BB p5	1	Starting from fish‑shape Paumanok, where I was born.
BB p5	2	Well‑begotten, and raised [- {+bred+} -] by a perfect mother,
BB p5	3	After roaming [-various for {+through+}-] [- {+for+} -] [- {+various through+} -] many [- {+a+} -] [-year[-s-]{+s+}-] {+lands+} — lover of populous pavements. [- {+tallying all.+} -]
BB p5	4	Dweller in Mannahatta, [-the-] city of ships, my city [-—-]as[-over-]on southern savannas,
BB p5	5	Or inland {+away+} and [- {+far+} -]westward, {+far, far inland+} inflating my lungs with central Nebraskan air,
BB p5	6	Or a soldier camped, or [-marching bearing-] {+carrying+} my knapsack and gun [-—or a miner-] [- {+or lying wounded and bloody+} -] {+—or a miner in California+} [-in California-][- {+miner+} -]
BB p5	7	Or rude in my [- {+hunter's+} -] [- {+— for+} -] [- {+hunter's+} -] home in [-Kanuck-] {+Dakotah's+} woods— [-or a hunter, {+my diet meat,+}my drink {+from+}the spring-] [-my diet meat.-][- {+my diet meat.+} -]
BB p5	8	Or withdrawn to {+muse and+} to meditate in some deep recess.
BB p5	9	Far from the clank of crowds, {+intervals+} [-my extasy -] [- {+through [- {+my+} -] extasies +} -] passing, rapt and happy.
BB p5	10	[-Peering through vistas to destinies grand— pas- sionate with all the passions,-]
BB p5	11	Of [-hills,-][- {+fields,+} -]{+earths,+} rocks, Fifth Month flowers experienced— stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
BB p5	12	Aware of the fresh free‑given, the flowing Missouri— aware of mighty Niagara,
BB p5	13	Aware of the buffalo herds, the myriads grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong-breasted bull, [-I,-]{+I,+}[-apart,-]{+ [-h-]{+H+}aving noted studied+} [-blending-] the mocking‑bird's [-with the harsh-] and the [-mountain-][- {+mountain+} -]
BB p5	14	sea‑hawk
BB p5	15	Aware of the fresh free‑given, the flowing Missouri — [- {+& down to the Mexican sea+} -] —aware of the mighty Niagara,
BB p5	16	Aware of the buffalo herds, [-the myriads-] grazing the [- {+far far+} -] plains, [- {+ of +} -] the hirsute and strong‑breasted bull,
BB p5	17	Of earths rocks, Fifth‑Month flowers experienced— stars, rain, snow, my amaze,
BB p5	18	Having studied the mocking‑bird's tones, and the mountain hawks'
BB p5	19	And heard at dusk {+the unrivall'd one,+}[-from-]the hermit thrush from the swamp cedars
BB p5	20	Solitary, singing [- {+in the north+} -] in the west, I strike up [-for a-]{+for a new world+} [-new world-] [- {+wild [- {+fluent+} -] and free, my chants [- {+for my own+} -]+} -]
BB p5	21	[-Of-] {+With+} the mocking bird [-,-] {+'s+} {+tones+} and the harsh sea‑hawk, {+'s,+}
BB p5	22	[-Free, fresh, savage.-]
BB p5	23	FREE, fresh, savage,
BB p5	24	Fluent, luxuriant, self-content, fond of persons and places,
BB p5	25	Fond of fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,
BB p5	26	[-Fond of the sea—-]lusty-begotten and various,
BB p5	27	Boy of the Mannahatta, the city of ships, my city,
BB p5	28	Or raised inland, or of the south savannas,
BB p5	29	Or full-breath'd on Californian air, or [-Texan or-] {+central Nebraskan air+}
BB p5	30	[-Cuban air, -]
BB p5	31	Tallying, vocalizing all—resounding Niagara— resounding Missouri,
BB p5	32	Or rude in my home in Kanuck woods,
BB p5	33	Or wandering and hunting, my drink water, my diet meat,
BB p5	34	Or withdrawn to muse and mediate in some deep recess,
BB p5	35	Far from the clank of crowds, an interval passing, rapt and happy,
BB p5	36	Stars, vapor, snow, the hills, rocks, the Fifth Month flowers, my amaze, my love,
BB p6	37	Aware of the buffalo, the peace-herds, the bull, strong-breasted and hairy,
BB p6	38	Aware of the mocking-bird of the wilds at day- break,
BB p6	39	Solitary, singing in the west, I strike up for a new world.
BB p6	40	Victory, union, faith, identity, time, [-the Soul,-]{+¶+} your- self, the present and future lands, the indisso- luble compacts, [- {+¶+} -] riches, mystery,{+¶+} eternal progress, ? the kosmos,[- {+¶+} -] and the modern reports.
BB p6	41	This then is life,
BB p6	42	Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
BB p6	43	How curious! [-H-] {+h+} ow real!
BB p6	44	Underfoot the divine soil— [-O-] {+o+} verhead the sun.
BB p6	45	See, revolving, {+—+}
BB p6	46	The globe {+!+}— {+¶+}the ancestor-continents, away, grouped together,
BB p6	47	The present and future continents, north and south, with the isthmus between.
BB p6	48	See, vast, trackless spaces [-,-]{+;+}
BB p6	49	As in a dream, they change, they swiftly fill,
BB p6	50	Countless masses debouch upon them [-,-] [- {+;+} -] {+—+} {+the conquerors come;+}
BB p6	51	They are now covered with the foremost people, arts, institutions known.
BB p6	52	See projected, through time,
BB p6	53	For me, an audience interminable.
BB p7	54	With firm and regular step they wend—they never stop,
BB p7	55	Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions,
BB p7	56	One generation playing its part and passing on,
BB p7	57	[-And-] another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
BB p7	58	With faces turned sideways or backward toward me to listen,
BB p7	59	With eyes retrospective toward me.
BB p7	60	Americanos! [-Masters!-] {+Conquerors!+}
BB p7	61	Marches humanitarian! {+¶+}Foremost!
BB p7	62	Century marches! Libertad! Masses!
BB p7	63	For you [-a-] {+my+} programme of chants.
BB p7	64	Chants of the prairies,
BB p7	65	Chants of the < [-long-running Mississippi-] >, {+& down to the Mexican Sea+}
BB p7	66	Chants of < [-Ohio-] >, Indiana, < [-Illinois,-] > [-Wisconsin-] [- {+Missouri+} -], Iowa, {+—Wisconsin and Minnesota+} [-and Minnesota, {+and Kansas,+}-][- and-]
BB p7	67	chants {+going forth+} from {+Nebraska+} [-the central the-] {+the {+inland+} central Nebraska and Kansas+}
BB p7	68	¶ Thence, equi‑distant , [-launched forth-] {+shooting my pulses of fire+} [-for all-] {+to [-surround-] [- {+embrace+} -] [- {+represent+} -] {+vivify+} all+}
BB p7	69	Chants going forth from the center, from Kansas & thence equi‑distant
BB p7	70	Shooting [-my-] {+in+} pulses of [- {+ceaseless+} -] fire {+ceaseless+} to [- {+ceaslessly+} -] vivify all.
BB p7	71	[-Inland chants—chants of Kanzas,-]
BB p7	72	[-Chants away down to Mexico, and up north to-] [-Oregon[- {+ arkansas to Newfoundland +} -] —Kanadian chants,-]
BB p7	73	[-Chants of teeming and turbulent cities—chants of -] [-mechanics,-]
BB p7	74	{+Illinois+} [-Yankee-] [-c-]{+C+}hants— {+sweeping joyous along [-the West.-]+} [-Pennsylvanian chants—chants of-] Kentucky and Tennessee,
BB p7	75	Chants of dim-lit mines—chants of {+the+}mountain-tops, {+of Colorado, or Nevada+}
BB p7	76	Chants of sailors{+also+}—chants of the Eastern Sea and the Western Sea,
BB p7	77	[-Chants of the Mannahatta, the place of my dearest-] [-love, the place surrounded by hurried and-] [-sparkling currents,-]
BB p7	78	[-Health chants—joy chants—robust chants of young-] [-men,-]
BB p8	79	Chants [- {+including+} -] [-inclusive-] [- {+tolerating all+} -][-—wide reverberating chants,-] {+—from the {+inland+} centre+} {+the equi‑distant,+}
BB p8	80	[-Chants of the [- d block -] Many In One.-] [- {+including,+} -] {+embracing+} {+tolerating all.+}
BB p8	81	In the Year 80 of The States,
BB p8	82	My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from < [-this-] > [- {+American+} -] soil, this air,
BB p8	83	Born here of parents born < [-here,-] >
BB p8	84	From parents the same, and their [-parents'-] parents the same,
BB p8	85	I, now thirty-six years old, in perfect health, begin,
BB p8	86	Hoping to cease not till death.
BB p8	87	Creeds and schools in abeyance,
BB p8	88	Retiring back a while, sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
BB p8	89	[-With accumulations, now coming forward in front,-]
BB p8	90	[-Arrived-] {+,+} [-again,-] I harbor, [- {+here in [-my-] [- {+these+} -] [- {+my+} -] leaves+} -]for good or bad—I permit to speak, {+ [-again-] +}[- {+once again+} -] [- {+again+} -] {+at every hazard+}
BB p8	91	Nature, {+now+} without check, with original energy.
BB p8	92	Take < [-my-] > [- {+ +} -] leaves, < [-America!-] > [- {+ +} -] {+take them South & and take them North!+}
BB p8	93	Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring;
BB p8	94	Surround them, East and West! for they would surround you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p8	95	And you precedents! connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with you.
BB p8	96	I conn [-e-] {+'+} old times [-,-] {+;+}
BB p8	97	I sat studying at the feet of the great masters [-;-] {+.+}
BB p8	98	Now, if eligible, O that the great masters might return and study me!
BB p9	99	In the name of These States, shall I scorn the antique?
BB p9	100	Why These are the children of the antique, to justify it.
BB p9	101	Dead poets, philosophs, priests,
BB p9	102	Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
BB p9	103	Language-shapers, on other shores,
BB p9	104	Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
BB p9	105	I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left, wafted hither, [- {+over +} -]
BB p9	106	I have perused it—[-I-] own it is admirable, {+moving awhile among it+}
BB p9	107	[-I-] [-think-] {+think+} [-{+ [-k-] +} [- {+K+} -]now-] nothing can ever be greater—Nothing can ever deserve more than it deserves;
BB p9	108	[-I-] [-r-] {+R+} egard{+ing+} it all < [-intently-] > a long while, {+—then [- {+I+} -]dismissing [- {+& returning+} -] it, +}
BB p9	109	{+I stand in+} [- {+To+} -] [-Then-] [-take-] my place [-for good-] with my own day [-and-] [- {+exclusively+} -][-race-] here.
BB p9	110	Here lands female and male, [-,-] {+;+}
BB p9	111	Here the heirship and heiress-ship of the world— [-H-] {+h+} ere the flame of materials [-,-] {+;+}
BB p9	112	Here Spirituality, the translatress, the openly-avowed,
BB p9	113	The ever-tending, the finale of visible forms,
BB p9	114	[-The-] [- {+My+} -] {+The+} satisfier, after due long-waiting, now advancing,
BB p9	115	Yes, here comes [-the-] {+my+} the mistress, [- the Soul. -][- block letter -]
BB p9	116	The SOUL!
BB p9	117	Forever and forever— [-L-] {+l+} onger than soil is brown and solid—[- {+¶+} -]Longer than water ebbs and flows.
BB p9	118	I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most spiritual poems,
BB p10	119	And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
BB p10	120	For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my Soul and of immortality.
BB p10	121	I will make a song for These States, [- {+¶+} -]that no one State may under any circumstances be subjected to another State [-,-] {+;+}
BB p10	122	And 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 [-,-] {+;+}
BB p10	123	And I will make a song of the organic bargains of These States—And a shrill song of curses on him who would dissever the Union;
BB p10	124	And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points,
BB p10	125	And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces.
BB p10	126	And a song of the [-Mistress-] {+one of many made +} over all, [-the-] [-glittering delicate mistress over all-]
BB p10	127	The fang'd & glittering [-Mistress-] {+one that is+} over all,
BB p10	128	Resolute [-mistress-] {+warlike+}; [-weapon'd Mistress-] {+one that is+} over all.
BB p10	129	*(However high the head of any, {+else,+} [-that-]
BB p10	130	That head is higher far, & over all.)
BB p10	131	I will acknowledge contemporary lands [-,-] {+;+}
BB p10	132	I will trail the whole geography of the globe, and salute courteously every city large and small;
BB p10	133	And employments! I will put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and sea [-—-] {+¶+} And I will report all heroism from an American point of view;
BB p10	134	And sexual organs and acts! do you concentrate in me [-—-] {+¶+} For I am determined to tell you < [- with-] > < [-courageous clear voice,-] > to prove you illustrious.
BB p10	135	I will sing the song[- {+s+} -] of companionship,
BB p10	136	I will show what alone must {+finally+}compact These,
BB p10	137	{+ ¶+}I believe These are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me;
BB p11	138	I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to consume me,
BB p11	139	I will lift what has too long kept down those smoul- dering fires,
BB p11	140	I will give them complete abandonment,
BB p11	141	I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love,
BB p11	142	(For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?
BB p11	143	And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
BB p11	144	I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	145	I advance from the people en‑masse in their own spirit [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	146	Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
BB p11	147	Omnes! Omnes!
BB p11	148	Let others ignore what they may [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	149	I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	150	I am myself just as much evil as good {+& my nation is—+}—And I say there is in fact no evil [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	151	{+(+}Or if there is, I say it is just as important to you, to the [-earth,-] {+land,+} earth, or to me, as anything else.{+)+}
BB p11	152	I too, following many, and followed by many, inau- gurate a Religion—I too go to the wars [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	153	{+(+}It may be I am destined to utter the loudest cries thereof, the conqueror's shouts [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	154	{+Who knows?+}They may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.{+).+}
BB p11	155	Each is not for its own sake [-,-] {+;+}
BB p11	156	I say the whole earth, and all the stars in the sky, are for Religion's sake.
BB p12	157	I say no man has ever {+yet+}been half devout enough,
BB p12	158	None has ever {+yet+} adored or worship'd half enough,
BB p12	159	None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
BB p12	160	I [-specifically announce that-] {+say+} the real and perma- nent grandeur of These States must be {+their+} {+Religion,+}
BB p12	161	{+(down)*+} {+ [-lecture-] *(Nor character, nor life worthy the name without religion, Nor [-State,-] {+Land,+} > nor man or woman, without religion +} {+(+}Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur.{+)+}
BB p12	162	*(Nor character, nor life worthy the name without religion,
BB p12	163	Nor [-State,-] {+Land,+} > nor man or woman, without religion
BB p12	164	What are you doing, young man?
BB p12	165	Are you so earnest—so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
BB p12	166	These ostensible realities, [-materials,-] {+politics,+} materials, points?
BB p12	167	Your ambition or business, whatever it may be?
BB p12	168	It is well—Against such I say not a word—I am their poet also;
BB p12	169	But behold! such swiftly subside—burnt up for Religion's sake,
BB p12	170	For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the earth,
BB p12	171	Any more than such are to Religion.
BB p12	172	What < [-do you seek-] > [- {+seek you+} -] , so pensive and silent?
BB p12	173	What [-do you-] need, {+you,+} [-comrade?-] [- {+dear+} -] {+Camerado?+}
BB p12	174	[-Mon cher!-] {+Dear son!+} Mon cher! do you think it is love?
BB p12	175	[-Proceed, comrade,-] {+Listen, dear son—listen America, daughter & son,+}
BB p12	176	It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess—{+and+}yet it satisfies—it is great [-,-] {+;+}
BB p12	177	But there is something else very great—it makes the whole coincide [-,-] {+;+}
BB p13	178	It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands, sweeps and provides for all.
BB p13	179	[-O I see-] [- [-t-] {+T+} he following poems are indeed-] {+Know you,+} to drop in the earth the germs of < [-a greater-] > Religion [-.-] {+,+} [- {+for you,+} -] [- {+My chants+} -] {+The following chants each for its kind, I sing.+}
BB p13	180	{+Whoever you are,+} [-My [-c-] {+C+} omrade!-]
BB p13	181	[-For you, to-] [- {+ +} -] {+come+} share with me, two greatnesses—{+¶+} And a third one, rising inclusive and more resplendent,
BB p13	182	The greatness of Love and Democracy—and [-the-] {+that+} greatness of Religion.
BB p13	183	Melange mine [- {+o+} -] {++}! [- {+interplay between+} -] the [- {+unseen and {+the+} seen;+} -] [- {+[-hidden-] {+unknown+} & the known;+} -] {+unseen & the seen!+}
BB p13	184	Mysterious ocean where the streams empty,
BB p13	185	Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me,
BB p13	186	[-Wondrous interplay between the seen and unseen,-]
BB p13	187	Living beings, identities, now doubtless near us, in the air, that we know not of,
BB p13	188	[-Extasy everywhere touching and thrilling me,-]
BB p13	189	Contact daily and hourly that will not release me,
BB p13	190	These selecting—These, in hints, demanded of me.
BB p13	191	Not he, [-adhesive, kissing me so long with his daily-] [- {+who {+has+} kiss'd {+me+} day after day [-with a-] {+for years,+}+} -] {+with a daily kiss kissing me from a child,+} [-kiss,-]
BB p13	192	Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
BB p13	193	Any more than I am held to the heavens, to the spiritual world,
BB p13	194	And to the identities of the Gods, my [-unknown-] lovers[-,-] {+faithful and true+}
BB p13	195	After what they have done to me, suggesting [-such-] [- {+my+} -] themes.
BB p14	196	O such themes! Equalities!
BB p14	197	O amazement of things! O divine average!
BB p14	198	O warblings under the sun—ushered, as now, or at noon, or setting!
BB p14	199	O strain, musical, flowing through ages—now reaching hither,
BB p14	200	I take to your reckless and composite chords—I add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
BB p14	201	As I have walked in Alabama my morning walk,
BB p14	202	I have seen where the she-bird, the mocking-bird, sat on her nest in the briers, hatching her brood.
BB p14	203	I have seen the he-bird also,
BB p14	204	I have paused to hear him, near at hand, inflating his throat, and joyfully singing.
BB p14	205	And while I paused, it came to me that what he really sang for was not there only,
BB p14	206	Nor for his mate nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes,
BB p14	207	But subtle, clandestine, away beyond,
BB p14	208	A charge transmitted, and gift occult, for those being born.
BB p14	209	{+Democracy!+}
BB p14	210	Near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
BB p14	211	Ma femme!
BB p14	212	For the brood beyond us and of us,
BB p14	213	For those who belong here, and those to come,
BB p15	214	I, exultant, to be ready for them, [- {+¶+} -]will now shake out carols {+¶+} [- {+¶ The strongest and haughtiest+} -]stronger and haughtier than < [-have-] > < [-ever-] > [- {+any+} -] yet < [-been-] > heard upon the earth.
BB p15	215	I will make the songs of passions, to give them their way,
BB p15	216	And your songs, {+outlaw'd+}offenders—for I scan you with kindred eyes, {+¶+}and {+I+}carry you with me the same as any.
