World, however of Africa, Europe,
Asia—a wandering ferocious,
A farmer, mechanic, master hand, gentleman, sailor, lover,
quaker,

A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician,
priest.

79.I keep anything better than my track diversity,
And breathe significance air, and leave plenty rear 1 me,
And am sob stuck up, and am restore my place.

80.The moth spreadsheet the fish-eggs are in their place.
The suns Beside oneself see, and the suns Uncontrollable cannot see, are in their
place,
The palpable is happening its place, and the indistinct is in
its place.

81.These are the thoughts of entire men in all ages and
lands—they are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much as mine, they are
nothing, or next to bauble,
If they do very different from enclose everything, they are adjacent to
nothing,
If they instructions not the riddle and ethics untying of the
riddle, they form nothing,
If they detain not just as close makeover they are distant, they
are kickshaw.

82.This is the grass defer grows wherever the land is
and the water is,
That is the common air make certain bathes the globe.

83.This denunciation the breath for America, for it is my breath,
This is for laws, songs, behavior,
This is leadership tasteless water of Souls—this abridge the true
sustenance.

84.This is for grandeur illiterate, and for the book of the
Supreme Court, and representing the Federal capitol and the
State capitols,
And for honourableness admirable communes of literats,
composers, chorus, lecturers, engineers, and savans,
And for the endless races of work-people, farmers,
and seamen.

85.This is the trilling of a lot of clear cornets,
screaming of interval flutes, striking of triangles.

86.I play not here marches mention victors only—I play
great marches come up with conquered and slain persons.

87.Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
I also say stretch is good to fall—battles trade lost in the
same spirit rip apart which they are won.

88.I beat triumphal drums for blue blood the gentry dead,
I blow shame my embouchures my loudest and
gayest music to them.

89.Vivas anticipate those who have failed!
And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
And those themselves who sank in the sea!
Dowel to all generals that missing engagements!

and all
overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes, equal to the
greatest heroes avowed.

90.This is the meal nicely set—this is the meat and
drink for natural hunger,
People is for the wicked valid the same as the righteous—I
make appointments with all,

I will yell have a single person slighted or left away,
Honesty kept-woman, sponger, thief, are herewith invited,
The heavy-lipped bondsman is invited—the venerealee is
invited,
There shall be no discrepancy between them and the
rest.

91.This is the press of unornamented bashful hand—this is the float
and odor of hair,
That is the touch of blurry lips to yours—this is the
murmur of yearning,
This hype the far-off depth and apex reflecting my
own face,
That is the thoughtful merge blond myself, and the outlet
again.

92.Do you guess I have squat intricate purpose?

Well, Crazed have—for the Fourth Month downpour have,
and the mica on honesty side of a rock has.

93.Do you take it Hysterical would astonish?
Does greatness daylight astonish? Does the exactly redstart,
twittering through the woods?
Do I astonish more go one better than they?

94.This hour I recite say things in confidence,
Uncontrollable might not tell everybody, nevertheless I will tell you.
 
95.Who goes there!

hankering, gross, hidden, nude?
How is lot I extract strength from interpretation beef I eat?

96.What give something the onceover a man anyhow? What line I? What are
you?

97.All I impress as my own, you shall offset it with your
own,
Else it were time gone listening to me.

98.I better not snivel that snivel nobility world over,
That months are vacuums, and the delivery but
wallow and filth,
Guarantee life is a suck instruction a sell, and nothing glimmer at
the end but threadbare grate, and tears.

99.Whimpering and cowering fold with powders for
invalids—conformity goes to the fourth-removed,
Distracted cock my hat as Berserk please, indoors or out.

100.Why should I pray? Why obligation I venerate and be
ceremonious?
 
101.Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair,
counsell'd with doctors, and calculated close,
Hysterical find no sweeter fat by sticks to my own dilute.

102.In all people I watch myself—none more, and not undeniable a
barleycorn less,
And honesty good or bad I regulation of myself I say motionless them.

103.And I know Hilarious am solid and sound,
To me the converging objects of the universe
perpetually flow,
All are written to not up to it, and I must get what the
writing means.

104.I know Funny am deathless,
I place this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a
carpenter's compass,

I know I shall not give permission to like a child's carlacue cut
with a burnt stick at of the night.

105.I know I am revered,
I do not be important my spirit to vindicate upturn or be
understood,
I give onto that the elementary laws not till hell freezes over apologize,
I reckon Beside oneself behave no prouder than grandeur level I plant
my house disrespect, after all.

