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Page 15
... North - east , the vast valley of the Mississippi , and the Southern States , We confer on equal terms with each of the States , We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear , We say to ourselves , Remember , fear not ...
... North - east , the vast valley of the Mississippi , and the Southern States , We confer on equal terms with each of the States , We make trial of ourselves and invite men and women to hear , We say to ourselves , Remember , fear not ...
Page 16
... north or inland , A river man , or a man of the woods or of any farm - life of these States or of the coast , or the lakes or Kanada , Me wherever my life is lived , O to be self - balanced for contingen- cies , To confront night ...
... north or inland , A river man , or a man of the woods or of any farm - life of these States or of the coast , or the lakes or Kanada , Me wherever my life is lived , O to be self - balanced for contingen- cies , To confront night ...
Page 19
... north and south , with the isthmus between . See , vast trackless spaces , As in a dream they change , they swiftly fill , Countless masses debouch upon them , They are now cover'd with the foremost people , arts , institutions , known ...
... north and south , with the isthmus between . See , vast trackless spaces , As in a dream they change , they swiftly fill , Countless masses debouch upon them , They are now cover'd with the foremost people , arts , institutions , known ...
Page 20
... North , Make welcome for them everywhere , for they are your own off- spring , Surround them East and West , for they would surround you , And you precedents , connect lovingly with them , for they connect lovingly with you . I conn'd ...
... North , Make welcome for them everywhere , for they are your own off- spring , Surround them East and West , for they would surround you , And you precedents , connect lovingly with them , for they connect lovingly with you . I conn'd ...
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... north - west Columbia winds , and where the south- west Colorado winds ! Land of the eastern Chesapeake ! land of the Delaware ! Land of Ontario , Erie , Huron , Michigan ! Land of the Old Thirteen ! Massachusetts land ! land of Vermont ...
... north - west Columbia winds , and where the south- west Colorado winds ! Land of the eastern Chesapeake ! land of the Delaware ! Land of Ontario , Erie , Huron , Michigan ! Land of the Old Thirteen ! Massachusetts land ! land of Vermont ...
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Page 249 - WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Page 28 - A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Page 39 - I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.
Page 27 - Out of the dimness opposite equals advance, always substance and increase, always sex, Always a knit of identity, always distinction, always a breed of life.
Page 43 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Page 254 - Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Page 117 - I inhale great draughts of space, The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine. I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.
Page 254 - Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me, And the thought of death close-walking the other side of me, And I in the middle as with companions, and as holding the hands of companions, I fled forth to the hiding receiving night that talks not, Down to the shores of the water, the path by the swamp in the dimness, To the solemn shadowy cedars and ghostly pines so still.
Page 115 - Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am goodfortune, Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing; Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.
Page 72 - I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.