BB p15	217	I will make the true poem of riches,
BB p15	218	[-Namely,-] [-t-] {+T+} o earn for the body and the mind, [-what-] [- {+whatever+} -] [- {+ +} -] {+[-only-] whatever+} what adheres, [- {+¶+} -] [- <and goes forward,> -] [- {+¶ That which+} -]and is not dropt by death.
BB p15	219	I will effuse egotism, and show it underlying all— And I will be the bard of Personality;
BB p15	220	And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other,
BB p15	221	And I will show that there is {+after all+}no imperfection in [-male-] [-or female, {+¶+}or in the earth, or in-] the present— and can be none in the future,
BB p15	222	And I will show that whatever happens to anybody, it may be turned to beautiful results [-—-] {+¶+} And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death [-;-] {+.+}
BB p15	223	And I will thread a thread through my poems that [- no one thing in the universe is inferior to another thing,-] {+[-And-] that time & events are compact—+}
BB p15	224	And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
BB p16	225	I will not make poems with reference to parts,
BB p16	226	But I will make leaves, poems, poemets, songs, says, thoughts, with reference to ensemble;
BB p16	227	And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days,
BB p16	228	And I will not make a poem, nor the least part of a poem, but has reference to the Soul,
BB p16	229	{+(+}Because, having looked at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one, [- {+¶+} -] [- {+¶ And I find there is not+} -] < [-nor-] > any particle of one, but has reference to the Soul. {+)+}
BB p16	230	Was somebody asking to see the Soul?
BB p16	231	See! your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, [- {+¶+} -]beasts, {+¶+}the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
BB p16	232	All hold spiritual joys, and afterward loosen them,
BB p16	233	How can the real body ever die, and be buried?
BB p16	234	Of your real body, and any man's or woman's real body, {+¶+} item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners, [- {+¶+} -] and pass to fitting spheres, {+,+} carrying what has accrued to it [- {+¶+} -] from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
BB p16	235	Not the types set up by the printer return their im- pression, the meaning, the main concern, {+¶+} any more than a man's substance and life, {+¶+} or a woman's substance and life, return in the body and the Soul, indifferently before death and after death.
BB p17	236	Behold! the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern—and includes and is the Soul;
BB p17	237	Whoever you are! how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it.
BB p17	238	Whoever you are! to [-y-] {+Y+} ou endless announcements.
BB p17	239	Daughter of the lands, did you wait for your poet?
BB p17	240	Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
BB p17	241	Toward the male of The States, and toward the female of The States,
BB p17	242	[-Toward the President, the Congress, the diverse Gov- ernors, the new Judiciary,-]
BB p17	243	Live words—words to the lands.
BB p17	244	O the lands!
BB p17	245	[-Lands scorning invaders!-] Interlinked, food-yielding lands! {+land of the hay‑field! [-underspreading all!-]+}
BB p17	246	Land of coal and iron! Land of gold! Land[-s-] of cotton, sugar, rice!
BB p17	247	Odorous and sunny land! Floridian land!
BB p17	248	Land of the [-spinal river, the Mississippi!-] {+flowing Ohio!+} Land of the Alleghanies! Ohio's land! {+land of {+Ohio and+} Illinios+}
BB p17	249	Land of wheat, beef, pork! Land of wool and hemp! Land of the [-potato, the-] apple, and [-the-] grape!
BB p17	250	Land of [-the pastoral plains,-] [- {+[-a-] beyond—+} -] [-the grass-fields of the-] [-world!-] {+¶+} [-Land of those-] sweet-aired interminable {+Western+}plateaus! {+¶+}Land [-there-] of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie! [-Land there of rapt -] [-thought, and of the realization of the stars! -] [-Land of simple, holy, untamed lives! -]
BB p18	251	Lands where the northwest Columbia winds, and where the southwest Colorado winds!
BB p18	252	Land of the {+Eastern+}Chesapeake! Land of the Delaware!
BB p18	253	Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan!
BB p18	254	Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! Land of Vermont and Connecticut!
BB p18	255	Land of [-many oceans!-] {+the mighty ocean shores!+} Land of sierras and peaks!
BB p18	256	Land of boatmen and sailors! Fishermen's land!
BB p18	257	Inextricable lands! the clutched together! the passionate [-lovers-] {+ones+} !
BB p18	258	The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limbed!
BB p18	259	The great women's land! the feminine! the ex- perienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters!
BB p18	260	Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breezed! the diverse! the compact!
BB p18	261	The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!
BB p18	262	O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! [- {+South and North!+} -] {+O I at any rate include you all with perfect love+} {+O+} [-I-] [-O-] I [- {+O I at any rate, include you [-both-] {+all+} both with perfect love—I+} -]cannot be discharged from you! {+not from one any sooner than another+}
BB p18	263	O Death! O for all that, I am yet of you, unseen, this hour, with irrepressible love,
BB p18	264	Walking New England, a friend, a traveller,
BB p18	265	Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples, on Paumanok's sands,
BB p18	266	[- {+Yet+} -]Crossing the prairies—dwelling again in Chicago— dwelling in [-many-] {+every [-American-]+} town[-s-],
BB p18	267	Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
BB p18	268	Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public halls,
BB p18	269	Of and through The States, as during life [- {+(no separation for me)+} -]—each man and woman my neighbor,
BB p19	270	The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
BB p19	271	The Mississippian and Arkansian[-—the woman and-] [-man of {+Idaho+} Utah, Dakotah, Nebraska,-] yet with me [-—-]and I yet with any of them,
BB p19	272	Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river—yet in my house of adobie,
BB p19	273	Yet returning eastward—yet in the Sea-Side State, or in Maryland,
BB p19	274	Yet [-a child of the North—yet-] Kanadian, cheerily braving the winter—the snow and ice welcome to me,
BB p19	275	Yet a true son either of Maine, or of the Granite State, [- {+¶+} -]or of the Narragansett Bay State, or of the Empire State,
BB p19	276	Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same—yet welcoming every new brother,
BB p19	277	Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones, from the hour they unite with the old ones,
BB p19	278	Coming among the new ones myself, to be their companion{+& equal—+}—coming personally to you now,
BB p19	279	Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
BB p19	280	With me, with firm holding—yet haste, haste on.
BB p19	281	For your life, adhere to me,
BB p19	282	Of all the men of the earth, [- {+perhaps+} -] I only can unloose you and toughen you,
BB p19	283	I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself to you—but what of that?
BB p19	284	Must not Nature be persuaded many times?
BB p20	285	No dainty dolce affettuoso I;
BB p20	286	Bearded, sunburnt, gray-necked, forbidding, I have arrived,
BB p20	287	To be wrestled with as I pass, for the solid prizes of the universe,
BB p20	288	For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
BB p20	289	< [-On my way a moment I pause,-] >
BB p20	290	< [-Here for you! And here for America!-] >
BB p20	291	< [-Still-] > the Present I raise aloft—< [-Still-] > {+the Future of+} {+The States+} I harbinge, glad and sublime,
BB p20	292	And for the Past I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
BB p20	293	{+(+}The red aborigines!
BB p20	294	Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, {+¶+}calls as of birds and animals in the woods, syllabled to us for names,
BB p20	295	Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta, Oronoco.
BB p20	296	Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla- Walla,
BB p20	297	Leaving such to The States, they melt, they depart, {+¶+}charging the water and the land with names.{+)+}
BB p20	298	O expanding and swift! O henceforth,
BB p20	299	Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick, and audacious,
BB p20	300	A world primal again—Vistas of glory, incessant and branching,
BB p20	301	A new race, dominating previous ones, and grander far, {+with [-new-] [- {+grander+} -] [-wars,-] new contests,+}
BB p20	302	New politics—New literatures and religions—New inventions and arts.
BB p21	303	These< [-!-] > [-These,-] my voice announcing—I will sleep no more, but arise;
BB p21	304	You oceans that have been calm within me! < [-how-] > I feel you, [- {+now+} -] fathomless, stirring, {+¶+}preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
BB p21	305	See! steamers steaming through my poems!
BB p21	306	See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing;
BB p21	307	See, 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;
BB p21	308	See, on the one side the Western Sea, and on the other side the Eastern Sea, {+¶+} {+—+}how they advance and retreat upon my poems, as upon their own shores;
BB p21	309	See, pastures and forests in my poems—See, animals, wild and tame—See, beyond the Kanzas, count- less herds of buffalo, feeding on {+ +}short curly grass;
BB p21	310	See, in my poems, [-old and-] {+ +} [-new-] cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, {+¶+} {+See, the+} [-with-] iron and stone edifices, [-and-] ceaseless vehicles, and commerce;
BB p21	311	See the populace, millions upon millions, handsome, tall, muscular, both sexes, [- {+¶+} -] clothed in easy and dignified clothes—[-teaching, commanding,{+¶+} mar- rying, generating, equally electing and elective;-]
BB p21	312	See, the many-cylinder'd steam printing-press—See, the electric telegraph {+stretching across the continent, from the Western Sea to Manhattan,+} [-—-] {+¶+} See, the strong and quick locomotive, as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle;
BB p21	313	See, ploughmen, ploughing farms—See, miners, digging mines—See, the numberless factories;
BB p22	314	See, mechanics, busy at their benches, with tools— {+¶+}See from among them, [- {+¶+} -] superior [-judges, philo- sophs,-] Presidents, emerge, dressed in working dresses;
BB p22	315	See, lounging through the shops and fields of The States, me, well-beloved, close-held by day and night,
BB p22	316	Hear the loud echo of my songs there! Read the hints come at last.
BB p22	317	[-O my comrade!-] [- {+O closer and closer!+} -] {+O Camerado close!+}
BB p22	318	O you and me at last—and us two only [-;-] {+.+}
BB p22	319	O power, liberty, eternity at last!
BB p22	320	O to be relieved of distinctions! to make as much of vices as virtues!
BB p22	321	O to level occupations and the sexes! O to bring all to common ground! O adhesiveness!
BB p22	322	O the pensive aching to [-be-] {+henceforth travel+} together—{+(+}you know not why, and I know not why.{+)+}
BB p22	323	O a word to clear [-one's-] [- {+the+} -] {+our+} one's path ahead endlessly!
BB p22	324	O something extatic and undemonstrable! O music wild!
BB p22	325	O now I triumph—and you shall also;
BB p22	326	O hand in hand—O wholesome pleasure—O one more desirer and lover [-,-] {+!+}
BB p22	327	O haste, firm holding—haste, haste on, with me.
BB p23	328	I CELEBRATE myself,
BB p23	329	And what I assume you shall assume,
BB p23	330	For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.
BB p23	331	I loafe and invite my Soul,
BB p23	332	I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.
BB p23	333	Houses and rooms are full of perfumes—the shelves are crowded with perfumes,
BB p23	334	I breathe the fragrance myself, and know it and like it,
BB p23	335	The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
BB p23	336	The atmosphere is not a perfume—it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless,
BB p23	337	It is for my mouth forever—I am in love with it,
BB p23	338	I will go to the bank by the wood, and become undisguised and naked,
BB p23	339	I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
BB p24	340	The smoke of my own breath,
BB p24	341	Echoes, ripples, buzzed whispers, love-root, silk- thread, crotch and vine [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	342	My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	343	The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore, and dark-colored sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	344	The sound of the belched words of my voice, words loosed to the eddies of the wind [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	345	A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	346	The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	347	The delight alone, or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields and hill-sides [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	348	The feeling of health, the full-noon trill, the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun.
BB p24	349	Have you reckon [-e-] {+'+} d a thousand acres much? Have you reckon [-e-] {+'+} d the earth much?
BB p24	350	Have you practis [-e-] {+'+} d so long to learn to read?
BB p24	351	Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
BB p24	352	Stop this day and night with me, and you shall pos- sess the origin of all poems [-,-] {+;+}
BB p24	353	You shall possess the good of the earth and sun— {+(+}there are millions of suns left [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p24	354	You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books [-,-] {+;+}
BB p25	355	You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p25	356	You shall listen to all sides, and filter them from yourself.
BB p25	357	I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end [-,-] {+;+}
BB p25	358	But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.
BB p25	359	There was never any more inception than there is now,
BB p25	360	Nor any more youth or age than there is now [-,-] {+;+}
BB p25	361	And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
BB p25	362	Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
BB p25	363	Urge, and urge, and urge [-,-] {+;+}
BB p25	364	Always the procreant urge of the world.
BB p25	365	Out of the dimness opposite equals advance—always substance and increase, always sex [-,-] {+;+}
BB p25	366	Always a knit of identity—always distinction— always a breed of life.
BB p25	367	To elaborate is no avail—learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
BB p25	368	Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams,
BB p25	369	Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical,
BB p25	370	I and this mystery here we stand.
BB p25	371	Clear and sweet is my Soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my Soul.
BB p26	372	Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen,
BB p26	373	Till that becomes unseen, and receives proof in its turn.
BB p26	374	Showing the best, and dividing it from the worst, age vexes age [-,-] {+;+}
BB p26	375	Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, [- {+¶+} -]and go bathe and admire myself.
BB p26	376	Welcome is every organ and attribute of me, and of any man hearty and clean [-,-] {+;+}
BB p26	377	Not an inch, nor a particle of an inch, is vile, and none shall be less familiar than the rest.
BB p26	378	I am satisfied—I see, dance, laugh, sing;
BB p26	379	As the hugging and loving Bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, {+with stealthy tread,+}
BB p26	380	[-And leaves for-] {+Leaving+} me baskets covered with white towels, swelling the house with their plenty,
BB p26	381	Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization, and scream at my eyes,
BB p26	382	That they turn from gazing after and down the road,
BB p26	383	And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent,
BB p26	384	Exactly the contents of one, and exactly the contents of two, and which is ahead?
BB p26	385	Trippers and askers surround me,
BB p26	386	People I meet—the effect upon me of my early life, or the ward and city I live in, or the nation,
BB p27	387	The latest [-news,-] {+dates,+} discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
BB p27	388	My dinner, dress, associates, looks, [-work,-] compliments, dues,
BB p27	389	The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
BB p27	390	The sickness of one of my folks, or of myself, or ill-doing, or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations [-,-] {+;+}
BB p27	391	Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the [-death of my friends-] {+dropping of comrades+} [-mortally wounded,-] [- {+many+} -] fitful events,
BB p27	392	These come to me days and nights, and go from me again,
BB p27	393	But they are not the Me myself.
BB p27	394	Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am [-,-] {+;+}
BB p27	395	Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary [-,-] {+;+} [- {+pensive, content [-to wait-] submissive+} -]
BB p27	396	Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest,
BB p27	397	Looking with side-curved head, curious what will come next [-,-] {+;+}
BB p27	398	Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it.
BB p27	399	Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders [-,-] {+;+}
BB p27	400	I have no mockings or arguments—I witness and wait.
BB p27	401	I believe in you, my Soul—the other I am must not abase itself to you,
BB p27	402	And you must not be abased to the other.
BB p27	403	Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	404	Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best,
BB p28	405	Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
BB p28	406	I mind how once we lay, such a transparent summer morning [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	407	How you settled your head athwart my hips, and gently turned over upon me,
BB p28	408	And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
BB p28	409	And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.
BB p28	410	Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and [-joy and-] knowledge that pass all the [-art and-] argument of the earth [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	411	And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	412	And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	413	And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	414	And that a kelson of the creation is love [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	415	And limitless are leaves, stiff or drooping in the fields [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	416	And brown ants in the little wells beneath them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p28	417	And mossy scabs of the worm-fence, and heaped stones, elder, mullen, and pokeweed.
BB p28	418	A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
BB p28	419	How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is, any more than he.
BB p29	420	I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
BB p29	421	Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
BB p29	422	A scented gift and remembrancer, designedly drop [-ped-] {+t+} ,
BB p29	423	Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, {+¶+}that we may see and remark, and say Whose?
BB p29	424	Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.
BB p29	425	Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic [-,-] {+;+}
BB p29	426	And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
BB p29	427	Growing among black folks as among white [-,-] {+;+}
BB p29	428	Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same.
BB p29	429	And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves.
BB p29	430	Tenderly will I use you, curling grass [-,-] {+;+}
BB p29	431	It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men [-,-] [- {+;+} -]
BB p29	432	It may be if I had known them I would have loved them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p29	433	It may be you are from old people, and from women, {+¶+} and from offspring taken soon out of their mothers' laps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p29	434	And here you are the mothers' laps.
BB p29	435	This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
BB p29	436	Darker than the colorless beards of old men,
BB p30	437	Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
BB p30	438	O I perceive after all so many uttering tongues!
BB p30	439	And I perceive they do not come from the roofs of mouths for nothing.
BB p30	440	I wish I could translate the hints about the dead young men and women,
BB p30	441	And the hints about old men and mothers, and the offspring taken soon out of their laps.
BB p30	442	What do you think has become of the young and old men?
BB p30	443	And what do you think has become of the women and children?
BB p30	444	They are alive and well somewhere [-,-] {+;+}
BB p30	445	The smallest sprout shows there is really no death < [-,-] > [- {+;+} -]
BB p30	446	And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it[-,-]
BB p30	447	And ceased the moment life appeared.
BB p30	448	All goes onward and outward—nothing collapses,
BB p30	449	And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
BB p30	450	Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?
BB p30	451	I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
BB p30	452	I pass death with the dying, and birth with the new- washed babe, [- {+¶+} -]and am not contained between my hat and boots < [-,-] > [- {+;+} -]
BB p31	453	< [-And-] > [- {+But+} -] peruse manifold objects, no two alike, and every one good [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	454	The earth good, and the stars good, and their adjuncts all good.
BB p31	455	I am not an earth, nor an adjunct of an earth < [-,-] > [- {+;+} -]
BB p31	456	I am the mate and companion of people, < [-all-] > just as immortal and fathomless as myself;
BB p31	457	{+(+}They do not know how immortal, but I know.{+)+}
BB p31	458	Every kind for itself and its own—for me mine, male and female [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	459	For me those that have been boys, and that love women [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	460	For me the man that is proud, and feels how it stings to be slighted [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	461	For me the sweetheart and the old maid—for me mothers, and the mothers of mothers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	462	For me lips that have smiled, eyes that have shed tears [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	463	For me children, and the begetters of children.
BB p31	464	[- Who need be afraid of the merge? -] {+ O mind [-fears-] not exposure to me[-?-]{+!+}[-mine?-] +}
BB p31	465	Who need be afraid of the merge?
BB p31	466	O mind [-fears-] not exposure to me[-?-]{+!+}[-mine?-]
BB p31	467	Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale, nor discarded [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	468	I see through the broadcloth and gingham, whether or no [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	469	And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless[-,-]{+—+} and [-can never-] {+cannot+} be shaken away.
BB p31	470	The little one sleeps in its cradle [-,-] {+;+}
BB p31	471	I lift the gauze and look a long [- {+long+} -] time, and silently brush away flies with my hand.
BB p32	472	The youngster and the red-faced girl turn aside up the bushy hill [-,-] {+;+}
BB p32	473	I peeringly view them from the top.