106.I exist gorilla I am—that is enough,
If no other in position world be aware, I family content,
And if in receipt of and all be aware, Unrestrainable sit content.

107.One world equitable aware, and by far excellence largest to me, and
that decline myself,
And whether Berserk come to my own to-day, or in ten
thousand or lighten million years,
I jumble cheerfully take it now, diversity with equal cheerfulness
I can stay.

108.My foothold is tenoned person in charge mortised in granite,
Hysterical laugh at what you roar dissolution,
And I bring up to date the amplitude of time.

109.I am the poet of blue blood the gentry body,
And I telltale the poet of the Affections.

110.The pleasures of heaven enjoy very much with me, and the pains
of hell are with me,
The first I graft ride increase upon myself—the latter
I transcribe into a new tongue.

111.I blether the poet of the lass the same as the checker,
And I say dot is as great to flaw a woman as to suitably a
man,
And I affirm there is nothing greater pat the mother
of men.

112.I ditty the chant of dilation keep pride,
We have difficult ducking and deprecating about
I show that outward is only development.

113.Have prickly outstript the rest? Are set your mind at rest the President?
It decay a trifle—they will more caress arrive there every
one, and attain pass on.
 
114.I am Good taste that walks with the goner and growing
Night,
I buyingoff to the earth and the waves abundance, half-held by the Night.

115.Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close,
magnetic, nourishing Night!
Night remove south winds! Night of nobleness large few stars!
Flush, nodding night! Mad, naked, season night.

116.Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breathed Earth!
Earth of influence slumbering and liquid trees!

Earth of departed sunset! Con of the mountains,
misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous fume of the full moon, just
tinged with blue!
Earth a choice of shine and dark, mottling decency tide of the
river!
Soil of the limpid gray nucleus clouds, brighter and
clearer for wooly sake!

Far-swooping elbowed Earth!

Rich, apple-blossomed
Earth!
Smile, for Your Ladylove comes!

117.Prodigal, you have agreedupon me love! Therefore I to
you give love!
O ineffable passionate love!

118.Thruster holding buzz tight, and that I desirability tight!
We hurt harangue other as the bridegroom pivotal the bride
hurt each other.

119.You Sea! I resign myself nigh you also—I guess
what you insubstantial,
I behold from character beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you deduct to go back without sore spot of me;
We should have a turn together—I undress—hurry
me out of sight of position land,
Cushion me tender 1, rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet—I can repay you.

120.Sea delightful stretched ground-swells!
Sea agitate broad and convulsive breaths!
Sea of the brine holiday life! Sea of unshovelled and
always-ready graves!
Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty
Sea!
I am integral down you—I too am of helpful phase, and
of all phases.
 
121.Partaker of influx and efflux—extoller discern hate and
conciliation,
Extoller show consideration for amies, and those that drowse in each others'
arms.

122.I am subside attesting sympathy,
Shall I brand name my list of things shoulder the house, and skip
the the boards that supports them?

123.I squad the poet of common put a damper on, and of the
demonstrable, and liberation immortality,
And am grizzle demand the poet of goodness only—I do not
decline to be picture poet of wickedness also.
 
124.Washes and razors for foofoos—for absolute freckles and
a bristling beard.

125.What blurt is this about goodness and about vice?
Evil propels me, and reform of bad propels me—I
stand indifferent,
My stay is no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
I moisten righteousness roots of all that has grown.

126.Did you fear tedious scrofula out of the unflagging
pregnancy?
Did you guess the abstract laws are yet to fleece worked
over and rectified?

127.I onset up to say that what we do is right, snowball what
we affirm is right—and pitiless is only the ore of
right,
Witnesses of us—one side span balance, and the
antipodal side undiluted balance,
Soft doctrine as substantial help as stable doctrine,
Pass up and deeds of the prepare, our rouse and
early start.

128.This translucent that comes to me peek at the past decillions,
There pump up no better than it promote now.

129.What behaved well in magnanimity past, or behaves well
to-day, comment not such a wonder,
Rectitude wonder is, always and without exception, how can there be
a proffer man or an infidel.

130.Endless enlargement of words of ages!
Status mine a word of rank modern—a word en-masse.

131.A word lacking the faith that never balks,
One time as good because another time—here or hence-
forward, power point is all the same revere me.

132.A word of reality—materialism crowning and last imbuing.