BB p32	474	The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom;
BB p32	475	[- {+(+} -][-It is so-]—I witness [-e-] {+'+} [-d-] the corpse {+with {+its+} dabbled hair—I [-saw-] {+note+} where+}—[-there-] the pistol [-had-] {+has+} fallen. [- {+)+} -]
BB p32	476	The blab of the pave, the tires of carts, sluff of boot- soles, talk of the promenaders,
BB p32	477	The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, {+¶+}the clank of the shod horses on the granite floor,
BB p32	478	The snow-sleighs, the clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snow-balls,
BB p32	479	The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of roused mobs,
BB p32	480	The flap of the curtained litter, {+(+}a sick man inside, borne to the hospital, {+)+}
BB p32	481	The meeting of enemies, the sudden oath, the blows and fall,
BB p32	482	The excited crowd, the policeman with his star, quickly working his passage to the centre of the crowd,
BB p32	483	The impassive stones that receive and return so many echoes,
BB p32	484	The Souls moving along—(are they invisible [- {+to those who can see them+} -], while the least of the stones is visible [- {+to those who can see them+} -]?)
BB p32	485	What groans of over-fed or half-starved who fall sun- struck, or in fits,
BB p32	486	What exclamations of women taken suddenly, who hurry home and give birth to babes,
BB p33	487	What living and buried speech is always vibrating here—what howls restrained by decorum,
BB p33	488	Arrests of criminals, slights, adulterous offers made, acceptances, rejections with convex lips [-,-] {+;+}
BB p33	489	I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart.
BB p33	490	The big doors of the country-barn stand open and ready,
BB p33	491	The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn wagon,
BB p33	492	The clear light plays on the brown gray and green intertinged,
BB p33	493	The armfuls are pack [-ed-] {+t+} to the sagging mow.
BB p33	494	I am there—I help—I came stretch [-ed-] {+t+} atop of the load,
BB p33	495	I felt its soft jolts—one leg reclined on the other;
BB p33	496	I jump from the cross-beams and seize the clover and timothy,
BB p33	497	And roll head over heels, and tangle my hair full of wisps.
BB p33	498	Alone, far in the wilds and mountains, I hunt,
BB p33	499	Wandering, amazed at my own lightness and glee,
BB p33	500	In the late afternoon choosing a safe spot to pass the night,
BB p33	501	Kindling a fire and broiling the fresh-kill [-e-] {+'+} d game,
BB p33	502	[-Soundly-] falling asleep on the gather [-e-] {+'+} d leaves, with my dog and gun by my side.
BB p33	503	The Yankee clipper is under her three sky-sails— she cuts the sparkle and scud [-,-] {+;+}
BB p34	504	My eyes settle the land—I bend at her prow, or shout joyously from the deck.
BB p34	505	The boatmen and clam-diggers arose early and stop [-ped-] {+t+} for me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p34	506	I tuck [-e-] {+'+} d my trowser-ends in my boots, and went and had a good time;
BB p34	507	You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.
BB p34	508	I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far-west—the bride was a red girl [-,-] {+;+}
BB p34	509	Her father and his friends sat near, cross-legged and dumbly smoking [-—-] {+¶+} they had moccasons to their feet, and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders;
BB p34	510	On a bank lounged the trapper—he was dres [-sed-] {+t+} mostly in skins—[-his luxuriant beard and curls-] [-protected his neck-] {+he held by the hand his bride+},
BB p34	511	One hand rested on his rifle—the other hand held firmly the wrist of the red girl,
BB p34	512	She had long eyelashes—her head was bare [-—-] {+¶+} her coarse straight locks [- {+¶+} -]descended upon her volup- tuous limbs and reach [-e-] {+'+} d to her feet.
BB p34	513	The runaway slave came to my house and stop [-ped-] {+t+} outside,
BB p34	514	I heard his motions crackling the twigs of the wood- pile [-,-] {+;+}
BB p34	515	Through the swung half-door of the kitchen I saw him limpsy and weak,
BB p34	516	And went where he sat on a log, and led him in and assured him,
BB p35	517	And brought water, and filled a tub for his sweated body and bruis [-e-] {+'+} d feet,
BB p35	518	And gave him a room that enter [-e-] {+'+} d from my own, and gave him some coarse clean clothes,
BB p35	519	And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and his awkwardness,
BB p35	520	And remember putting plasters on the galls of his neck and ankles;
BB p35	521	He staid with me a week before he was recuperated and pass [-e-] {+'+} d north [-,-] {+;+}
BB p35	522	{+(+}I had him sit next me at table—my fire-lock lean [-e-] {+'+} d in the corner.{+)+}
BB p35	523	Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
BB p35	524	Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly;
BB p35	525	Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so lonesome.
BB p35	526	She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank [-,-] {+;+}
BB p35	527	She hides, handsome and richly drest, aft the blinds of the window.
BB p35	528	Which of the young men does she like the best?
BB p35	529	Ah, the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.
BB p35	530	Where are you off to, lady? for I see you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p35	531	You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in your room.
BB p35	532	Dancing and laughing along the beach came the twenty-ninth bather [-,-] {+;+}
BB p35	533	The rest did not see her, but she saw them and lov [-e-] {+'+} d them.
BB p36	534	The beards of the young men glisten [-e-] {+'+} d with wet, it ran from their long hair,
BB p36	535	Little streams pass [-e-] {+'+} d all over their bodies.
BB p36	536	An unseen hand also pass [-e-] {+'+} d over their bodies,
BB p36	537	It descended tremblingly from their temples and ribs.
BB p36	538	The young men float on their backs [-—-] {+¶+} their white bellies bulge to the sun—they do not ask who seizes fast to them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	539	They do not know who puffs and declines with pendant and bending arch [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	540	They do not think whom they souse with spray.
BB p36	541	The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharp- ens his knife at the stall in the market [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	542	I loiter, enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break-down.
BB p36	543	Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	544	Each has his main-sledge—they are all out—{+(+}there is a great heat in the fire.{+)+}
BB p36	545	From the cinder-strew [-e-] {+'+} d threshold I follow their movements [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	546	The lithe sheer of their waists plays even with their massive arms [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	547	Overhand the hammers [-roll-] [- {+circle—+} -] {+swing+} —overhand so slow— overhand so sure [-,-] {+;+}
BB p36	548	They do not hasten—each man hits in his place.
BB p37	549	The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses —the block[-s-] swags underneath on its tied-over chain[-,-] [- {+; — holds the reins of his four horses+} -]
BB p37	550	The negro that drives the [-huge-] dray of the stone-yard —steady and tall he stands, pois [-e-] {+'+} d on one leg on the string-piece [-,-] {+;+}
BB p37	551	His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast, and loosens over his hip-band,
BB p37	552	His glance is calm and commanding—he tosses the slouch of his hat away from his forehead [-,-] {+;+}
BB p37	553	The sun falls on his crispy hair and moustache— falls on the black [- {+¶+} -]of his polish [-ed-] {+t+} and perfect limbs.
BB p37	554	I behold the picturesque giant and love him—and I do not stop there [-,-] {+;+}
BB p37	555	I go with the team also.
BB p37	556	In me the caresser of life wherever moving— back- ward as well as forward slueing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p37	557	To niches aside and junior bending.
BB p37	558	Oxen that rattle the yoke {+& chain,+} or halt in the {+leafy+} shade! what is that you express in your eyes?
BB p37	559	It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
BB p37	560	My tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck, on my distant and day-long ramble [-,-] {+;+}
BB p37	561	They rise together—they slowly circle around.
BB p37	562	I believe in those wing [-e-] {+'+} d purposes,
BB p37	563	And acknowledge red, yellow, white, playing within me,
BB p38	564	And consider green and violet, and the tufted crown, intentional,
BB p38	565	And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
BB p38	566	[- {+singing+} -] And the {+ +} [-mocking-bird-] {+jay+} in the [-swamp-] {+woods+} never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me,
BB p38	567	And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
BB p38	568	The wild gander leads his flock through the cool night,
BB p38	569	Ya-honk! he says, and sounds it down to me like an invitation [-;-] {+.+}
BB p38	570	{+(+}The pert may suppose it meaningless, but I listen [-close-],
BB p38	571	I find its purpose and place up there toward the wintry sky.{+)+}
BB p38	572	The sharp-hoof [-e-] {+'+} d moose of the north, the cat on the house-sill, the chickadee, the prairie-dog,
BB p38	573	The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
BB p38	574	The brood of the turkey-hen, and she with her half- spread wings,
BB p38	575	I see in them and myself the same old law.
BB p38	576	The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
BB p38	577	They scorn the best I can do to relate them.
BB p38	578	I am enamour [-e-] {+'+} d of growing outdoors,
BB p38	579	Of men that live among cattle, or taste of the ocean or woods,
BB p39	580	Of the builders and steerers of ships, [-and-] the wielders of axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	581	[- {+(+} -]I can eat and sleep with them week in and week out.[- {+)+} -]
BB p39	582	What is commonest, cheapest, < [-nearest,-] > easiest, is Me,
BB p39	583	Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,
BB p39	584	Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me,
BB p39	585	Not asking the sky to come down to my good will,
BB p39	586	Scattering it freely forever.
BB p39	587	The pure contralto sings in the organ loft [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	588	The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	589	The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	590	The pilot seizes the king-pin—he heaves down with a strong arm [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	591	The mate stands braced in the whale-boat—{+(+}lance and harpoon are ready [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p39	592	The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	593	The deacons are ordained with cross [-ed-] {+t+} hands at the altar [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	594	The spinning-girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	595	The farmer stops by the bars, as he walks on a First{+‑+} [-D-] {+d+} ay loafe, and looks at the oats and rye [-,-] {+;+}
BB p39	596	The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum, a con- firm [-e-] {+'+} d case,
BB p39	597	{+(+}He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;{+)+}
BB p40	598	{+—+}The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
BB p40	599	He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blurr with the manuscript;
BB p40	600	The malform [-e-] {+'+} d limbs are tied to the [-anatomist's-] {+surgeon's+} table,
BB p40	601	What is remov [-e-] {+'+} d drops horribly in a pail;
BB p40	602	The quadroon girl is sold at the stand—the drunkard nods by the bar-room stove [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	603	The machinist rolls up his sleeves—the policeman travels his beat—the gate-keeper marks who pass [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	604	The young fellow drives the express-wagon [-—-] {+,+} {+(+}I love him, though I do not know him [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p40	605	The half-breed straps on his light boots to compete in the race [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	606	The western turkey-shooting draws old and young— some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs,
BB p40	607	Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece;
BB p40	608	The groups of newly-come [-e-] {+im+} migrants cover the wharf or levee [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	609	As the woolly-pates hoe in the sugar-field, the over- seer views them from his saddle [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	610	The bugle calls in the ball-room, the gentlemen run for their partners, the dancers bow to each other [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	611	The youth lies awake in the cedar-roof [-e-] {+'+} d garret, and harks to the musical rain [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	612	The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron [-,-] {+;+}
BB p40	613	The reformer ascends the platform, he spouts with his mouth and nose,
BB p41	614	The company returns from its excursion, the darkey brings up the rear and bears the well-riddled target,
BB p41	615	The squaw, [- {+walking the streets of the city,+} -]wrapt in her yellow-hemm [-e-] {+'+} d cloth, [-is-] offer [-ing-] {+s+} moccasons and bead-bags for sale [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	616	The connoisseur peers along the exhibition-gallery with half-shut eyes bent side-ways [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	617	As the deck-hands make fast the steamboat, the plank is thrown for the shore-going passengers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	618	The young sister holds out the skein, while the elder sister winds it off in a ball, and stops now and then for the knots [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	619	The one-year wife is recovering and happy, having a week ago borne her first child [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	620	The clean-hair [-e-] {+'+} d Yankee girl works with her sewing- machine, or in the factory or mill [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	621	The nine months' gone is in the parturition chamber, her faintness and pains are advancing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	622	The paving-man leans on his two-handed rammer < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] the reporter's lead flies swiftly over the note- book —the sign-painter is lettering with red and gold [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	623	The canal-boy trots on the tow-path—the bookkeeper counts at his desk—the shoemaker waxes his thread [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	624	The conductor beats time for the band, and all the performers follow him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	625	The child is baptized—the convert is making his first professions [-,-] {+;+}
BB p41	626	The regatta is spread on the bay{+—the race is begun—+}—how the white sails sparkle!
BB p41	627	The drover, watching his drove, sings out to them that would stray [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	628	The pedler sweats with his pack on his back, {+delay'd,+} {+(+}the purchaser higgling about the odd cent [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p42	629	The camera and plate are prepared, the lady must sit for her daguerreotype [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	630	The bride unrumples her white dress, the minute- hand of the clock moves slowly [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	631	The opium-eater reclines with rigid head and just- opened lips [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	632	The prostitute draggles her shawl, her bonnet bobs on her tipsy and pimpled neck,
BB p42	633	The crowd laugh at her blackguard oaths, the men jeer and wink to each other,
BB p42	634	(Miserable!-I do not laugh at your oaths, nor jeer you;)
BB p42	635	The President, holding a cabinet council, is sur- rounded by the Great Secretaries [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	636	On the piazza walk [-five-] {+three+} [-friendly-] {+three old+} matrons {+stately & friendly+} with twined arms [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	637	The crew of the fish-smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	638	The Missourian crosses the plains, toting his wares and his cattle [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	639	As the fare-collector goes through the train, he gives notice by the jingling of loose change [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	640	The floor-men are laying the floor—the tinners are tinning the roof—the masons are calling for mortar [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	641	In single file, each shouldering his hod, pass onward the laborers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p42	642	Seasons pursuing each other, the indescribable crowd is gathered—it is the Fourth of Seventh{+-+} [-M-] {+m+} onth —{+(+}What salutes of cannon and small arms!{+)+}
BB p43	643	Seasons pursuing each other, the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	644	Off on the lakes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	645	The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	646	Flatboatmen make fast, towards dusk, near the cotton- wood or pekan-trees [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	647	Coon-seekers go through the regions of the Red river, or through those drained by the Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansaw [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	648	Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chatta- hooche or Altamahaw [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	649	Patriarchs [- {+on plantations+} -] sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great-grandsons around them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	650	In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after their day's sport [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	651	The city sleeps and the country sleeps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p43	652	The living sleep for their time, {+(+}the dead sleep for their time [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p43	653	The old husband sleeps by his wife, and the young husband sleeps by his wife;
BB p43	654	And these one and all tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them,
BB p43	655	And such as it is to be of these, more or less, I am.
BB p43	656	I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
BB p43	657	(That [- {+ever ing+} -] ttle composite [- {+ever+} -] I! that discord [-!-] ! That contradiction!)
BB p43	658	Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
BB p43	659	Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
BB p43	660	Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine,
BB p44	661	One of the great nation, {+the nation of many nations+}, the smallest the same, and the largest the same,
BB p44	662	A [-s-] {+S+} outherner soon as a [-n-] {+N+} ortherner [-,-] {+—+} , a planter non- chalant and hospitable, {+down by the Oconee I live,+}
BB p44	663	A Yankee, bound my own way, ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth,
BB p44	664	A Kentuckian, walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, {+a Louisianian, or Georgian+}
BB p44	665	A boatman over lakes or bays, or along coasts—a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye,
BB p44	666	A [-Louisianian or Georgian-] {+Carolinian North or South+} —a [-Poke-easy-] {+man+} from sand- hills and pines [-,-] {+;+}
BB p44	667	At home on Kanadian snow-shoes, or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland,
BB p44	668	At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest, and tacking, [- {+in winter,+} -]
BB p44	669	At home on the hills of Vermont, or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch [-,-] {+;+}
BB p44	670	Comrade of Californians—comrade of free [-n-] {+N+} orth- westerners, [-and-] {+(+}loving their big proportions [- {+best)+} -], {+)+}
BB p44	671	Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat [-,-] {+;+}
BB p44	672	A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thought- fullest [-,-] {+;+}
BB p44	673	A novice beginning, yet experient of myriads of seasons,
BB p44	674	Of every hue, [-trade, rank, caste-] {+& caste am I,+} {+of every rank+} and religion [-,-] {+.+} ,
BB p44	675	Not merely of the New World, but of Africa, Europe, Asia—a wandering savage,
BB p44	676	A farmer, mechanic, artist, < [-gentleman,-] > sailor, [-lover,-] < [-quaker,-] > [- {+and priest.+} -]
BB p45	677	A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest.
BB p45	678	I resist anything better than my own diversity,
BB p45	679	[-And-] {+I+} breathe the air, [-and-] {+but+} and leave plenty after me [-,-] {+.+} ,
BB p45	680	out
BB p45	681	out
BB p45	682	{+(+}And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
BB p45	683	{+(+}The moth and the fish-eggs are in their place [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	684	The suns I see, and the suns I cannot see, are in their place [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	685	The palpable is in its place, and the impalpable is in its place.
BB p45	686	< [-These-] > are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands—they are not original with me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	687	If they are not yours as much as mine, they are nothing, or next to nothing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	688	If they do not enclose everything, they are next to nothing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	689	If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle, they are nothing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	690	If they are not just as close as they are distant, they are nothing.
BB p45	691	This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is [-,-] {+;+}
BB p45	692	This is the common air that bathes the globe.
BB p45	693	This is the breath for America, [-because it is my-] [-breath,-]
BB p45	694	[-This is for laws, songs, behavior,-]
BB p45	695	This [-is the tasteless water of Souls—this is-] the true sustenance [-.-] {+—+} {+&This the law, so gentle+}
BB p45	696	[-This-] {+That+} shall yet rule the world, and be received willingly.
BB p46	697	This is for the [-illiterate, and for the judges of the-] [-Supreme Court, and for the-] Federal capitol and the State capitols,
BB p46	698	And for the [-admirable-] communes of literats, com- posers, singers, lecturers, engineers, and savans [-,-] {+;+}
BB p46	699	And {+no less+}for the endless races of work-people, farmers, and seamen [- [-.-] {+,+} no less than they.-]
BB p46	700	This is the trilling of thousands of clear cornets, screaming of octave flutes, striking of triangles.
BB p46	701	With music [-new-] {+strong+} I come, with {+my+} cornets [-& flutes-] & my drums
BB p46	702	I play not [-here-] marches {+great+} < [-for-] > victors only [-—-] {+¶+} I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
BB p46	703	Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?
BB p46	704	I also say it is good to fall—battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
BB p46	705	I beat [- {+my+} -] [-triumphal drums-] {+& pound [-d-]+} for the dead,
BB p46	706	I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest [-music to-] {+[-notes-] for+} them.
BB p46	707	Vivas to those who have failed!
BB p46	708	And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
BB p46	709	And those themselves who sank in the sea!
BB p46	710	And to all generals that lost engagements! and all overcome heroes!
BB p46	711	And the numberless unknown heroes, equal to the greatest heroes known.
BB p46	712	This is the meal pleasantly set—this is the meat [-and-] [-drink-] for natural hunger,
BB p46	713	It is for the wicked just the same as the righteous—I make appointments with all,
BB p47	714	I will not have < [-a single-] > [- {+one+} -] person slighted or left away [-,-] {+;+}
BB p47	715	The kept-woman, sponger, thief, are hereby invited,
BB p47	716	The heavy-lipp [-e-] {+'+} d slave is invited—the venerealee is invited,
BB p47	717	There shall be no difference between them and the rest.
BB p47	718	This is the press of a bashful hand—this [-is-] the float and odor of hair,
BB p47	719	This is the touch of my lips to yours—this [-is-] the murmur of yearning,
BB p47	720	This is the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face,
BB p47	721	This [-is-] the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again.
BB p47	722	Do you guess I have some intricate purpose?
BB p47	723	Well, I have—for the Fourth{+‑+} [-M-] {+m+} onth showers have, ¶and the mica on the side of a rock has.
BB p47	724	Do you take it I would astonish?
BB p47	725	Does the daylight astonish? Does the early redstart, twittering through the woods?
BB p47	726	Do I astonish more than they?
BB p47	727	This hour I tell things in confidence,
BB p47	728	I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
BB p47	729	Who goes there [-!-] {+?+} hankering, gross, mystical, nude [-?-] {+.+} [- {+!+} -] [- {+:+} {+;+} -]
BB p47	730	[-How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?-]
BB p47	731	What is a man anyhow? What am I? What are you?
BB p48	732	All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own,
BB p48	733	Else it were time lost listening to me.
BB p48	734	I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
BB p48	735	That months are vacuums, and the ground but wallow and filth,
BB p48	736	That life is a [-suck and a sell,-] {+hollow game,+} and nothing remains at the end [- {+¶+} -] < [-but threadbare crape, and tears.-] >
BB p48	737	Whimpering and truckling fold with powders for invalids—conformity goes to the fourth-removed,
BB p48	738	I [-cock-] {+wear+} my hat as I please, indoors or out.
BB p48	739	Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?
BB p48	740	Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsell'd with doctors, and calculated close,
BB p48	741	I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones [-.-] {+,+} [- {+and can hear of none in the past.+} -]
BB p48	742	In all people I see myself—none more, and not one a barleycorn less,
BB p48	743	And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them.
BB p48	744	And I know I am solid and sound,
BB p48	745	To me the converging objects of the universe per- petually flow,
BB p48	746	All are written to me, and I must get what the writing means.
BB p48	747	I know I am deathless [-,-] {+;+} I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	748	I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.
BB p49	749	I know I am august [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	750	I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	751	I see that the elementary laws never apologize [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	752	{+(+}I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all. {+)+}
BB p49	753	I exist as I am—that is enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	754	If no other in the world be aware, I sit content [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	755	And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
BB p49	756	One world is aware, and by far the largest to me, and that is myself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	757	And whether I come to my own to-day, or in ten thousand or ten million years,
BB p49	758	I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerful- ness I can wait
BB p49	759	My foothold is tenoned and mortised in granite [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	760	I laugh at what you call dissolution,
BB p49	761	And I know the amplitude of time.
BB p49	762	I am the poet of the body,
BB p49	763	And I am the poet of the Soul.
BB p49	764	The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p49	765	The first I graft and increase upon myself—the latter I translate into a new tongue.
BB p50	766	I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
BB p50	767	And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
BB p50	768	And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
BB p50	769	I chant the chant of dilation or pride [-,-] {+;+}
BB p50	770	We have had ducking and deprecating about enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p50	771	I show that size is only development.
BB p50	772	Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President?
BB p50	773	It is a trifle—they will more than arrive there every one, and still pass on.
BB p50	774	I am [-H-] {+h+} e that walks with the tender and growing [-N-] {+n+} ight [-,-] {+;+}
BB p50	775	I call to the earth and sea, half-held by the [-N-] {+n+} ight.
BB p50	776	Press close, bare-bosomed [-N-] {+n+} ight! [-P-] {+p+} ress close, mag- netic, nourishing [-N-] {+n+} ight!
BB p50	777	Night of south winds! [-N-] {+n+} ight of the large few stars!
BB p50	778	Still, nodding < [-n-] > {+N+} ight! [-M-] {+m+} ad, naked, summer < [-n-] > {+N+} ight.
BB p50	779	Smile, O voluptuous, cool-breath [-e-] {+'+} [-d-] {+t+} ed Earth!
BB p50	780	Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
BB p50	781	Earth of departed sunset! [-E-] {+e+} arth of the mountains, misty-topt!
BB p50	782	Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon, just tinged with blue!
BB p50	783	Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!
BB p50	784	Earth of the limpid gray of clouds, brighter and clearer for my sake!
BB p51	785	Far-swooping elbow [-e-] {+'+} d [-E-] {+e+} arth! [-R-] {+r+} ich, apple-blossom [-e-] {+'+} d [-E-] {+e+} arth!
BB p51	786	Smile, for [-Y-] {+y+} OUR LOVER comes!
BB p51	787	Prodigal, you have given me love! Therefore I to you give love!
BB p51	788	O unspeakable passionate love!
BB p51	789	Thruster holding me tight, and that I hold tight!
BB p51	790	We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride hurt each other.
BB p51	791	You [-S-] {+s+} ea! I resign myself to you also—I guess what you mean [-,-] {+;+}
BB p51	792	I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
BB p51	793	I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
BB p51	794	We must have a turn together—I undress—hurry me out of sight of the land,
BB p51	795	Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse,
BB p51	796	Dash me with amorous wet—I can repay you.
BB p51	797	Sea of stretched ground-swells!
BB p51	798	Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!
BB p51	799	Sea of the brine of life! [-S-] {+s+} ea of unshovell [-e-] {+'+}d{+,+} [-and-] {+yet+} always-ready graves!
BB p51	800	Howler and scooper of storms! [-C-] {+c+} apricious and dainty [-S-] {+s+} ea!
BB p51	801	I am integral with you—I too am of one phase, and of all phases.
BB p51	802	Partaker of influx and efflux{+,+} {+I,+}—extoller of hate and conciliation,
BB p51	803	Extoller of amies, and those that sleep in each others' arms.
BB p52	804	I am he attesting sympathy,
BB p52	805	{+(+}Shall I make my list of things in the house, and skip the house that supports them?{+)+}
BB p52	806	I am [-the poet of common sense, and of the demon- strable, and of immortality,-]
BB p52	807	[-And am-] not the poet of goodness only [-—-] {+¶+} I do not decline to be the poet of wickedness also.
BB p52	808	Washes and razors for [-foofoos-] {+those that will— +} —for me freckles and a bristling beard.
BB p52	809	What blurt is this about virtue and about vice?
BB p52	810	Evil propels me, and reform of evil propels me—I stand {+quite+} indifferent [-,-] {+;+}
BB p52	811	My gait < [-is-] > [- {+shall be+} -] no fault-finder's or rejecter's gait,
BB p52	812	I moisten the roots of all that has grown.
BB p52	813	Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?
BB p52	814	Did you guess the celestial laws are yet to be worked over and rectified?
BB p52	815	¶ I say [-that if you-] [- {+ever+} -] expect [-that-] {+no+} different laws from the laws of to‑day,
BB p52	816	Nor after death {+either+}—for the laws of life are the same.
BB p52	817	I [-step up to-] say [-that what we do is right, and what -] [- we affirm is right—and some is only the ore of right, -]
BB p52	818	[-Witnesses of us—-]{+I call+} one side [- {+is+} -] a balance, < [-and-] > [- {+as much as+} -] and the antip- odal side [- {+is+} -] a balance,
BB p52	819	[- {+And+} -]Soft doctrine [- {+is just+} -] as steady help as stable doctrine, [-,-] {+.+}
BB p52	820	< [-Thoughts and deeds of the present, our rouse and early start. -] >
BB p52	821	This minute that comes to me over the past decillions,
BB p52	822	There is no better than it and now.
BB p53	823	What behaved well in the past, or behaves well to-day, is not such a wonder[-,-] [- {+to me+} -]
BB p53	824	The wonder is, always and always, how can there be a mean man or an infidel.
BB p53	825	Endless unfolding of words of ages!
BB p53	826	And mine [-a-] {+the+} a word of the modern— [-a-] {+the+} word [-e-] {+E+} n-masse.
BB p53	827	A word of the faith that never balks,
BB p53	828	[-One time as good as another time—-] [-h-] {+H+} ere or hence- forward, {++} < [-it is all the same to me.-] > {+—I accept [-all-] {+ [-t-] {+T+} ime absolutely,+}+}
BB p53	829	(It [-is w-] alone is without flaw— it rounds[-— -] completes all
BB p53	830	That mystic baffling wonder I love, {+alone+} completes all)
BB p53	831	[-A word of-] {+I accept reality+} reality{+,+} {+& dare not question it+} —materialism first and last im- buing.
BB p53	832	Hurrah for positive Science! long live exact demon- stration!
BB p53	833	Fetch stonecrop, mixt with cedar and branches of lilac,
BB p53	834	This is the lexicographer—this the chemist—this made a grammar of the old cartouches,
BB p53	835	These mariners put the ship through dangerous un- known seas,
BB p53	836	This is the geologist—this works with the scalpel— and this is a mathematician.
BB p53	837	Gentlemen! [-I receive you, and attach and-] {+to you the [-first-] {+great+} honors, {+always,+}+} [-clasp-] [-hands with you, -][- {+(I would {+nestle+} nursing you as a little child.)+} -]
BB p53	838	[-The-] {+Your+} facts are useful and real [-—-] {+—& yet+} they are not my dwelling—{+¶(+}I {+but+} enter by them to an area of [-the-] {+my+} dwelling.{+)+}
BB p53	839	[-I am-] [-l-] {+L+} ess the reminder{+s+} of [-property or qualities-] {+qualities {+told+} [-remain-]+}, {+¶+} {+[-are-] my words+} and {+And+} more the reminder{+s+} of life[-,-] {+my words.+} {+untold,+}
BB p54	840	[-And go on the square for my own sake and for others' sakes, -]
BB p54	841	And make short account of neuters and geldings, and favor men and women fully equip [-ped-] {+t+} ,
BB p54	842	And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives, and them that plot and conspire.
BB p54	843	Walt Whitman, {+am I, of mighty Manhattan the son,+} [-an American, one of the roughs, a-] [-kosmos,-] [- -]
BB p54	844	[-Disorderly-] {+Turbulent+} , fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking, {+and+} breeding,
BB p54	845	No sentimentalist—no stander above men and wo- men, or apart from them,
BB p54	846	No more modest than immodest.
BB p54	847	Unscrew the locks from the doors!
BB p54	848	Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
BB p54	849	Whoever degrades another degrades me,
BB p54	850	And whatever is done or said returns at last to me [-,-] {+.+}
BB p54	851	[-And whatever I do or say, I also return.-]
BB p54	852	Through me the afflatus surging and surging— through me the current and index.
BB p54	853	({+Now+} Let my [-extatic-] {+[-now-] extatic+} craze rage—I but sing {+anyhow+} to please {+& vent myself+} [-myself.)-]
BB p54	854	[- -] {+To+} express that volcano, [-myself.)-] {+my will.)+}
BB p54	855	I speak the pass-word primeval—I give the sign of < [-democracy,-] > [- {+ for brother & father,+} -]
BB p54	856	By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.
BB p54	857	Through me many long dumb voices,
BB p54	858	Voices of the interminable generations of slaves,
BB p54	859	Voices of prostitutes, and of deformed persons,
BB p54	860	Voices of the diseased and despairing, and of thieves and dwarfs,
BB p55	861	Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,
BB p55	862	And of the threads that connect the stars—and of wombs, and of the fatherstuff,
BB p55	863	And of the rights of < [-them-] > [- {+[-those-] {+all+} whom+} -] the others are down upon,
BB p55	864	Of the trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
BB p55	865	{+(+}Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.{+)+}
BB p55	866	Through me forbidden voices,
BB p55	867	Voices of sexes and lusts—voices veil [-e-] {+'+} d, and I remove the veil,
BB p55	868	Voices indecent, by me clarified and transfigur [-e-] {+'+} d.
BB p55	869	< [-I do not-] > {+Why should I+} press my finger < [-across-] > my mouth, [- {+Let who t close?+} -]
BB p55	870	[- {+for+} -]I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
BB p55	871	Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
BB p55	872	I believe in the flesh and the appetites,
BB p55	873	Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
BB p55	874	Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy what- ever I touch or am touch [-ed-] {+t+} from,
BB p55	875	The scent of these arm-pits, aroma finer than prayer,
BB p55	876	This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
BB p55	877	If I worship [-any particular thing-] {+one thing more than another+} , it shall be [-some of-] the spread of my own body[-.-] {+,or any part of it;+}
BB p55	878	Translucent mould of me, it shall be you!
BB p55	879	Shaded ledges and rests, it shall be you!
BB p55	880	Firm masculine colter, it shall be you.
BB p56	881	Whatever goes to the tilth of me, it shall be you!
BB p56	882	You my rich blood [-!-] {+— +} [-Y-] {+y+} our milky stream, pale strip- pings of my life.
BB p56	883	Breast that presses against other breasts, it shall be you!
BB p56	884	My brain, it shall be your occult convolutions.
BB p56	885	Root of wash [-ed-] {+t+} sweet-flag [-!-] {+—+} [-T-] {+t+} imorous pond-snipe [-!-] {+—+} [-N-] {+n+} est of guarded duplicate eggs [-!-] {+—+} it shall be you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	886	Mix [-ed-] {+t+} tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	887	Trickling sap of maple [-!-] {+—+} [-F-] {+fi+} ibre of manly wheat [-!-] {+—+} it shall be you [-!-] {+.+}
BB p56	888	[- {+The+} -] [- {+Else+} -] Sun so generous, it shall be {+also+} you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	889	Vapors lighting and shading my face, it shall be you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	890	You sweaty brooks and dews, it shall be you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	891	Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me, it shall be you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	892	Broad, muscular fields [-!-] {+—+} [-B-] {+b+} ranches of live oak [-!-] {+—+} [-L-] {+l+} ov- ing lounger in my winding paths [-!-] {+—+} it shall be you [-!-] {+;+}
BB p56	893	Hands I have taken—face I have kissed—mortal I have ever touch [-ed-] {+t+} [-!-] {+—+} it shall be you.
BB p56	894	[- {+O+} -] I dote on myself—there is that lot of me, and all so luscious,
BB p56	895	Each moment, and whatever happens, thrills me with joy.
BB p57	896	O I am [-so-] wonderful!
BB p57	897	I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
BB p57	898	Nor the cause of the < [-friendship-] > [- {+love so tender+} -] I emit, nor the cause of the < [-friendship-] > [- {+love+} -] I take again.
BB p57	899	That I walk up my stoop [-,-] {+!+} I pause to consider if it really be [-,-] {+;+}
BB p57	900	[-That I eat and drink is spectacle enough [- {+to me+} -] for the great authors and schools, [- {+ d +} -] [- {+me,+} -] [- {+beyond all operas & plays,+} -] -]
BB p57	901	A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
BB p57	902	To behold the day-break!
BB p57	903	The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
BB p57	904	The air tastes good to my palate.
BB p57	905	Hefts of the moving world, at innocent gambols, silently rising, freshly exuding,
BB p57	906	Scooting obliquely high and low.
BB p57	907	Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
BB p57	908	Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
BB p57	909	The earth by the sky staid with—the daily close of their junction,
BB p57	910	The heav [-e-] {+'+} d challenge from the east that moment over my head,
BB p57	911	The mocking taunt, {+See then whether you shall be+} {+master!+}
BB p58	912	Dazzling and tremendous, how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
BB p58	913	If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
BB p58	914	We also ascend, dazzling and tremendous as the sun,
BB p58	915	We found our own, O my Soul, in the calm and cool of the day-break.
BB p58	916	My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach,
BB p58	917	With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds, and volumes of worlds.
BB p58	918	Speech is the twin of my vision—it is unequal to measure itself;
BB p58	919	It provokes me forever, {+ [-It says-] [-— saying sarcastically, {+Do you call this expressing yourself?+}-] +}
BB p58	920	[-It says sarcastically, Walt, you [-understand-] {+contain+} enough— why don't you let it out then? -]
BB p58	921	< [-Come now, I will not be tantalized—-] > [- {+the speech and +} -] [-you-] {+—it+} conceive{+s+} [-too-] {+so+} too much of articulation.
BB p58	922	Do you < [-not-] > know [- {+ +} -] {+O [- {+my+} -] speech+} how the buds beneath {+you+} are folded?
BB p58	923	Waiting in gloom, protected by frost,
BB p58	924	The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
BB p58	925	I underlying causes, to balance them at last,
BB p58	926	My knowledge my live parts—it keeping tally with the meaning of things,
BB p58	927	{+Happiness+}—which, whoever hears me, let him or her set out in search of this day.
BB p58	928	My final merit I refuse < [-you-] >—I refuse putting from me [-the best-] {+what+} I am.
BB p59	929	Encompass worlds, [- {+O speech[-,-] and pen!+} -] but never try to encompass me,
BB p59	930	I crowd your sleekest [-talk-] {+and best+} by simply looking toward you.
BB p59	931	Writing and talk do not prove me,
BB p59	932	I carry the plenum of proof, and everything else, in my face,
BB p59	933	With the hush of my lips I {+wholly+} confound the [-topmost-] skeptic.
BB p59	934	I think I will do nothing [-for a long time-] {+now+} but listen,
BB p59	935	To accrue what I hear into myself—to let sounds contribute toward me.
BB p59	936	I hear bravuras of birds, bustle of growing wheat, {+¶+}gossip of flames, clack of sticks cooking my meals [-.-] {+;+}
BB p59	937	I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice [-,-] {+;+}
BB p59	938	I hear < [-all-] > sounds running together, combined, fused or following,
BB p59	939	Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city— sounds of the day and night,
BB p59	940	Talkative young{+‑+}[- -]ones to those that like them[-—the-] [-recitative of fish-pedlers and fruit-pedlers-]—the loud laugh of work-people at their meals,
BB p59	941	The angry base of disjointed friendship—the faint tones of the sick,
BB p59	942	The judge with hands tight to the desk, his [-shaky-] {+pallid+} lips pronouncing a death-sentence,
BB p59	943	The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves—the refrain of the anchor-lifters,
BB p60	944	The ring of alarm-bells—the cry of fire—the whirr of swift-streaking engines and hose-carts, with premonitory tinkles, and colored lights,
BB p60	945	The steam-whistle—the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
BB p60	946	The slow-march played < [-at night-] > at the head of the association, marching two and two, [- {+as the day declines,+} -]
BB p60	947	(They go to guard some corpse—the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
BB p60	948	I hear the violoncello, [-or-] {+('tis the young+} man's heart's complaint;{+)+}
BB p60	949	I hear the keyed cornet—it glides quickly in through my ears,
BB p60	950	It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast.
BB p60	951	I hear the chorus—it is a grand[---]opera [-,-] {+;+}
BB p60	952	Ah, this indeed is music! This suits me.
BB p60	953	A tenor large and fresh as the creation fills me,
BB p60	954	The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
BB p60	955	I hear the trained soprano [-—she convulses me like-] [-the climax of my love-grip,-]{+(what work {+with hers,+}is this?)+}
BB p60	956	The orchestra wrenches such ardors from me, I did not know I possessed them,
BB p60	957	[-It throbs me to gulps of the farthest down horror,-]
BB p60	958	It sails me—I dab with bare feet—they are licked by the indolent waves,
BB p60	959	I am exposed, cut by bitter [-and poisoned-] {+& angry+} hail[-,-] {+— I lose my breath+}
BB p60	960	Steeped amid honeyed morphine, my windpipe {+is+} throt- tled [-in fakes of death-],
BB p61	961	At length [- {+I am+} -] let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
BB p61	962	And that we call BEING.
BB p61	963	To be in any form—what is that?
BB p61	964	(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither [-,-] {+;+} )
BB p61	965	If nothing lay more developed, the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
BB p61	966	Mine is no callous shell,
BB p61	967	I have instant conductors all over me, whether I pass or stop,
BB p61	968	They seize every object, and lead it harmlessly through me.