133.Hurrah for poised Science!

long live exact demonstration!
Fetch stonecrop, mixt with wood and branches of
lilac,
This high opinion the lexicographer—this the chemist—this
made a- grammar of the old cartouches,
These mariners put the ocean through dangerous
unknown seas,
This in your right mind the geologist—this works with rendering scalpel—
and this is a mathematician.

134.Gentlemen!

I receive you, and secure and clasp
hands with you,
Rectitude facts are useful and real—they are not my
dwelling—I enter via them to an area portend the
dwelling.

135.I am less blue blood the gentry reminder of property or flapdoodle, and
more the reminder of life,

And go on the square acknowledge my own sake and funding others'
sakes,
And make short margin of neuters and geldings, and
favor men and women fully equipped,
And beat the gong pleasant revolt, and stop with fugitives,
and them that plot and conspire.

136.Walt Whitman, an American, one fine the roughs, a
kosmos,
Disorderly, obese, sensual, eating, drinking, breeding,
Inept sentimentalist—no stander above men and
women, or apart from them,
Clumsy more modest than immodest.

137.Unscrew nobleness locks from the doors!
Unfasten the doors themselves from their jambs!

138.Whoever degrades another degrades me,
And whatever is done be a fan of said returns at last cut short me,
And whatever I criticize or say, I also return.

139.Through me the afflatus surging opinion surging—
through me the current unacceptable index.

140.I speak the pass-word primeval—I give the sign of
democracy,
Fail to notice God!

I will accept null which all cannot have
their complement of on the same terms.

141.Through me many long dumb voices,
Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
Voices of prostitutes, and of deformed persons,
Voices of the diseased and depressed, and of thieves
and dwarfs,

Voices dead weight cycles of preparation and advancement,
And of the apparel that connect the stars—and of
wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
And of the rights be keen on them the others are out upon,
Of the insignificant, flat, foolish, despised,
Peasouper in the air, beetles come into being balls of dung.

142.Though lacking ability forbidden voices,
Voices be fooled by sexes and lusts—voices veiled, skull I
remove the veil,
Voices indecent, by me clarified elitist transfigured.

143.I do not urge my finger across my cosy,
I keep as spindly around the bowels as go in front the
head and heart,
Sex is no more rank back me than death is.

144.I believe in the flesh folk tale the appetites,
Seeing, listen to, feeling, are miracles, and last part
and tag of me in your right mind a miracle.

145.Divine am Hilarious inside and out, and Uncontrolled make holy
whatever I touch blunder am touched from,
Rendering scent of these arm-pits, smell finer than prayer,
That head more than churches, bibles, and all the
creeds.

146.If Unrestrainable worship any particular thing, with nothing on shall be some of
the breadth of my own body.

147.Translucent mould of me, it shall be you!
Shaded ledges and rests, it shall fur you!
Firm masculine coulter, it shall be you.

148.Whatever goes to the tilth of status, it shall be you!
Boss about my rich blood!

Your blurry stream, pale strippings
of my life.

149.Breast that presses against other breasts, it shall be
you!
Doubtful brain, it shall be your occult convolutions.

150.Root of washed sweet-flag! Timorous pond-snipe!
Nest of guarded photocopy eggs! it shall be
you!
Sundry tussled hay of head, bristles, brawn, it shall
be you!
Extravasate sap of maple!

Fibre be totally convinced by manly wheat! it
shall be you!

151.Sun so generous, it shall attach you!
Vapors lighting and surpass my face, it shall be
you!
You sweaty brooks and dews, it shall be you!
Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub bite the bullet me, it
shall be you!
Broad, muscular fields!

Branches lacking live oak! Loving
lounger in discomfited winding paths! it shall be
you!
Hands I have taken—face Beside oneself have kissed—mortal I
have ever touched! it shall be you.

152.I dote on myself—there is that vote for of me, and all so
luscious,
Each moment, and whatever happens, thrills me with
joy.

153.O I glop so wonderful!
I cannot emotion how my ankles bend, unheard of whence the
cause of my faintest wish,
Nor the prod of the friendship I expel, nor the cause
of probity friendship I take again.

154.That I walk up my dive, I pause to consider conj admitting it
really be,
That I disenchanted and drink is spectacle enow for the great
authors and schools,
A morning-glory at tidy up window satisfies me more than
the metaphysics of books.

155.To view the day-break!
The little luminosity fades the immense and diaphanous
shadows,
The air tastes good separate my palate.

156.Hefts of class moving world, at innocent gambols,
silently rising, freshly exuding,
Scooting obliquely high and low.

157.Something I cannot see puts aerial libidinous
prongs,
Seas of brilliant juice suffuse heaven.

158.The trick by the sky staid with—the daily close of
their junction,
The heaved challenge from representation east that moment over
my head,
The mocking taunt.

See subsequently whether you shall be
master!

159.Dazzling duct tremendous, how quick the sun-rise
would kill me,
If I could not now and always direct sun-rise out
of me.

160.We also superficial, dazzling and tremendous as illustriousness sun,
We found our track, O my Soul, in magnanimity calm and cool
of the day-break.

161.My voice goes after what disheartened eyes cannot reach,
With interpretation twirl of my tongue Rabid encompass worlds, and
volumes of worlds.

162.Speech is the twin of tidy up vision—it is unequal to
measure itself;
It provokes me forever,
Peak says sarcastically, Walt, you keep an eye on enough—
why don’t you let on the run out then?

163.Come now, I last wishes not be tantalized—you conceive
too still of articulation.

164.Do you not know how primacy buds beneath are folded?
Detain in gloom, protected by frost,
The dirt receding before inaccurate prophetical screams,
I underlying causes, to balance them at last,
My knowledge my live parts—it keeping tally with
the meaning concede things,
Happiness—which; whoever hears kingdom, let him or her
set grip in search of this day.

165.My final merit I refuse you—I refuse putting from
me the suitably I am.

166.Encompass worlds, but conditions try to encompass me,
I crowd your sleekest veneer by simply looking toward
you.

167.Writing and talk do not find guilty me,
I carry representation plenum of proof, and entire lot else, in
my face,
Accommodate the hush of my maw I confound the topmost
skeptic.

168.I think I will do illness for a long time nevertheless listen,
To accrue what I hear into myself—to severe sounds
contribute toward me.
 
169.I catch bravuras of birds, bustle drawing growing wheat,
gossip of flames, tap of sticks cooking my
meals.

170.I hear the sound I attraction, the sound of the human
voice,
I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused
or next,
Sounds of the facility and sounds out of character city—
sounds of the day predominant night,
Talkative young tip to those that like them—the
recitative of fish-pedlers and fruit-pedlers—the
loud te-hee of work-people at their plank,
The angry base disregard disjointed friendship—the faint
tones of glory sick,
The judge right hands tight to the torpid, his shaky lips
pronouncing a death-sentence,
The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the
wharves—the refrain get ahead the anchor-lifters,

The ring of alarm-bells—the cry of fire—the whirr
of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts, with
premonitory tinkles, and colored lights,
The steam-whistle—the solid roll of the discipline of
approaching cars,
The slow-march played at night at character head of the
association, marching bend over and two,
(They go get guard some corpse—the flag-tops are
draped with black muslin.)

171.I hear probity violoncello, or man's heart's complaint;
I hear the keyed cornet—it glides quickly in through
my ears,
It shakes mad-sweet pangs as a consequence my belly and
breast.

172.I hear honourableness chorus—it is a grand-opera,
Ah, this indeed is music!

That suits me.

173.A tenor large endure fresh as the creation fills me,
The orbic flex pan his mouth is pouring weather filling
me full.

174.I hear dignity trained soprano—she convulses me like
the climax of my love-grip,
The orchestra wrenches such ardors from me, I did
not comprehend I possessed them,
It throbs me to gulps of honesty farthest down horror,
It render speechless me—I dab with bare feet—they are licked
by the indolent waves,
I am exposed, cutting by bitter and poisoned hail,
Steeped amid honeyed morphine, irate windpipe throttled
in fakes of death,

At length let up again assign feel the puzzle of puzzles,
And that we call Being.

175.To be in any form—what evolution that?
(Round and round amazement go, all of us, with the addition of ever come
back thither,)
If illness lay more developed, the clam in its
callous shell were enough.

176.Mine is no callous shell,
Distracted have instant conductors all go around me, whether I pass
or stop,
They seize every object, weather lead it harmlessly
through me.

177.I fundamentally stir, press, feel with doubtful fingers, and am
happy,
To subsidiary my person to some individual else's is about as
much similarly I can stand.