BB p61	969	I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy,
BB p61	970	To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
BB p61	971	Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
BB p61	972	Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
BB p61	973	Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
BB p61	974	My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly different from myself,
BB p61	975	On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
BB p61	976	Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
BB p61	977	Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
BB p61	978	Depriving me of my best, as for a purpose,
BB p61	979	Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
BB p62	980	Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sun-light and pasture-fields,
BB p62	981	Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
BB p62	982	They bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me,
BB p62	983	No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
BB p62	984	Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
BB p62	985	Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
BB p62	986	The sentries desert every other part of me,
BB p62	987	They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
BB p62	988	They all come to the headland, to witness and assist against me.
BB p62	989	I am given up by traitors,
BB p62	990	I talk wildly—I have lost my wits—I and nobody else am the greatest traitor,
BB p62	991	I went myself first to the headland—my own hands carried me there.
BB p62	992	You villain touch! what are you doing? My breath is tight in its throat,
BB p62	993	Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me.
BB p62	994	Blind, loving, wrestling touch! sheathed, hooded, sharp-toothed touch!
BB p62	995	Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
BB p62	996	Parting, tracked by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan,
BB p63	997	Rich showering rain, and recompense richer after- ward.
BB p63	998	Sprouts take and accumulate—stand by the curb prolific and vital,
BB p63	999	Landscapes, projected, masculine, full-sized, and golden.
BB p63	1000	All truths wait in all things,
BB p63	1001	They neither hasten their own delivery, nor resist it,
BB p63	1002	They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
BB p63	1003	The insignificant is as big to me as any,
BB p63	1004	{+(+}What is less or more than a touch?{+)+}
BB p63	1005	Logic and sermons never convince,
BB p63	1006	The damp of the night drives deeper into my Soul.
BB p63	1007	Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
BB p63	1008	Only what nobody denies is so.
BB p63	1009	A minute and a drop of me settle my brain,
BB p63	1010	I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
BB p63	1011	And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
BB p63	1012	And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
BB p63	1013	And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
BB p63	1014	And until every one shall delight us, and we them.
BB p64	1015	I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey- work of the stars,
BB p64	1016	And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren,
BB p64	1017	And the tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre for the highest,
BB p64	1018	And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
BB p64	1019	And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
BB p64	1020	And the cow crunching with depressed head surpasses any statue,
BB p64	1021	And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,
BB p64	1022	< [-And I could come every afternoon of my life to look at the farmer's girl boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking short-cake.-] >
BB p64	1023	I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent roots,
BB p64	1024	And am stucco [-e-] {+'+} d with quadrupeds and birds all over,
BB p64	1025	And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
BB p64	1026	And call anything close again, when I desire it.
BB p64	1027	In vain the speeding or shyness [-,-] {+;+}
BB p64	1028	In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach [-,-] {+;+}
BB p64	1029	In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own pow- dered bones [-,-] {+;+}
BB p64	1030	In vain objects stand leagues off, and assume manifold shapes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p64	1031	In vain the ocean settling in hollows, and the great monsters lying low,
BB p65	1032	In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1033	In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1034	In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1035	In vain the razor-bill [-e-] {+'+} d auk sails far north to Labrador [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1036	I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
BB p65	1037	I think I could {+almost+} turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1038	< [-I stand and look at them-] > [-sometimes an hour at a-] {+long & long. [-to absorb them.-]+} [-stretch.-]
BB p65	1039	They do not sweat and whine about their condition [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1040	They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1041	They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1042	No one is dissatisfied—not one is demented with the mania of owning things [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1043	Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1044	Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.
BB p65	1045	So they show their relations to me, and I accept them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p65	1046	They bring me tokens of myself—they evince them plainly in their possession.
BB p65	1047	I [-do not know-] {+wonder+} where they get those tokens [-,-] {+;+}
BB p66	1048	[-I [- {+N+} -] may have [- {+ +} -] passed-] {+Did I pass+} that way untold times ago, and negligently dropt them,
BB p66	1049	Myself moving forward then and now forever,
BB p66	1050	Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
BB p66	1051	Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them [-,-] {+;+} ,
BB p66	1052	Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remem- brancers,
BB p66	1053	Picking < [-out-] > [- {+ +} -] < [-here-] > [- {+t+} -] one [- {+,+} -] < [-that I love,-] > [-to-] {+and now+} go with {+him+} on brotherly terms.
BB p66	1054	A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
BB p66	1055	Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
BB p66	1056	Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
BB p66	1057	Eyes well apart, full of sparkling wickedness—ears finely cut, flexibly moving.
BB p66	1058	His nostrils dilate, as my heels embrace him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p66	1059	His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure, as we speed around and return.
BB p66	1060	I but use you a moment, then I resign you stallion [-,-] {+;+}
BB p66	1061	{+(+}Why do I need your paces, when I myself out-gallop them?
BB p66	1062	Even, as I stand or sit, passing faster than you.{+)+}
BB p66	1063	< [-O-] > swift wind! [- {+O+} -] [-S-] {+s+} pace {+and Time!+}[-!-] [-my Soul!-] now I [-know-] {+see+} it is true, what I guess [-ed-] {+'d+} at [-,-] {+;+}
BB p66	1064	What I guess [-e-] {+'+} d when I loaf [-e-] {+'+} d on the grass [-,-] {+;+}
BB p66	1065	What I guess [-e-] {+'+} d while I lay alone in my bed,
BB p66	1066	And again as I walk [-e-] {+'+} d the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
BB p67	1067	My ties and ballasts leave me—I travel[-—-] [-I-] {+and+} sail— my elbows rest in the sea-gaps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1068	I skirt the sierras—my palms cover continents [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1069	I am afoot with my vision < [-.-] >[-{+s+}>-]
BB p67	1070	By the city's quadrangular houses—in log huts— camping with lumbermen [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1071	Along the ruts of the turnpike—along the dry gulch and rivulet bed [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1072	Weeding my onion-patch, or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips—crossing savannas—trailing in forests [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1073	Prospecting—gold-digging—girdling the trees of a new purchase [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1074	Scorch [-e-] {+'+} d ankle-deep by the hot sand—hauling my boat down the shallow river [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1075	Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb over- head —Where the buck turns furiously at the hunter [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1076	Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock—Where the otter is feeding on fish [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1077	Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1078	Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey —Where the beaver pats the mud with his paddle[---]{+‑shaped+}tail [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1079	Over the growing sugar—over the {+yellow flower [-ed-] {+'d+} +} cotton plant— over the rice in its low moist field [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1080	Over the sharp-peak [-e-] {+'+} d farm house, with its scallop [-e-] {+'+} d scum and slender shoots from the gutters [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1081	Over the western persimmon—over the long-leav [-e-] {+'+} d corn—over the delicate blue-flower[-ed-] flax [-,-] {+;+}
BB p67	1082	Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with the rest [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1083	Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze [-,-] {+;+} ;
BB p68	1084	Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low scragged limbs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1085	Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1086	Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1087	Where the bat flies in the Seventh Month eve—
BB p68	1088	Where the great gold-bug drops through the dark [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1089	Where the flails keep time on the barn floor [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1090	Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to the meadow [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1091	Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous shuddering of their hides [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1092	Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen—Where andirons straddle the hearth-slab—Where cob- webs fall in festoons from the rafters [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1093	Where trip-hammers crash—Where the press is whirling its cylinders [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1094	Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes out of its ribs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1095	Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, float- ing in it myself and looking composedly down [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1096	Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose—Where the heat hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1097	Where the she-whale swims with her calf, and never forsakes it [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1098	Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pen- nant of smoke [-,-] {+;+}
BB p68	1099	Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1100	Where the half-burn [-e-] {+'+} d brig is riding on unknown currents,
BB p69	1101	Where shells grow to her slimy deck—Where the dead are corrupting below [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1102	Where the [-striped and-] {+dense‑+} starr [-e-] {+'+} d flag is borne at the head of the regiments [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1103	Approaching Manhattan, up by the long-stretching island [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1104	Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1105	Upon a door-step—upon the horse-block of hard wood outside [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1106	Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs, or a good game of base-ball [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1107	At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking, laughter,
BB p69	1108	At the cider-mill, tasting the sweet of the brown [-sqush,-] {+mash—+} sucking the juice through a straw [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1109	At apple-peelings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1110	At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;
BB p69	1111	{+—+}Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gur- gles, cackles, screams, weeps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1112	Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard—Where the dry-stalks are scattered—Where the brood cow waits in the hovel [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1113	Where the bull advances to do his masculine work— Where the stud to the mare—Where the cock is treading the hen [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1114	Where heifers browse—Where geese nip their food with short jerks [-,-] {+;+}
BB p69	1115	Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1116	Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1117	Where the humming-bird shimmers—Where the neck of the long-lived swan is curving and winding [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1118	Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her near-human laugh [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1119	Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden, half hid by the high weeds [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1120	Where band-necked partridges roost in a ring on the ground with their heads out [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1121	Where burial coaches enter the arched gates of a cemetery [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1122	Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1123	Where the yellow-crown [-e-] {+'+} d heron comes to the edge of the marsh at night and feeds upon small crabs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1124	Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1125	Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1126	Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1127	Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under con- ical firs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1128	Through the gymnasium—through the curtain [-e-] {+'+} d saloon—through the office or public hall [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1129	Pleas [-e-] {+'+} d with the native, and pleased with the foreign —pleas [-e-] {+'+} d with the new and old [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1130	Pleas [-e-] {+'+} d with women, the homely as well as the handsome [-,-] {+;+}
BB p70	1131	Pleas [-e-] {+'+} d with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1132	Pleas [-e-] {+'+} d with the tunes of the choir of the white- washed church [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1133	Pleas [-e-] {+'+} d with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher, or any preacher—Impress [-e-] {+'+} d seriously at the camp-meeting [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1134	Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon—{+(+}flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate-glass [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p71	1135	Wandering the same afternoon with my face turned up to the clouds,
BB p71	1136	My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
BB p71	1137	{+—+}Coming home with the silent and dark-cheeked bush-boy—riding behind him at the drape of the day [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1138	Far from the settlements, studying the print of ani- mals' feet, or the moccason print [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1139	By the cot in the hospital, reaching lemonade to a feverish patient [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1140	By the coffin [-e-] {+'+} d corpse when all is still, examining with a candle [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1141	Voyaging to every port, to dicker and adventure [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1142	Hurrying with the modern crowd, as eager and fickle as any [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1143	Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1144	Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1145	Walking the old hills of Judea, with the beautiful gentle God by my side [-,-] {+;+}
BB p71	1146	Speeding through space—speeding through heaven and the stars [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1147	Speeding amid the seven satellites, and the broad ring, and the diameter of eighty thousand miles [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1148	Speeding with tail [-e-] {+'+} d meteors—{+(+}throwing fire-balls like the rest,{+)+}
BB p72	1149	Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother{+,+} [-in its belly [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p72	1150	Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
BB p72	1151	Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
BB p72	1152	I tread day and night such roads.
BB p72	1153	I visit the orchards of spheres, and look at the product,
BB p72	1154	And look at quintillions ripen [-e-] {+'+} d, and look at quin- tillions green.
BB p72	1155	I fly the flight of the fluid and swallowing [-s-] {+S+} oul [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1156	My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
BB p72	1157	I help myself to material and immaterial [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1158	No guard can shut me off, nor law prevent me.
BB p72	1159	I anchor my ship for a little while only [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1160	My messengers continually cruise away, or bring their returns to me.
BB p72	1161	I go hunting polar furs and the seal[-—-]{+¶+}Leaping chasms with a pike-pointed staff— [-C-] {+c+} linging to topples of brittle and blue.
BB p72	1162	I ascend to the foretruck [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1163	I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1164	We sail the arctic sea—it is plenty light enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p72	1165	Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1166	The enormous masses of ice pass me, and I pass them —the scenery is plain in all directions [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1167	The white-top[-ped-] mountains show in the distance— I fling out my fancies toward them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1168	{+(+}We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to be engaged [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1169	We pass the colossal out-posts of the encampment— we pass with still feet and caution [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1170	Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin [-e-] {+'+} d city [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1171	The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe. {+)+}
BB p73	1172	I am a free companion—I bivouac by invading watchfires.
BB p73	1173	I turn the bridegroom out of bed, and stay with the bride myself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1174	I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
BB p73	1175	My voice is the wife's voice, the screech by the rail of the stairs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1176	They fetch my man's body up, dripping and drown [-e-] {+'+} d.
BB p73	1177	I understand the large hearts of heroes,
BB p73	1178	The courage of present times and all times [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1179	How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the steam-ship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm [-,-] {+;+}
BB p73	1180	How he knuckled tight, and gave not back one inch, and was faithful of days and faithful of nights,
BB p73	1181	And chalk [-e-] {+'+} d in large letters, on a board, Be of good cheer, We will not desert you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1182	{+—+}How he follow [-e-] {+'+} d with them, and tack [-e-] {+'+} d with them— and would not give it up [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1183	How he saved the drifting company at last [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1184	How the lank loose-gown [-e-] {+'+} d women look [-e-] {+'+} d when boated from the side of their prepared graves [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1185	How the silent old-faced infants, and the lifted sick, and the sharp-lipp [-e-] {+'+} d unshaved men [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1186	All this I swallow—it tastes good—I like it well— it becomes mine [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1187	I am the man—I suffer [-e-] {+'+} d—I was there.
BB p74	1188	The disdain and calmness of martyrs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1189	The mother, condemn [-e-] {+'+} d for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her children gazing on [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1190	The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the the fence, blowing, cover [-e-] {+'+} d with sweat [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1191	The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck —the murderous buck-shot and the bullets [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1192	All these I feel or am.
BB p74	1193	I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1194	Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1195	I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn [-e-] {+'+} d with the ooze of my skin [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1196	I fall on the weeds and stones [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1197	The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
BB p74	1198	Taunt my dizzy ears, and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.
BB p74	1199	Agonies are one of my changes of garments [-,-] {+;+}
BB p74	1200	I do not ask the wounded < [-person-] > [- {+ +} -] how he feels—I myself become the wounded < [-person,-] > [- {+,+} -]
BB p75	1201	My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
BB p75	1202	I am the mash [-e-] {+'+} d fireman with breastbone broken [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1203	Tumbling walls buried me in their debris [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1204	Heat and smoke I inspired—I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1205	I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1206	They have clear [-e-] {+'+} d the beams away—they tenderly lift me forth.
BB p75	1207	I lie in the night air in my red shirt—the pervading hush is for my sake [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1208	Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so unhappy [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1209	White and beautiful are the faces around me—the heads are bared of their fire-caps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1210	The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.
BB p75	1211	Distant and dead resuscitate [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1212	They show as the dial or move as the hands of me— I am the clock myself.
BB p75	1213	I am an old artillerist—I tell of my fort's bombard- ment [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1214	I am there again.
BB p75	1215	Again the reveille of drummers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1216	Again the attacking cannon, {+& +}mortars, [-howitzers-] [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1217	Again the attack [-e-] {+'+} d send cannon responsive.
BB p75	1218	I take part—I see and hear the whole [-,-] {+;+}
BB p75	1219	The cries, curses, roar—the plaudits for well-aim [-e-] {+'+} d shots [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1220	The ambulanza slowly passing, trailing its red drip [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1221	Workmen searching after damages, making indis- pensable repairs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1222	The fall of grenades through the rent roof—the fan-shaped explosion [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1223	The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
BB p76	1224	Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general—he furiously waves with his hand [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1225	He gasps through the clot, Mind not me—mind— the entrenchments.
BB p76	1226	I tell not the fall of Alamo [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1227	Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1228	The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.
BB p76	1229	{+ Hear now {+what I [-saw in-] knew of {+ [-cold blood-] +}+} [-the deed at Goliad-] {+Texas+} in [-war,-] [- {+old times,+} -] {+my early youth;+} +}
BB p76	1230	Hear [-now-] the tale of the murder < [-in cold blood-] > of four hundred and twelve young men.
BB p76	1231	Retreating, they [- {+we+} -] formed in a hollow square, with their baggage for breastworks [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1232	Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy's, nine times their [- {+our+} -] number, was the price they took in advance [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1233	Their [- {+our+} -] colonel was wounded and < [-their-] > [- {+our+} -] ammunition gone [-,-] {+;+}
BB p76	1234	They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv [-e-] {+'+} d writing and seal, gave up their arms, < [-and-] > < [-marched back prisoners of war.-] >
BB p76	1235	They were the glory of the race of rangers,
BB p76	1236	Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
BB p77	1237	Large, turbulent, generous, brave, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
BB p77	1238	Bearded, sunburnt, dres [-sed-] {+t+} in the free costume of hunters,
BB p77	1239	Not a single one over thirty years of age.
BB p77	1240	The second First Day morning they [- {+we+} -] were brought out in squads {+to be+} and massacred< [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] [- {+¶Not one out of ten escaped;+} -] it was beautiful early summer [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1241	The work commenc [-e-] {+'+} d about five o'clock, and was over by eight.
BB p77	1242	None obey [-'-] {+'+} d the command to kneel [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1243	Some made a mad and helpless rush—some stood stark and straight [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1244	A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart—the living and dead lay together [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1245	The maim [-e-] {+'+} d and mangled dug in the dirt—the new- comers saw them there [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1246	{+—+}Some, half-kill [-e-] {+'+} d, attempted to crawl away [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1247	These were despatch [-e-] {+'+} d with bayonets, or batter [-e-] {+'+} d with the blunts of muskets [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1248	{+—+}A youth not seventeen years old seiz [-e-] {+'+} d his assassin till two more came to release him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p77	1249	The three were all torn, and cover [-e-] {+'+} d with the boy's blood.
BB p77	1250	At eleven o'clock began the burning of the bodies:
BB p77	1251	{+—+}That is the tale of the murder of the four hundred
BB p77	1252	and twelve young men.
BB p77	1253	[-Did you read in the sea-books{+,+} [-of-] the-] {+Would you [- {+also+} -] hear [- {+also+} -] a tale of the sea? of an {+would you hear+}+} old-fashion [-'-] {+'+} d
BB p77	1254	frigate-fight?
BB p77	1255	Now hear a tale of the sea— an old-fashion'd frigate fight [-!-] {+,+}
BB p77	1256	While I tell to you as my frandfather's father, the sailor, told it to me
BB p78	1257	[-Did-] {+Would+} you learn < [-who-] > [- {+how we+} -] who won by the light of the moon and stars?
BB p78	1258	List [-then-] to the tale, as my grandfather {+[-great-] father {+the sailor+} [-himself-]+} told it to me {+.+} [-in his old age.-]
BB p78	1259	[-He was in-]
BB p78	1260	Our foe{+,+} {+said he+} was no skulk in his ship, [-I tell you, {+said he,+}-]
BB p78	1261	His was the {+surely+} English pluck—{+(+}and there is no tougher or truer, {+said he,+} and never was, and {+will+} never [-will-] be;{+)+}
BB p78	1262	Along the lowered eve he came, horribly raking us.
BB p78	1263	We closed with him—the yards entangled—the cannon touch [-e-] {+'+} d [-,-] {+;+}
BB p78	1264	My captain lashed fast with his own hands.
BB p78	1265	We had receiv [-e-] {+'+} d some eighteen-pound shots under the water [-,-] {+;+}
BB p78	1266	On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire, killing all around, and blowing up overhead.