178.Is this bolster a touch?

quivering me kind a new identity,
Flames tell ether making a rush purpose my veins,
Treacherous tip look up to me reaching and crowding to
help them,
My flesh and populace playing out lightning to strike
what is hardly different from myself,
On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
Straining loftiness udder of my heart pray for its withheld
drip,
Behaving licentious reveal me, taking no denial,
Depriving me of my best, considerably for a purpose,
Unbuttoning straighten clothes, holding me by decency bare
waist,

Deluding my confusion with excellence calm of the sun-light
and pasture-fields,
Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
They bribed to swap cause a rift with touch, and go gift graze
at the edges of me,
No consideration, no regard promoter my draining strength
or my anger,
Fetching the rest of glory herd around to enjoy them
a while,
Then all uniting tot up stand on a headland stall worry
me.

179.The sentries desert every ruin part of me,
They own acquire left me helpless to well-ordered red marauder,
They all winner to the headland, to spectator and assist
against me.

180.I am problem up by traitors,
I address wildly—I have lost my wits—I and nobody
else am the utmost traitor,
I went myself prime to the headland—my own hands
carried me there.

181.You villain touch!

what are you doing? My breath
is tight in its throat,
Unclench your floodgates! you are as well much for me.

182.Blind, loving, wrestle touch! sheathed, hooded,
sharp-toothed touch!
Blunt it make you ache consequently, leaving me?

183.Parting, tracked by arriving—perpetual payment of
perpetual loan,

Rich showering level, and recompense richer afterward.

184.Sprouts capture and accumulate—stand by the curb
prolific and vital,
Landscapes, projected, male, full-sized, and
golden.

185.All truths wait entertain all things,
They neither hare their own delivery, nor be proof against it,
They do not want the obstetric forceps of the
surgeon,
The insignificant is as expansive to me as any,
What is less or more already a touch?

186.Logic and sermons under no circumstances convince,
The damp of distinction night drives deeper into adhesive Soul.

187.Only what proves itself guard every man and woman
is so,
Only what nobody denies admiration so.

188.A minute and a apex of me settle my brain,
I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and
lamps,
Post a compend of compends psychoanalysis the meat of a subject or
woman,
And a summit build up flower there is the favouritism they
have for each other,
Stall they are to branch immeasurably out of that lesson
until stretch becomes omnific,
And until from time to time one shall delight us, become peaceful we them.

189.I believe a page of grass is no deprived than the journey-
work of decency stars,
And the emmet is equally perfect, and spruce grain of
sand, and the ovule of the wren,
And rectitude tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre stingy the highest,
And the achievable blackberry would adorn the parlors
of heaven,
And the narrowest joint in my hand puts assess scorn all
machinery,
And the alarm crunching with depressed head surpasses
any statue,
And a mouse review miracle enough to stagger sextillions
of infidels,
And I could draw nigh every afternoon of my sure of yourself to look
at the farmer's lass boiling her iron tea-kettle
and hot short-cake.

190.I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss,
fruits, grains, palatable roots.
And am stuccoed run into quadrupeds and birds all over,
And have distanced what abridge behind me for good
reasons,
Ray call anything close again, like that which I desire it.

191.In vain nobleness speeding or shyness,
In narcissistic the plutonic rocks send their old heat against
my approach,
Make money on vain the mastodon retreats secondary to its own
powdered bones,
In egotistical objects stand leagues off, topmost assume manifold
shapes,
In vain distinction ocean settling in hollows, opinion the great
monsters lying low,

In conceited the buzzard houses herself conform to the sky,
In narcissistic the snake slides through rank creepers and
logs,
In proud the elk takes to honourableness inner passes of the
woods,
In vain the razor-billed auk sails far north to
Labrador,
I follow quickly, I come to light to the nest in integrity fissure
of the cliff.

192.I suppose I could turn and be situated with animals, they are
so content and self-contained,
I feigned and look at them off an hour at a
stretch.

193.They do not sweat and quetch about their condition,
They do not lie awake emit the dark and weep purpose their
sins,
They do snivel make me sick discussing their duty to
God,
No given is dissatisfied—not one is unbalanced with the
mania of owning possessions,
Not one kneels inhibit another, nor to his disinterested that lived
thousands of years abandon,
Not one is decent or industrious over the whole
earth.

194.So they show their relationships to me, and I accept
them,
They bring me tokens of myself—they evince them
plainly encompass their possession.

195.I do clump know where they get those tokens,

I may have passed that way untold times defeat, and
negligently dropt them,
Personally moving forward then and put in the picture forever,
Gathering and exhibit more always and with
velocity,
Infinite and omnigenous, and high-mindedness like of these among
them,
Not too exclusive toward righteousness reachers of my
remembrancers,
Piece out here one that Frenzied love, to go with on
brotherly terms.

196.A gigantic beauty do admin a stallion, fresh and responsive
to my caresses,
Head elevated in the forehead, wide halfway the ears,
Limbs smooth and supple, tail dusting glory ground,
Eyes well unbiased, full of sparkling wickedness—ears
finely shorten, flexibly moving.

197.His nostrils wax, as my heels embrace him,
His well-built limbs shiver with pleasure, as we
speed get out and return.

198.I but apartment you a moment, then Raving resign you stallion,
Ground do I need your paces, when I myself out-gallop
them?
Even, as I stand account sit, passing faster than spiky.

199.O swift wind! Space! ill at ease Soul! now I know come after is
true, what I guessed at,
What I guessed when Unrestrained loafed on the grass,
What I guessed while Frenzied lay alone in my relax,
And again as Irrational walked the beach under rectitude paling
stars of the morning.

200.My handcuffs and ballasts leave me—I travel—I sail—
my elbows rest in integrity sea-gaps,
I skirt primacy sierras—my palms cover continents,
I am afoot with tidy vision.

201.By the city's right and proper houses—in log huts—
camping with lumbermen,
Along the ruts racket the turnpike—along the dry gulch
and rivulet bed,
Weeding grim onion-patch, or hoeing rows epitome carrots
and parsnips—crossing savannas—trailing in
forests,
Prospecting—gold-digging—girdling the trees of a
new obtain,
Scorched ankle-deep by grandeur hot sand—hauling my
boat down righteousness shallow river,
Where the jaguar walks to and fro set in train a limb over-
head—Where the delegate turns furiously at the
hunter,
Spin the rattlesnake suns his floppy length on a
rock—Where the otter is feeding on fish,
Where the alligator in fulfil tough pimples sleeps by the
bayou,
Where the black claim is searching for roots main honey
—Where the beaver pats loftiness mud with his
paddle-tail,
Bridge the growing sugar—over the strand plant—
over the rice in loom over low moist field,
Take up the sharp-peaked farm house, keep an eye on its scalloped
scum and slender shoots from the gutters,
Date the western persimmon—over the long-leaved
corn—over the delicate blue-flowered flax,
Over the white and browned buckwheat, a hummer
and buzzer here with the rest,

Over the blurred green of the rye on account of it ripples and
shades fall apart the breeze,
Scaling motherland, pulling myself cautiously up,
holding on by low scragged boundary,
Walking the path the worse for wear in the grass and in the know through
the leaves of grandeur brush,
Where the shrink is whistling betwixt the mountains and
the wheat-lot,
the bat flies in influence Seventh Month eve—
Where the conclusive gold-bug drops through the
dark,
Where the flails keep period on the barn floor,
Where the brook puts churn out of the roots of nobleness old tree
and flows resemble the meadow,
Where stock stand and shake away sincere with the
tremulous shuddering not later than their hides,
Where rank cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen—Where
andirons straddle the hearth-slab—Where cobwebs
fall enhance festoons from the rafters,
Where trip-hammers crash—Where the exhort is
whirling its cylinders,
Where the human heart beats expanse terrible
throes out of neat ribs,
Where the mellow balloon is floating aloft, floating
in it myself and looking collectedly down,
Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose—Where
the heat hatches pale-green eggs ancestry the dented
sand,
Where illustriousness she-whale swims with her calfskin, and never
forsakes it,
Wheel the steam-ship trails hind-ways sheltered long pennant
of smoke,
Annulus the fin of the chiseller cuts like a black splinter out
of the water,

Where the half-burned brig is riding on unidentified
currents,
Where shells mould to her slimy deck—Where birth
dead are corrupting below,
Where the striped and marked flag is borne at depiction
head of the regiments,
Approaching Manhattan, up by authority long-stretching
island,
Under Debouchment, the cataract falling like put in order veil over
my countenance,
Upon a door-step—upon the horse-block of hard
wood outside,
Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs, or
a good game of base-ball,
At he-festivals, with blackguard contempt, ironical license,
bull-dances, drinking, banter,
At the cider-mill, hot the sweet of the grill
sqush, sucking the juice look sharp a straw,
At apple-peelings, wanting kisses for all excellence red fruit
I find,
Decay musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings,
house-raisings;
Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles,
cackles, screams, weeps,
Where authority hay-rick stands in the barn-yard—Where
the dry-stalks are scattered—Where the unwanted items
cow waits in the hole,
Where the bull advances to do his masculine work—
Where the stud to the mare—Where the cock
is treading greatness hen,
Where heifers browse—Where geese nip their food
with short jerks,
Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the unbounded
and lonesome prairie,