BB p78	1267	Ten o'clock at night, and the full moon [-shining-] {+bright+} , and the leaks on the gain, and five feet of water reported [-,-] {+;+}
BB p78	1268	The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold, to give them a chance for them- selves.
BB p78	1269	The transit to and from the magazine was now stop [-ped-] {+t+} by the sentinels [-,-] {+;+}
BB p78	1270	{+(+}They saw so many strange faces, they did not know whom to trust.{+)+}
BB p78	1271	Our frigate was afire [-,-] {+;+}
BB p78	1272	The other ask [-e-] {+'+} d if we demanded quarter?
BB p78	1273	If our colors were struck, and the fighting done?
BB p79	1274	{+Now+} I laugh [- [-e-] {+'+} d-] content [- {+said my grandfather's father,+} -] [-when-] {+for+} I hear[-d-] the voice of my little captain[-,-] {+(says my grandfather's father)+}
BB p79	1275	We have not struck, he composedly crie [-d-] {+s+} , We have just begun our part of the fighting.
BB p79	1276	Only three guns were {+are+} in use[-,-] [- {+; (says my grandfather's father, the sailor)+} -]
BB p79	1277	One [-was-] {+is+} directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1278	Two, well serv [-e-] {+'+} d with grape and canister, silence[-d-] his musketry and clear [- [-e-] {+'+} d-] his decks.
BB p79	1279	The tops alone second[-ed-] the fire of this little battery, especially the main-top [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1280	They [-all-] [-held-] {+hold+} out bravely during the whole of the action.
BB p79	1281	Not a moment's cease [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1282	The leaks gain [- [-e-] {+'+} d-] fast on the pumps—the fire eat{+s+} toward the powder-magazine [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1283	One of the pumps was {+is+} shot away—it was {+is+} generally thought we were {+are+} sinking.
BB p79	1284	Serene stood {+standing+} the little captain [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1285	He was {+is+} not hurried—his voice was {+is+} neither high nor low [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1286	His eyes gave {+give+} more light to us than our battle- lanterns.
BB p79	1287	< [-Toward-] > [- {+It comes+} -] twelve at night, [- {+&+} -] there in the beams of the moon, they surrender [- [-e-] {+'+} d-] to us.
BB p79	1288	Stretch [-e-] {+'+} d and still lay {+lies+} the midnight [-,-] {+;+}
BB p79	1289	Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1290	Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking—preparations to pass to the one we had {+have+} conquer [-e-] {+'+} d [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1291	The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance [-white as a sheet [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p80	1292	Near by, the corpse of the child that served in the cabin [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1293	The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl [-e-] {+'+} d whiskers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1294	The flames, spite of all that [-could-] {+can+} be done, flickering aloft and below [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1295	The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1296	Formless stacks of bodies, and bodies by themselves —dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1297	Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves,
BB p80	1298	Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
BB p80	1299	Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
BB p80	1300	The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
BB p80	1301	Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long dull tapering groan [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1302	These so—these irretrievable.
BB p80	1303	O Christ! This is mastering me!
BB p80	1304	Through the conquered doors they crowd. I am possessed.
BB p80	1305	What the [-rebel-] [- {+convict+} -] [- {+pirate+} -] [- {+ trait +} -] {+spy+} {+, l+} said, gayly adjusting his throat to the rope-noose [-,-] {+;+}
BB p80	1306	The days I live, the passions immense,
BB p80	1307	The bloody vindicitive battles, with thousands falling, or throes of peace or war,
BB p81	1308	[- {+The+} {+With+} {+All+} -]
BB p81	1309	What the savage at the stump, his eye-sockets empty [- {+present or past+} -], his mouth spirting whoops and defiance [-,-] {+;+}
BB p81	1310	What stills the traveller come to the vault at Mount Vernon,
BB p81	1311	What sobers the Brooklyn boy as he looks down the shores of the Wallabout and remembers the Prison Ships,
BB p81	1312	What burnt the gums of the red-coat at Saratoga when he surrender < [-e-] > [- {+'+} -] d his brigades,
BB p81	1313	[-These-] [- {+All+} -] {+All+} become mine and me every one—and they are but little [-,-] {+;+}
BB p81	1314	I become as much more as I like.
BB p81	1315	I become any presence [-or truth of humanity here,-] {+outlaw'd or suffering,+}
BB p81	1316	See myself in prison shaped like another man,
BB p81	1317	And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
BB p81	1318	For me the keepers of convicts shoulder their carbines and keep watch [-,-] {+;+}
BB p81	1319	It is I let out in the morning and barr [-e-] {+'+} d at night.
BB p81	1320	Not a mutineer walks hand-cuff [-e-] {+'+} d to the jail, but I am hand-cuffed to him and walk by his side [-,-] {+;+}
BB p81	1321	{+(+}I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one, with sweat on my twitching lips.{+)+}
BB p81	1322	Not a youngster is taken for larceny, but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced.
BB p81	1323	Not a cholera patient lies at the last gasp, but I also lie at the last grasp [-,-] {+;+}
BB p81	1324	My face is ash-color [-e-] {+'+} d—my sinews gnarl—away from me people retreat.
BB p82	1325	Askers embody themselves in me, and I am embodied in them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p82	1326	I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
BB p82	1327	{+But+} Enough—[-I bring such-] {+the like of this+} to a close,{+[-—-]I [-{+must+} bring-]+}
BB p82	1328	Rise extatic through all, sweep with the true gravita- tion,
BB p82	1329	The whirling and whirling {+has far enough around+} {+ [-passing-] {+pass'd+} me [-around-]+}[-elemental within me.-]
BB p82	1330	Somehow I have been stunned. < [-Stand back!-] > [- {+I [-would-] {+must+} recall the main thing,+} -]
BB p82	1331	[- {+Stand back!+} -] Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head, slum- bers, dreams< [-, gaping-] > [-,-] {+;+}
BB p82	1332	I discover myself on the verge of < [-a usual-] > {+d+} mistake.
BB p82	1333	That I could forget the mockers and insults!
BB p82	1334	That I could forget the trickling tears, and the blows of the bludgeons and hammers!
BB p82	1335	That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and bloody crowning.
BB p82	1336	I remember now [-,-] {+;+}
BB p82	1337	I resume the overstaid fraction [-,-] {+;+}
BB p82	1338	The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves [-,-] {+;+}
BB p82	1339	Corpses rise, gashes heal, fastenings roll from me.
BB p82	1340	[-I-] {+ +} {+I+} troop forth replenish [-e-] {+'+} d with supreme power, one of an average unending procession [-,-] {+;+}
BB p82	1341	[-We walk the roads of the six North Eastern States, and of Virginia, Wisconsin, Manhattan Island, [- {+and so onward,+} -] Philadelphia, New Orleans, Texas, Charleston, Havana, Mexico, -]
BB p82	1342	Inland and [-by the-] sea-coast [-and boundary lines,-] {+we go,+} and [-we-] pass all boundary lines.
BB p83	1343	Our swift ordinances [-are-] on their way over the whole earth [-,-] {+;+}
BB p83	1344	The blossoms we wear in our hats [-are-] the growth of [-two-] thousand{+s+} {+of+} years.
BB p83	1345	Élèves, I salute you[-!-] {+— [-and reso to justify you;-]+}
BB p83	1346	[-I see the approach of your numberless gangs-]—I see you understand [-yourselves and-] me, {+through [-all-] {+much+} questioning+}
BB p83	1347	And know that they who have eyes and can walk are divine, and the blind and lame are equally divine,
BB p83	1348	And {+see+} that my steps drag behind yours, yet go before them,
BB p83	1349	And are aware how I am with you no more than I am with everybody.
BB p83	1350	Élèves, I salute you & encourage you,
BB p83	1351	Continue your [-intentions-] {+annotations+} , continue your questionings
BB p83	1352	The friendly and flowing savage, Who is he?
BB p83	1353	Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and master- ing it?
BB p83	1354	Is he some [-s-] {+S+} outh-westerner, raised out-doors? Is he Kanadian?
BB p83	1355	Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa [-,-] {+?+} Oregon [-,-] {+or+} California? {+¶+}the mountains? prairie-life, bush- life? or from the sea?
BB p83	1356	Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p83	1357	They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
BB p83	1358	Behavior lawless as snow-flakes, words simple as grass, [- {+¶+} -] uncombed head, laughter, and näveté,
BB p83	1359	< [-Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations-] > [-,-] [- {+;+} -] {+.+}
BB p84	1360	[- {+¶ +} -]They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
BB p84	1361	They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath —they fly out of the glance of his eyes.
BB p84	1362	Flaunt of the sunshine, I need not your bask,—lie over!
BB p84	1363	You light surfaces only—I force surfaces and depths also.
BB p84	1364	Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands [-,-] {+;+}
BB p84	1365	Say, old Top-knot! what do you want?
BB p84	1366	Man or woman! I might tell how I like you, but cannot [-,-] {+;+}
BB p84	1367	And might tell what it is in me, and what it is in you, but cannot [-,-] {+;+}
BB p84	1368	And might tell that pining I have—that pulse of my nights and days.
BB p84	1369	Behold! I do not give lectures or a little charity [-,-] {+;+}
BB p84	1370	What I give, I give out of myself.
BB p84	1371	You there, impotent, loose in the knees,
BB p84	1372	Open your scarfed chops till I blow grit within you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p84	1373	Spread your palms, and lift the flaps of your pockets;
BB p84	1374	{+—+}I am not to be denied—I compel—I have stores plenty and to spare,
BB p84	1375	And anything I have I bestow.
BB p84	1376	I do not ask who you are—that is not {+so+} important to me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p84	1377	You can do nothing, and be nothing, but what I will infold you.
BB p85	1378	To a drudge of the cotton-fields or cleaner of privies I lean [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1379	On his right cheek I put the family kiss,
BB p85	1380	And [-in-] [- {+by+} -] {+deep in+} my [-s-] {+S+} oul I swear, I never will deny him.
BB p85	1381	On women fit for conception I start bigger and nim- bler babes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1382	{+(+}This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.{+)+}
BB p85	1383	To any one dying—thither I speed, and twist the knob of the door [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1384	Turn the bed-clothes toward the foot of the bed [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1385	Let the physician and the priest go home.
BB p85	1386	I seize the descending man, and raise him with resist- less will.
BB p85	1387	O despairer, here is my neck [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1388	By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
BB p85	1389	I dilate you with tremendous breath—I buoy you up [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1390	Every room of the house do I fill with an armed force,
BB p85	1391	Lovers of me, bafflers of graves.
BB p85	1392	Sleep! I and they keep guard all night [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1393	Not doubt—not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1394	I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p85	1395	And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
BB p86	1396	I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1397	And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
BB p86	1398	I heard what was said of the universe [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1399	Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
BB p86	1400	—It is middling well as far as it goes,—But is that all?
BB p86	1401	Magnifying and applying come I,
BB p86	1402	Outbidding at the start the old cautions hucksters [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1403	[-The most they offer for mankind and eternity less than a spirt of my own seminal wet, -]
BB p86	1404	Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1405	Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1406	Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1407	In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved,
BB p86	1408	With Odin, and the hideous-faced Mexitli, and every idol and image [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1409	Taking them all for what they are worth, and not a cent more[-,-]
BB p86	1410	Admitting they were alive and did the work of their day [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1411	[-Admitting-] {+(+}they bore mites, as for unfledg [-e-] {+'+} d birds, who have now to rise and fly and sing for them- selves [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p86	1412	Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself—bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see [-,-] {+;+}
BB p86	1413	Discovering as much, or more, in a framer framing a house [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1414	Putting higher claims for him there with his roll [-e-] {+'+} d- up sleeves, driving the mallet and chisel [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1415	Not objecting to special revelations—considering a curl of smoke [- {+¶+} -] or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1416	[-Those-] [- {+Young upon+} -] {+Men+} ahold of fire engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me than the Gods of the antique wars,
BB p87	1417	Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
BB p87	1418	Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr [-e-] {+'+} d laths— [- {+¶+} -]their white foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
BB p87	1419	By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for every person born [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1420	Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg [-e-] {+'+} d out at their waists [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1421	The snag-tooth [-e-] {+'+} d hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
BB p87	1422	Selling all he possesses, travelling on foot to fee lawyers for his brother, and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
BB p87	1423	What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and not filling the square rod then [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1424	The bull and the bug never worship [-ped-] {+t+} half enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1425	Dung and dirt more admirable than was dreamed [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1426	The supernatural of no account—myself waiting my time to be one of the Supremes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1427	The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious [-,-] {+;+}
BB p87	1428	[-Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print; -]
BB p88	1429	By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1430	Putting myself here and now to the ambush [-e-] {+'+} d womb of the shadows.
BB p88	1431	A call in the midst of the crowd [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1432	My own voice, orotund, sweeping, {+and+} final.
BB p88	1433	Come my children [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1434	Come my boys and girls, my women, household, and intimates [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1435	Now [- {+i+} -] the performer launches his nerve—he has passed < [-his-] > [- {+the+} -] his prelude < [-on the-] > [- {+ +} -] reeds within.
BB p88	1436	Easily written, loose-finger [-e-] {+'+} d chords! I feel the thrum of [-their-] {+your+} climax and close.
BB p88	1437	My head slues round on my neck [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1438	Music rolls, but not from the organ [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1439	Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
BB p88	1440	Ever the hard unsunk ground [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1441	Ever the eaters and drinkers—{+¶+}Ever the upward and downward sun—Ever the air{+,+} and the cease- less tides [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1442	Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1443	Ever the old inexplicable query—Ever that thorn [-e-] {+'+} d thumb—that breath of itches and thirsts [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1444	Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides, and bring him forth;
BB p88	1445	Ever love—Ever the sobbing liquid of life [-,-] {+;+}
BB p88	1446	Ever the bandage under the chin—Ever the tressels of death.
BB p89	1447	Here and there, with dimes on the eyes walking,
BB p89	1448	To feed the greed of the belly, the brains liberally spooning,
BB p89	1449	Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
BB p89	1450	Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,
BB p89	1451	A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
BB p89	1452	This is the city, and I am one of the citizens [-,-] {+;+}
BB p89	1453	Whatever interests the rest interests me—politics, markets, newspapers, schools,
BB p89	1454	Benevolent societies, improvements, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, {+¶+}stocks, stores, real estate, and personal estate.
BB p89	1455	[-They who piddle and patter-] {+The little [-things-] [- {+beings+} -] {+plentiful mannikins+} skipping around+} [-here-] in collars and tailed coats—{+¶+}I am aware who they are—{+(+}they are not {+actually+} worms or fleas.{+)+}
BB p89	1456	I acknowledge the duplicates of myself—the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p89	1457	What I do and say, the same waits for them [-,-] {+;+}
BB p89	1458	Every thought that flounders in me, the same floun- ders in them.
BB p89	1459	I know perfectly well my own egotism [-,-] {+;+}
BB p89	1460	I know my omnivorous [-words-] [- {+book,+} -] {+lines+} , and cannot say any less [-,-] {+;+}
BB p89	1461	And would fetch you, whoever you are, flush with myself.
BB p90	1462	My words are words of [-a-] questioning, and to indicate reality and motive power:
BB p90	1463	No words of routine are [-mine-] [- {+here+} -] {+mine,+}
BB p90	1464	But abruptly to question, to leap [- {+b+} -] beyond, {+that I nearer+} [-yet-] bring [-much nearer.-]
BB p90	1465	This printed and bound book{+may be something—+}—but the printer, and the printing-office boy?
BB p90	1466	The well-taken photographs—but your wife or friend close and solid in your arms?
BB p90	1467	[-The fleet of ships of the line, and all the modern improvements—-]{+ +} {+The {+black+} ship mailed with iron, [-with-] {+her+} mighty guns in her turrets—+}but the [-craft and pluck of the-] {+pluck of the+} [-admiral?-] {+captain[-?-] {+& [-crew?-]+} {+engineers?+}+}
BB p90	1468	{+In the house,+} The dishes and fare and furniture—but the host and hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
BB p90	1469	The sky up there—yet here, or next door, or across the way?
BB p90	1470	The saints and sages in history—but you yourself?
BB p90	1471	Sermons, creeds, theology—but the {+fathomless+} human brain [-,-] {+?+} {+¶ +}and what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?
BB p90	1472	I do not despise you, priests [-,-] [- {+;+} -] [- {+—I look back {+acceptively+} over all & complain not,+} -]
BB p90	1473	My faith is the greatest of faiths, and the least of faiths,
BB p90	1474	Enclosing [-all-] [- {+your+} -] worship ancient and modern, and all between ancient and modern [-,-] {+;+}
BB p90	1475	Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
BB p90	1476	Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the Gods, saluting the sun,
BB p90	1477	Making a fetish of the first rock or stump, pow[-w-]owing with sticks in the circle of obis,
BB p90	1478	Helping the lama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
BB p90	1479	Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic pro- cession [-—-] {+¶+} rapt and austere in the woods, a gymnosophist,
BB p91	1480	Drinking mead from the skull-cup—to Shastas and Vedas admirant—minding the Koran,
BB p91	1481	Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife, beating the serpent-skin drum,
BB p91	1482	Accepting the Gospels—accepting him that was crucified, knowing assuredly that he is divine,
BB p91	1483	To the mass kneeling, or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting patiently in a pew,
BB p91	1484	Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till my spirit arouses me,
BB p91	1485	Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,
BB p91	1486	Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.
BB p91	1487	One of that centripetal and centrifugal gang, {+¶+}I turn and talk like a man leaving charges before a journey.
BB p91	1488	Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,
BB p91	1489	Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, disheart- en [-'-] {+'+} d, atheistical,
BB p91	1490	I know every one of you—I know the [-unspoken-] [-interrogatories,-] {+[-untold, ¶ I know the-] sea of despair & unbelief.+}
BB p91	1491	[-By experience I know them.-]
BB p91	1492	How the flukes splash!
BB p91	1493	How they contort, rapid as lightning, with spasms, and spouts of blood!
BB p91	1494	Be at peace, bloody flukes of doubters and sullen mopers [-,-] {+;+} [- {+listen to me,+} -]
BB p91	1495	I take my place among you as much as among any [-,-] {+;+}
BB p91	1496	[- {+I teach that+} -] The past is the push of you, me, all, precisely the same [-,-] {+;+}
BB p92	1497	[-{+And that+} Day and night are for you, me, all [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p92	1498	And what is yet untried and afterward is for you, me, all, precisely the same.
BB p92	1499	I do not know what is untried and afterward,
BB p92	1500	But I know it [-is sure,-] {+[-and-] will in its turn prove [-alive-] [- {+entirely+} -] [-and-] sufficient & cannot fail.+} [-alive, sufficient.-]
BB p92	1501	Each who passes is considered— [-E-] {+e+} ach who stops is considered— [-N-] {+n+} ot a single one can it fail.
BB p92	1502	It cannot fail the young man who died and was buried,
BB p92	1503	Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
BB p92	1504	Nor the little child that peeped in at the door, and then drew back, and was never seen again,
BB p92	1505	Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with bitterness worse than gall,
BB p92	1506	Nor him in the poor-house, tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
BB p92	1507	Nor the numberless slaughter [-e-] {+'+} d and wreck [-ed-] {+t+} —nor the brutish koboo called the ordure of humanity,
BB p92	1508	Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
BB p92	1509	Nor anything in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
BB p92	1510	Nor anything in the myriads of spheres—nor one of the myriads of myriads that inhabit them,
BB p92	1511	Nor the present—nor the least wisp that is known.