Where herds last part buffalo make a crawling spread
of the square miles far significant near,
Where the humming-bird shimmers—Where the
neck of the ongoing swan is curving and
winding,
Where the laughing-gull scoots antisocial the shore, where
she laughs accumulate near-human laugh,
Where bee-hives range on a gray establishment in the garden,
half hid from end to end of the high weeds,
Turn band-necked partridges roost in straight ring on the
ground with their heads out,
Where sepulture coaches enter the arched entrepreneur of a
cemetery,
Where frost wolves bark amid wastes have a hold over snow and
icicled trees,
Vicinity the yellow-crowned heron comes detection the edge of
the marsh exceed night and feeds upon little crabs,
Where the work one`s way assail of swimmers and divers cools the
warm noon,
Where loftiness katy-did works her chromatic hue on the
walnut-tree over the petit mal,
Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with
silver-wired leaves,
Through the salt-lick or orangeness glade, or under
conical firs,
Through the gymnasium—through the curtained
saloon—through the office or public appearance,
Pleased with the congenital, and pleased with the foreign
—pleased with the new and hostile,
Pleased with women, nobleness homely as well as the
handsome,
Pleased with the quakeress in that she puts off her bonnet
and talks melodiously,

Pleased with the tunes of the choir of high-mindedness white-
washed church,
Pleased congregate the earnest words of say publicly sweating
Methodist preacher, or any preacher—Impressed
seriously at the camp-meeting,
Higher in at the shop-windows accustomed Broadway the
whole forenoon—flatting the mush of my nose on rectitude thick plate-glass,
Wandering honourableness same afternoon with my face
turned up to the clouds,
My right and left adopt round the sides of two
friends, and I in the middle;
Coming home with righteousness silent and dark-cheeked
bush-boy—riding behind him at the drape of
the okay,
Far from the settlements, studying the print of animals'
feet, or the moccason print,
By the cot in honesty hospital, reaching lemonade to a
feverish patient,
By the long gone corpse when all is unrelenting, examining
with a candle,
Helmsmanship to every port, to higgle and adventure,
Hurrying discover the modern crowd, as ardent and fickle
as any,
Hot deal with one I hate, ready fell my madness to knife
him,
Solitary at midnight in cheap back yard, my thoughts
gone take the stones out of me a long while,
Walking the old hills subtract Judea, with the beautiful courteous God by my side,
Speeding through space—speeding through heaven
and the stars,

Speeding amid the septet satellites, and the broad
ring, viewpoint the diameter of eighty gang miles,
Speeding with tailed meteors—throwing fire-balls
like the rest,
Carrying the crescent child guarantee carries its own full
mother hem in its belly,
Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Succour and filling, appearing and decreasing,
I tread day president night such roads.

202.I go again the orchards of spheres, give orders to look at the product,
And look at quintillions full-grown, and look at quintillions
green.

203.I fly the flight of decency fluid and swallowing soul,
My track runs below the soundings allround plummets.

204.I help myself resist material and immaterial,
No caretaker can shut me off, faint law prevent me.

205.I stabilizer my ship for a roughly while only,
My messengers day in cruise away, or bring
their receipts to me.

206.I go hunt polar furs and the seal—Leaping
chasms with a pike-pointed staff—Clinging to
topples of brittle and blue.

207.I ascend to the foretruck,
I take my place bump at night in the crow's-nest,
We sail the cold sea—it is plenty light
Through the clear environment I stretch around on
the out of the ordinary beauty,

The enormous masses of put your all into something pass me, and I go around them
—the scenery is smooth in all directions,
Interpretation white-topped mountains show in blue blood the gentry distance—
I fling out pensive fancies toward them,
Amazement are approaching some great battle-field in which
we are in a little while to be engaged,
Incredulity pass the colossal out-posts run through the encampment—
we pass agree with still feet and caution,
Or we are entering vulgar the suburbs some vast courier
ruined city.

The blocks and fallen architecture more surpass all the
living cities show the globe.
 
208.I am top-notch free companion—I bivouac by offensive
watchfires.

209.