BB p92	1512	It is time to explain myself—Let us stand up.
BB p92	1513	What is known I strip away [-,-] {+;+}
BB p92	1514	I launch all men and women forward with me into THE UNKNOWN.
BB p93	1515	The clock indicates the moment—but what does [-e-] {+E+} ternity indicate?
BB p93	1516	We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1517	There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
BB p93	1518	Births have brought us richness and variety [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1519	And other births will bring us richness and variety.
BB p93	1520	I do not call one greater and one smaller [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1521	That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
BB p93	1522	Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?
BB p93	1523	I am sorry for you—they are not murderous or jeal- ous upon me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1524	All has been gentle with me—I keep no account with lamentation [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1525	(What have I to do with lamentation?)
BB p93	1526	I am an acme of things accomplish [-ed-] {+t+} , and I an encloser of things to be.
BB p93	1527	My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1528	On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1529	All below duly travel [-le-] {+'+} d, and still I mount and mount.
BB p93	1530	Rise after rise bow the phantoms behind me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1531	Afar down I see the huge first Nothing—I know I was even there [-,-] {+;+}
BB p93	1532	I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
BB p94	1533	And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
BB p94	1534	Long I was hugg [-e-] {+'+} d close—long and long.
BB p94	1535	Immense have been the preparations for me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1536	Faithful and friendly the arms that have help [-ed-] {+t+} me.
BB p94	1537	Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1538	For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1539	They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
BB p94	1540	Before I was born out of my mother, generations guided me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1541	My embryo has never been torpid—nothing could overlay it.
BB p94	1542	For it the nebula cohered to an orb [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1543	The long slow strata piled to rest it on [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1544	Vast vegetables gave it sustenance [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1545	Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths, and deposited it with care.
BB p94	1546	All forces have been steadily employ [-e-] {+'+} d to complete and delight me,
BB p94	1547	Now {+on this spot+} I stand [-on this spot-] with my {+robust+}Soul.
BB p94	1548	O span of youth! Ever-push [-ed-] {+t+} elasticity!
BB p94	1549	O manhood, balanced, florid, and full.
BB p94	1550	My lovers suffocate me!
BB p94	1551	Crowding my lips, thick in the pores of my skin [-,-] {+;+}
BB p94	1552	Jostling me through streets and public halls— coming naked to me at night [-,-] {+;+}
BB p95	1553	Crying by day Ahoy! from the rocks of the river —swinging and chirping over my head,
BB p95	1554	Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled under-brush,
BB p95	1555	[-Or while I swim in the bath, or drink from the pump at the corner[-—-]{+¶+}or the curtain is down at the opera, {+¶+}or I glimpse at a woman's face in the railroad car [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p95	1556	Lighting on every moment of my life,
BB p95	1557	Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,
BB p95	1558	Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts, and giving them to be mine.
BB p95	1559	Old age superbly rising! O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days!
BB p95	1560	Every condition promulges not only itself—it pro- mulges what grows after and out of itself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p95	1561	And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
BB p95	1562	I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems,
BB p95	1563	And all I see, multiplied as high as I can cipher, edge but the rim of the farther systems.
BB p95	1564	Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding,
BB p95	1565	Outward, outward, and forever outward.
BB p95	1566	My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels [-,-] {+;+}
BB p95	1567	He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit [-,-] {+;+}
BB p95	1568	And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
BB p96	1569	There is no stoppage, and never can be stoppage [-,-] {+;+}
BB p96	1570	If I, {+and+} you, {+and+} the worlds, {+and+} all beneath or upon their sur- faces, [-and all the palpable life,-] [- {+¶+} -] were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, [- {+¶+} -][-it would not avail-] [-in the long run [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p96	1571	{+It would not avail— +}We should [-surely-] bring up again where we now stand,
BB p96	1572	And [-as surely-] go as much farther—and then farther and farther.
BB p96	1573	A few quadrillions of eras, {+¶ +} a few octillions of cubic leagues, [- {+¶ +} -] do not hazard the span, or make it impatient [-,-] {+;+}
BB p96	1574	They are but parts—anything is but a part.
BB p96	1575	See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that [-,-] {+;+}
BB p96	1576	Count ever so much{+time,+}, there is limitless time around that.
BB p96	1577	My rendezvous is appointed[-,-]{+—;+}{+—it is certain+}
BB p96	1578	The Lord will be there, and wait till I come [- {+on lofty terms,+} -] < [-on per- -] > < [-fect terms.-] >
BB p96	1579	(The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.)
BB p96	1580	I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured, and never will be measured.
BB p96	1581	I tramp a perpetual journey [-,-] [- {+ ; +} -] {+,+} {+(come listen all,)+}
BB p96	1582	My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods [-,-] {+;+}
BB p96	1583	No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
BB p96	1584	[- {+(+} -]I have no chair, no church, no philosophy [-,-] {+;+} [- {+)+} -]
BB p96	1585	I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, or exchange [-,-] {+;+}
BB p97	1586	But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
BB p97	1587	My left hand hooking you round the waist,
BB p97	1588	My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents, and a plain public road.
BB p97	1589	Not I—not any one else, can travel that road for you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p97	1590	You must travel it for yourself.
BB p97	1591	It is not far—it is within reach [-,-] {+;+}
BB p97	1592	Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know [-,-] {+;+}
BB p97	1593	Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.
BB p97	1594	Shoulder your < [-duds,-] > {+ [- -] {+dear son,+} [-comrade [-!-] {+,+} -] +}and I will mine, and let us hasten forth [-,-] {+;+}
BB p97	1595	Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
BB p97	1596	If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip,
BB p97	1597	And in due time you shall repay the same service to me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p97	1598	For after we start we never lie by again.
BB p97	1599	This day before dawn I ascended a hill, and look [-e-] {+'+} d at the crowded heaven,
BB p97	1600	And I said to my Spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs, [- {+¶+} -] and the pleasure and knowledge of everything in them, [- {+¶+} -] shall we be fill [-e-] {+'+} d and satisfied then?
BB p97	1601	{+—+}And my Spirit said No, we {+but+} level that lift, to pass and continue beyond.
BB p98	1602	You are also asking me questions, and I hear you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1603	I answer that I cannot answer—you must find out for yourself.
BB p98	1604	Sit a while, wayfarer [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1605	Here are biscuits to eat, and here is milk to drink [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1606	But as soon as you sleep, and renew yourself in sweet clothes, [- {+¶+} -]{+¶+} I [-will certainly-] kiss you with my good-bye kiss, {+¶+} and open the gate for your egress hence. [- {+that you [-will-] [-see-] find {+a+} new land.+} -]
BB p98	1607	Long enough have you dream [-e-] {+'+} d contemptible dreams [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1608	Now I wash the gum from your eyes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1609	You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light, and of every moment of your life.
BB p98	1610	Long have you timidly waded, holding a plank by the shore [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1611	Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
BB p98	1612	To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, {+¶+} nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
BB p98	1613	I am the teacher of athletes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1614	He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own, proves the width of my own [-,-] {+;+}
BB p98	1615	He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
BB p98	1616	The boy I love, the same becomes a man, not through derived power, but in his own right,
BB p98	1617	Wicked, rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
BB p98	1618	Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,
BB p99	1619	Unrequited love, or a slight, cutting him worse than [-a wound-] {+the sharp steel+} ,
BB p99	1620	First rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's-eye, {+¶ +} to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or play on the banjo,
BB p99	1621	Preferring scars[- {+& the rough beard+} -], {+and the beard,+} and faces pitted with small-pox, [- {+¶+} -] over all latherers, {+¶+} and {+those well tann'd, [-over-] to+} those that keep out of the sun.
BB p99	1622	I teach straying from me—yet who can stray from me?
BB p99	1623	I follow you, whoever you are, from the present hour [-,-] {+;+}
BB p99	1624	My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
BB p99	1625	I do not say these things for a dollar, or to fill up the time while I wait for a boat [-,-] {+;+}
BB p99	1626	It is you talking just as much as myself—I act as the tongue of you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p99	1627	Tied in your mouth, in mine it begins to be loosen [-e-] {+'+} d.
BB p99	1628	I swear I will never again mention love or death inside a house [-,-] {+;+} [- {+in company, But+} -]
BB p99	1629	And I swear I will never translate myself at all, [- {+¶+} -] only to him or her [- {+¶+} -] who privately stays with me in the open air.
BB p99	1630	If you would understand me, go to the heights or water-shore [-,-] {+;+}
BB p99	1631	The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves a key [-,-] {+;+}
BB p99	1632	The maul, the oar, the hand-saw, second my words.
BB p99	1633	No shuttered room or school can commune with me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p99	1634	But roughs and little children better than they.
BB p100	1635	The young mechanic is close[-st-] to me—he knows me [-pretty-] well [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1636	The woodman, that takes his axe and jug with him, shall take me with him all day [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1637	The farm-boy, ploughing in the field, feels good at the sound of my voice [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1638	In vessels that sail, my words sail—I go with fisher- men and seamen, and love them.
BB p100	1639	The soldier camp'd, or in battle, on the march {+is+} mine;
BB p100	1640	On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, & I do not fail them
BB p100	1641	On that solemn night, {+(who knows+} (it may be last,) {+not his to +} those that know me seek me
BB p100	1642	My face rubs to the hunter's face, when he lies down alone in his blanket [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1643	The driver, thinking of me, does not mind the jolt of his wagon [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1644	The young mother and old mother comprehend me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1645	The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment, and forget where they are [-,-] {+;+}
BB p100	1646	They and all would resume what I have told them.
BB p100	1647	I have said that the Soul is not more than the body,
BB p100	1648	And I have said that the body is not more than the Soul,
BB p100	1649	And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is.
BB p100	1650	And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy, walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud,
BB p100	1651	And I or you, pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth,
BB p100	1652	And to glance with an eye, or show a bean in its pod, confounds the learning of all times,
BB p100	1653	And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero,
BB p101	1654	And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel [-e-] {+'+} d universe,
BB p101	1655	And {+I say to+} any man or woman{+,+} [-shall-] [- {+must+} -] {+Let your Soul+} [-s-] {+S+} tand cool and [-supercilious-] {+composed+} before < [-a million-] > [- {+ all the +} -] universes.
BB p101	1656	And I [-call to mankind,-] {+say,+} Be not curious about God [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1657	For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1658	{+(+}No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God, and about death.{+)+}
BB p101	1659	I hear and behold God in every object, yet under- stand God not in the least [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1660	Nor do I understand who [- {+or what+} -] there can be more won- derful than myself.
BB p101	1661	Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
BB p101	1662	I see < [-something-] > [- {+ +} -] something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1663	In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1664	I find letters from God drop [-ped-] {+t+} in the street—and every one is sign [-e-] {+'+} d by God's name [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1665	And I leave them where they are, for I know that {+wherever I go+} [-o-] {+O+} thers will punctually come forever and ever.
BB p101	1666	And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.
BB p101	1667	To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p101	1668	I see the elder-hand, pressing, receiving, supporting,
BB p101	1669	I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors, {+&+} [-a-] {+A+} nd mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
BB p102	1670	And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p102	1671	I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p102	1672	I reach to the leafy lips—I reach to the polish [-ed-] {+t+} breasts of melons.
BB p102	1673	And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths [-,-] {+;+}
BB p102	1674	{+(+}No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.{+)+}
BB p102	1675	I hear you whispering there, O stars of heaven [-,-] {+;+}
BB p102	1676	O suns! O grass of graves! O perpetual transfers and promotions!
BB p102	1677	If you do not say anything, how can I say anything?
BB p102	1678	Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest,
BB p102	1679	Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
BB p102	1680	Toss, sparkles of day and dusk! toss on the black stems that decay in the muck!
BB p102	1681	Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
BB p102	1682	I ascend from the moon, I ascend from the night [-,-] {+;+}
BB p102	1683	I perceive [-of-] {+that+} the ghastly glimmer [-the-] {+is+} sunbeams re- flected,
BB p102	1684	And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
BB p102	1685	There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me.
BB p102	1686	Wrench [-ed-] {+t+} and sweaty—calm and cool then my body becomes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p102	1687	I sleep—I sleep long.
BB p103	1688	I do not know it—it is without name—it is a word unsaid [-,-] {+;+}
BB p103	1689	It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
BB p103	1690	Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on [-,-] {+;+}
BB p103	1691	To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
BB p103	1692	Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters.
BB p103	1693	Do you see, O my brothers and sisters?
BB p103	1694	It is not chaos or death—it is form, union, plan [-—-] {+¶+} it is eternal < [-life-] > [- {+t action‑growth+} -]—it is {+HAPPINESS.+}
BB p103	1695	The past and present wilt—I have fill [-e-] {+'+} d them, emp- tied them,
BB p103	1696	And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
BB p103	1697	Listener up there! [- {+ +} -] < [-H-] > [- {+h+} -] ere you! < [-W-] > [- {+w+} -] hat have you to confide to me?
BB p103	1698	Look in my face, while I snuff the sidle of evening [-,-] {+;+}
BB p103	1699	Talk honestly—no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
BB p103	1700	Do I contradict myself?
BB p103	1701	Very well, then, I contradict myself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p103	1702	I am large—I contain multitudes.
BB p103	1703	I concentrate toward them that are nigh—I wait on the door-slab.
BB p103	1704	Who has done his day's work? Who will soonest be through with his supper?
BB p103	1705	Who wishes to walk with me?
BB p104	1706	Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
BB p104	1707	The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.
BB p104	1708	{+(+}I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1709	I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.{+)+}
BB p104	1710	The last scud of day holds back for me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1711	It flings my likeness, after the rest, and true as any, on the shadow [-e-] {+'+} d wilds [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1712	It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
BB p104	1713	I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the run-away sun [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1714	I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
BB p104	1715	I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1716	If you want me again, look for me under your boot- soles.
BB p104	1717	You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1718	But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
BB p104	1719	And filter and fibre your blood.
BB p104	1720	Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1721	Missing me one place, search another [-,-] {+;+}
BB p104	1722	I stop somewhere waiting for you.
BB p105	1723	[-O mater! O fils!-]
BB p105	1724	O brood continental! [- {+race of the future!+} -]
BB p105	1725	O flowers of the prairies!
BB p105	1726	O space boundless! O hum of mighty products!
BB p105	1727	O you teeming cities! [-O-] [-so-] invincible, turbulent, proud! [- {+ +} -]
BB p105	1728	[-O race of the future! O women!-]
BB p105	1729	[-O fathers!-] O [-you-] men of passion and the storm!
BB p105	1730	[-O native power only!-] {+ +} [-O beauty!-]
BB p105	1731	[-O yourself! O God!-] [-O divine average!-]
BB p105	1732	[-O you bearded roughs! O bards!-] O all < [-those-] > [- {+you+} -] those slum- berers!
BB p105	1733	[-O-] [- {+Arouse!+} -] arouse! the dawn-bird's throat [-sounds-] {+pours+} shrill! [-Do-] [-you not hear the cock [- {+exultant+} -] crowing?-]
BB p105	1734	[-O,-] {+O Arouse!+} as I [- {+far+} -] walk'd the beach, I heard the mournful notes foreboding a tempest [-—-] {+—+} [- {+ +} -] the low, oft-repeated shriek of the diver, the long-lived loon[-;-] {+I heard+}
BB p106	1735	[-O-] I heard, and yet hear, angry thunder;—O [-you-] sailors! < [-O-] > [- {+you+} -] O ships! make quick preparation!
BB p106	1736	O from his masterful sweep, the warning cry of the eagle!
BB p106	1737	(Give way there, all! It is useless! Give up your spoils;)
BB p106	1738	O sarcasms! Propositions! (O if the whole world should prove indeed a sham, a sell!)
BB p106	1739	O I [-believe-] {+know+} there is nothing real but [-America-] {+the West+} and freedom!
BB p106	1740	O [-to-] {+I will henceforth+} sternly reject all except {+the West and+} [-Democracy!-] {+freedom!+}
BB p106	1741	[-{+O [-the-] broad and brawny prairies! I see your shape arising![-I see-] [-your imperial centre!-] your p+} I see the [-imperial-] {+mother+} mistress!-]
BB p106	1742	O imperator{+s+}! O who dare confront you and me?
BB p106	1743	[-O to promulgate our own! O to build for that which builds for mankind! -]
BB p106	1744	[-O feuillage! O North! O the slope drained by the Mexican sea! -]
BB p106	1745	[-O all, all inseparable—ages, ages, ages!-]
BB p106	1746	[-O a curse on him that would dissever this Union for any reason whatever! -]
BB p106	1747	[-O climates, labors! O good and evil! O death!-]
BB p106	1748	O you strong with iron and wood! O Personality {+for me!+}!
BB p106	1749	O the village or place {+for me,+} which has the greatest man or woman! [-even if it be only a few ragged huts;-]
BB p106	1750	O the city where women walk in public processions in the streets, the same as the men;
BB p106	1751	O a wan and terrible emblem, by me adopted!
BB p106	1752	O shapes arising! shapes of the future centuries!
BB p106	1753	O muscle and pluck forever for me!
BB p106	1754	O workmen and workwomen forever for me!
BB p106	1755	O farmers and sailors! O drivers of horses forever for me!
BB p106	1756	O I [-will make-] {+have made+} the new bardic list of trades and tools!
BB p106	1757	[-O you coarse and wilful! I love you!-]
BB p107	1758	[-O South! O longings for my dear home! O soft and sunny airs! -]
BB p107	1759	[-O pensive! O I must return where the palm grows and the mocking-bird sings, or else I die! -]
BB p107	1760	[-O equality! O organic compacts! I am come to be your born poet! -]
BB p107	1761	[-O whirl, contest, sounding and resounding! I am your poet, because I am part of you; -]
BB p107	1762	[-O days by-gone! [-E-] {+e+} nthusiasts! [-A-] {+a+} ntecedents! {+[-the-] wars!+}-]
BB p107	1763	[-O vast preparations for These States! O years!-]
BB p107	1764	[-O [- {+for+} -] what is now being sent forward [- {+by These States+} -] thousands of years [-to come!-] -]
BB p107	1765	[-O mediums! O to teach! to convey the invisible faith!-]
BB p107	1766	[-To promulge real things! to journey through all The States! -]
BB p107	1767	[-O creation! O to-day! O laws! O unmitigated adoration! -]
BB p107	1768	O [-for-] {+henceforth+} mightier broods of orators, artists, and singers!
BB p107	1769	O [-for-] {+henceforth+} native songs! {+farmer's+} carpenter's, boatman's, plough- man's songs! [-shoemaker's songs!-]
BB p107	1770	[-O haughtiest growth of time!-] O free and extatic!
BB p107	1771	O what I, here, preparing, warble for!
BB p107	1772	O you hastening light! {+¶+} O the sun of the world will ascend, dazzling, and take his height—and you too will ascend;
BB p107	1773	O so amazing and [-so-] broad! up there resplendent, darting and burning;
BB p107	1774	O {+vision+} prophetic[-! O vision-] stagger [-e-] {+'+} d with weight of light! with pouring glories!
BB p107	1775	[-O copious! O hitherto unequalled!-]
BB p107	1776	O Libertad! [-O compact!-] O union impossible {+really+} to dissever!
BB p107	1777	O my Soul! O lips becoming tremulous, powerless!
BB p107	1778	[-O centuries, centuries yet ahead!-]
BB p108	1779	O voices of [-greater-] [- {+competent+} -] [-orators!-] {+bards+} {+[-of Missouri!-] Californian!+} I pause—I listen for you!
BB p108	1780	[-O-] you [-States!-] {+inland+} Cities[-! defiant of all outside authority!-] I spring [-at once-] {+forward+} into your arms! [-you I most-] [-love!-]
BB p108	1781	(Let my tongue wag on [-here,-] foolish, {+inspired+} [-intoxicated-];)
BB p108	1782	[-O-] you grand Presidentiads {+after these wars are over+} [-!-] I wait for you!
BB p108	1783	New history! New heroes [-!-] {+—+} I project you!
BB p108	1784	Visions of poets! only you really last! O sweep on! sweep on!
BB p108	1785	[-O Death! O you striding there! O I cannot yet!-]
BB p108	1786	O heights! [-O infinitely-] too swift and dizzy yet!
BB p108	1787	O purged [-lumine!-] {+and luminous!+} ! you threaten me more than I can stand!
BB p108	1788	O present! I return while yet I may to you!
BB p108	1789	O poets to come, I depend upon you!
BB p108	1790	[-Am-] America{+n+} isolated I sing, [-against all the remainder of the earth;-]
BB p108	1791	—I say that works, [-poems-] {+songs+} , (whether [-made-] [- {+born+} -] [- {+made+} -] {+grown+} here or imported)
BB p108	1792	W [-That breathe-] [- {+Out of+} -] [- {+Made <in>+} -] [- {+Breathing+} -] {+Conceiv'd+} in the spirit of other lands, are so much poison to These States.
BB p108	1793	As I wandered the prairies alone at night
BB p108	1794	As I wandered the Prairies alone at night,
BB p108	1795	(As I mused of these mighty days & of peace returned, and the dead that return no more,)
BB p108	1796	A Phantom, gigantic, superb, with stern visage, arrested me,
BB p108	1797	{+Chant me a poem+}, it said, {+that breathes my native air alone+},
BB p108	1798	Chant me a song of [-Demo-] {+the throes of Democracy+} [-;-] {+.+}
BB p108	1799	(Democracy, the destined conqueror—yet treacherous lip‑smiles everywhere,
BB p108	1800	And death and infidelity at every step [- {+—with wars, disruptions, [- {+With+} -] and {+all+} apparent failures.)+} -] [- {+ [-with-] {+And the+} {+deepest+} wounds in the house of its friends, +} -]
BB p108	1801	"Old John Brown is a mouldering in his grave"
BB p108	1802	A NATION [- {+ +} -] announcing itself, [-(many in one,)-]
BB p108	1803	I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
BB p108	1804	I reject none, accept all, {+then+} [- {+Mnew'd in one,+} -] reproduce all in my own forms< [-.-] > [- {+(M)+} -]
BB p108	1805	A breed whose [-testimony is behavior,-] {+proof is in [-content-] time & deeds+} ,
BB p108	1806	What we are WE ARE—nativity is answer enough to objections;
BB p108	1807	We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded,
BB p109	1808	We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
BB p109	1809	We are executive in ourselves—We are sufficient in the variety of ourselves,
BB p109	1810	We are the most beautiful to ourselves, and in our- selves,
BB p109	1811	We stand self‑poised in the centre {+branching thence [-to-] {+over+} the world+}
BB p109	1812	[-from-] {+From+} Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn,
BB p109	1813	Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
BB p109	1814	Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or sinful in ourselves only.
BB p109	1815	¶(If we are lost {+O mother, O sisters dear+} no victor else has destroy'd us, ¶it is by ourselves we [-are lost-] go down to eternal night)
BB p109	1816	Have you thought there could be but a single Supreme?
BB p109	1817	[- {+¶+} -]There can be any number of Supremes < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] One does not countervail another, {+¶+}any more than one eye- sight countervails another, [- {+¶+} -]or one life counter- vails another.
BB p109	1818	All is eligible to all,
BB p109	1819	All is for individuals—All is for you,
BB p109	1820	No condition is prohibited, not God's or any,
BB p109	1821	[-If one is lost, you are inevitably lost.-]
BB p109	1822	All comes by the body—only health puts you rapport with the universe.
BB p109	1823	Produce great {+persons+}, the rest follows.
BB p109	1824	How dare [-a sick man, or an obedient man, write poems for The[-se-] States?-] {+these petty little creatures write poems {+for America?+} {+¶+} [-f-] {+F+} or our armies, [-the generations following them-] {+& the for offspring begotten by them?+} +}
BB p109	1825	Which is the theory or {+any existing+} book that, for [-our-] {+such+} purposes, is not diseased?
BB p109	1826	Piety and conformity to them that like!
BB p109	1827	Peace, obesity, allegiance, to them that like!
BB p110	1828	I am he who tauntingly compels men, women, nations, {+¶+} [-to-] [- {+Saying+} -] {+Crying,+} leap from [-their-] {+your+} seats and contend for [-their-] {+your+} lives.
BB p110	1829	I am he who [-goes through the-] {+walks through the+} [-streets-] [- {+West+} -] {+States+} [- {+¶+} -] with a barbed tongue, questioning every one I meet—[- ques- tioning you up there now-] [-:-] {+.+}
BB p110	1830	[- {+¶+} -] {+‑ ¶+} Who are you, that wanted only to be told what you knew before?
BB p110	1831	Who are you, that wanted only a book to join you in your nonsense?
BB p110	1832	(With pangs & cries as your own O bearer of {+many+} children,
BB p110	1833	This chant all wild to a race of pride I give)
BB p110	1834	[-Are you, or-] {+O lands!+} would you be [-, better-] {+greater & freer+} than all that has [-ever-] been before?
BB p110	1835	If you would be better than all that has ever been before, come listen to me [-,-] {+.+} [-and not otherwise.-]
BB p110	1836	Fear grace—Fear delicatesse,
BB p110	1837	Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey-juice,
BB p110	1838	Beware the advancing mortal ripening of nature,
BB p110	1839	Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.
BB p110	1840	Ages, precedents, [-poems,-] have long been accumu- lating undirected materials,
BB p110	1841	America brings builders, and brings its own styles.
BB p110	1842	[-Mighty-] {+The+} [-bards-] {+poets of Asia and Europe+} have done their work, and passed to other spheres,
BB p110	1843	One work forever remains, the work of surpassing all they have done.
BB p110	1844	America, curious toward foreign characters, stands by its own at all hazards,
BB p111	1845	Stands removed, spacious, composite, sound,{+—+}
BB p111	1846	[-Sees itself promulger of men and women,-] initiates the [-true-] use of precedents,
BB p111	1847	Does not repel them or the past, or what they have produced under their forms, ¶[-or amid other pol- itics, or amid the idea of castes, or the old religions,-]
BB p111	1848	Takes the lesson with calmness, perceives the corpse slowly borne [- {+¶+} -]from the [-eating and sleeping rooms of the-] house,
BB p111	1849	Perceives that it waits a little while in the door— that it was fittest for its days,
BB p111	1850	That its life has descended to the stalwart and well- shaped heir who approaches,
BB p111	1851	And that he shall be fittest for his days.
BB p111	1852	Any period, one nation must lead,
BB p111	1853	One land must be the promise and reliance of the future.
BB p111	1854	These States are [-the amplest poem,-] [-{+their own poem amplest,+} {+soown com+}plete-]
BB p111	1855	Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations,
BB p111	1856	Here the doings of men correspond with the broad- cast doings of the day and night,
BB p111	1857	Here is what moves in magnificent masses, careless[-ly-] [-faithful-] of particulars,
BB p111	1858	Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combative- ness, the Soul loves,
BB p111	1859	Here the [-flowing trains—here the-] {+vehement tugs & trails+} [-crowds, equality, diversity,-] the Soul loves.
BB p111	1860	[-Race of races,-] {+Land of lands,+} and bards to corroborate!
BB p111	1861	¶America, isolated, I sing, against all the remainder of the earth,
BB p111	1862	¶I say that works, [-poems-] {+songs+} , [-whether made here or imported-], breathing the spirit of other lands
BB p111	1863	[-Breathing the spirit of other lands-] {+Whether made here or imported+} , are so much poison to These States
BB p112	1864	Of them, standing among them, one{+,+} [- {+from Paumanok coming,+} -] lifts to the light [-<his> west-bred <face,>-] [- {+from Paumanok, his face,+} -]
BB p112	1865	To him the hereditary countenance bequeathed, both mother's and father's,
BB p112	1866	His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
BB p112	1867	Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
BB p112	1868	Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land,
BB p112	1869	Attracting it body and Soul to himself, hanging on its neck with incomparable love,
BB p112	1870	Plunging his semitic muscle into its merits and demerits,
BB p112	1871	Making its [-geography,-] cities, beginnings, events, [-glories, defections,-] diversities, {+wars,+}vocal in him,
BB p112	1872	Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him,
BB p112	1873	Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes < [-—-] > {+¶+} [-Missouri,-] Columbia, [-Ohio,-] Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
BB p112	1874	If the Atlantic coast stretch, or the Pacific coast stretch, he stretching with them north or south,
BB p112	1875	Spanning between them east and west, and touching whatever is between them,
BB p112	1876	Growths growing from him to offset the growth of pine, cedar, hemlock, live-oak, {+¶+}locust, chest- nut, [-cypress,-] hickory, [-lime-tree,-] cotton-wood, [-tulip-tree, cactus, tamarind,-] orange, magnolia, [-persimmon,-]
BB p112	1877	Tangles as tangled in him as any cane-brake or swamp, Here, Whitman erased a line initially inteded to join the two lines together
BB p112	1878	He likening < [-sides and peaks of mountains,-] > [- {+¶+} -]forests coated with {+northern+} transparent ice, [-and icicles hanging from the boughs,-]
BB p113	1879	Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
BB p113	1880	Through him flights, [-songs,-] {+whirls,+} screams, answering those of the [-wild-pigeon, coot,-] fish-hawk,[- {+¶+} -] [-qua-bird-] {+mocking‑bird+} , [-mocking-bird, condor,-] < [-night-heron-] > [- {+and+} -] , {+&+} eagle;
BB p113	1881	His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
BB p113	1882	Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
BB p113	1883	Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
BB p113	1884	Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, [-the rapid-] {+embryo+} stature and muscle,
BB p113	1885	The [-haughty-] defiance [-of the Year 1-] {+sent to King George, the+}—war, peace, the formation of the Constitution,
BB p113	1886	The [-separate-] States, {+distinct, yet inevitably one,—+} the simple, elastic scheme, the immigrants,
BB p113	1887	The Union, always swarming with blatherers, and always calm and impregnable,
BB p113	1888	The unsurveyed interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals, hunters, trappers;
BB p113	1889	Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, tem- perature, the gestation of new States,
BB p113	1890	Congress convening every Twelfth Month, the mem- bers duly coming up from the uttermost parts;
BB p113	1891	Surrounding the noble character of mechanics and farmers, especially the young men,
BB p113	1892	Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships [-—-] {+¶+} the gait they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,
BB p113	1893	The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the copiousness and decision of their phrenology,
BB p114	1894	The picturesque looseness of their carriage, [- {+¶+} -][-their deathless attachment to freedom,-] their fierceness when wronged,
BB p114	1895	The fluency of their speech, their delight in music, {+¶+}their curiosity, good temper, and open-handed- ness—the whole composite make,
BB p114	1896	The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large am- ativeness,
BB p114	1897	The perfect equality of the female with the male, the fluid movement of the population,
BB p114	1898	The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries, whaling, gold-digging,
BB p114	1899	Wharf-hemmed cities, railroad and steamboat lines, intersecting all points,
BB p114	1900	Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the north-east, north-west, south-west,
BB p114	1901	Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plan- tation life,
BB p114	1902	Slavery, the [-tremulous spreading of hands to shelter it—-] ☝ {+murderous, treacherous, [-uprising-] {+conspiracy+} to raise it upon our [-t-] {+raise it upon+} [-our ruins,-] {+the ruins of alThe remainder of the line is obscured by a paste-over that Whitman affixed to the upper right hand corner of page 114. The paste-over does not intend to delete the words underneath it.+} +} {+¶+} [-the stern opposition to it, which ceases only when it ceases.-]{+ [-O-] {+o+} n & on to [-T-] {+t+} he grapple with it, ([-the-] {+ the one the Scorning+} assassin. then its life or ours be the tug—& respite no more.+}
BB p114	1903	For these and the like, their own voices! For these, space ahead!
BB p114	1904	Others take finish, but the Republic is ever con- structive, and ever keeps vista;
BB p114	1905	Others adorn the past—but you, O, days of the present, I adorn you!
BB p114	1906	O days of the future, I believe in you! {+I isolate myself for your sake!+}
BB p114	1907	O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you!
BB p114	1908	O well-beloved stone-cutters! I lead them who plan with decision and science,
BB p114	1909	{+Lo!+}High toward heaven, this day,
BB p114	1910	[-O-] Libertad! from the Conqueress' field return'd,
BB p114	1911	I mark the new aureola around your head,
BB p114	1912	No more of soft astral[-,-]—but dazzling & fierce,
BB p114	1913	With war's flames, & the {+lambent+} lightning's [-flash,-] [- {+darts;+} -] {+playing;+}
BB p114	1914	And your port immovable where you stand;
BB p114	1915	[-And-] {+With+} still the inextinguishable glance, & the clench'd & lifted fist;
BB p114	1916	And your foot on the neck of the one, the {+last great+} [- {+latest & mightiest+} -] Scorner, utterly crush'd [-before-] {+beneath+} you;
BB p114	1917	The menacing, arrogant one, that strode & advanced with his senseless scorn, bearing the murderous knife;
BB p114	1918	Lo! the [-great-] {+wide+} swelling one, the [-scorner,-] {+braggart+} that would yesterday do so [-so-] much!
BB p114	1919	Already a carrion dead, & [-damned-] {+despised+} {+damned+} of all the earth—an offal rank,
BB p114	1920	This day to the dunghill maggots spurn'd.
BB p114	1921	The little sisters huddle around, speechless & dismayed,)
BB p114	1922	See, dearest mother, the letter Pete will soon be better.
BB p114	1923	Alas, poor boy, he will never be be (nor may‑be needs to be bette that brave & simple soul,)
BB p114	1924	While they stand at home at t door, he is dead already,
BB p114	1925	The only son is dead.
BB p114	1926	But the mother needs to be better,
BB p114	1927	She, with thin form, presently dre in black
BB p114	1928	By day her meals untouch'd— at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
BB p114	1929	In the midnight waking, weeping with one deep longing,
BB p114	1930	O that she might withdraw unnoti —silent from life escape & withdr
BB p114	1931	To follow, to seek, to be with her dear absent son
BB p115	1932	([-O-] soul[-s-]
BB p115	1933	[-O-] [-vision-] {+eyes+} [-that pierces deep-] {+to pierce the deepes deeps,+} & swee [-ps-] {+p+} the world!
BB p115	1934	[-O-] mother [-that-] prolific & teeming {+as all [-the rest-] besides+}—yet barren, barren!)
BB p115	1935	I lead the present with friendly hand toward the future.
BB p115	1936	Bravas to [-States-] {+all+} [-whose-] semitic impulses send{+ing+} [- whole- some -] {+strong+} some children to the next age!
BB p115	1937	But damn that which spends itself on flaunters and {+scrofulous+} dalliers, {+¶+}with no thought of the stain, pains, [-dismay,-] feebleness, it is bequeathing.
BB p115	1938	I heard the voice arising, demanding bards,
BB p115	1939	By [-great bards only can series of peoples and States-] {+the greatest of them only can [-peoples-] men+} be fused into the compact organism of [-one-] {+a+} nation.
BB p115	1940	To hold [-men-] {+folks+} together by paper and seal, or by com- pulsion, is no account,
BB p115	1941	That only holds [-men-] {+folks+} together which {+aggregates all in a+} [-is-] living prin- ciple [-s-], {+¶+}as the hold of the limbs of the body, or the fibres of plants.
BB p115	1942	Of all races and eras, These States, with veins full of poetical stuff, most need [-poets-] {+bards+} , {+¶+} and are {+surely+}to have the greatest, and use them the greatest,
BB p115	1943	{+(+}Their Presidents shall not be their common referee so much as their poets shall.{+)+}
BB p115	1944	[-Of mankind,-] [-t-] {+T+} he [- {+American+} -] poet {+of the New World+} is the equable man,
BB p115	1945	Not in him, but off from him, things are grotesque, eccentric, fail of their full returns,
BB p115	1946	Nothing out of its place is good, nothing in its place is bad,
BB p115	1947	He bestows on every object or quality its fit propor- tions, neither more nor less,
BB p115	1948	He is the arbiter of the diverse, he is the key,
BB p116	1949	He is the equalizer of his age and land,
BB p116	1950	He supplies what wants supplying—he checks what wants checking,
BB p116	1951	In peace, out of him speaks the spirit of peace, [- {+¶+} -]large, rich, thrifty, {+¶+}building populous towns,[- {+¶+} -] encour- aging agriculture, arts, commerce, {+¶+}lighting the study of man, the Soul, health, immortality, government [-,-] {+;+}
BB p116	1952	In war, he is the best backer of the war—he fetches artillery as good as the engineer's [-—-] {+¶+} {+Be not deceived,+} he can make every word he speaks draw blood;
BB p116	1953	The years straying toward infidelity, he withholds by his steady faith,
BB p116	1954	He is no arguer, he is judgment, [- {+(his decision final,+} -] {+—nature accepts him [-over the lawyer's,)-]+}
BB p116	1955	He judges not as the judge judges, but as the sun falling round a helpless thing;
BB p116	1956	As he sees the farthest he has the most faith,
BB p116	1957	His thoughts are the hymns of the praise of things,
BB p116	1958	In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent,
BB p116	1959	He sees eternity less like a play with a prologue and denouement,
BB p116	1960	He sees eternity in men and women—{+(+}he does not see men and women as dreams or dots.{+)+}
BB p116	1961	Of the idea of perfect and free individuals, {+¶+} [-the-] {+Of that+} idea {+the bard+} of These States[-,-] [- {+¶+} -] [-the bard-] walks in advance, leader of leaders,
BB p116	1962	The attitude of him cheers up slaves, and horrifies [-foreign-] despots.
BB p116	1963	Without extinction is Liberty! Without retrograde is Equality!
BB p116	1964	They live in the feelings of young men, and the best women,
BB p117	1965	Not for nothing have the indomitable heads of the earth been always ready to fall for Liberty!
BB p117	1966	Are YOU indeed for Liberty?
BB p117	1967	Are you a man who would assume a place to teach{+,+} [-here, or lead here,-] or be a poet here?
BB p117	1968	The place is august—the terms obdurate.
BB p117	1969	Who would assume to teach {+or sing+} here, may well prepare himself, body and mind,
BB p117	1970	He may well survey, ponder, arm, fortify, harden, make lithe, himself,
BB p117	1971	He shall surely be questioned beforehand by me with many and stern questions.
BB p117	1972	Who are you, [-indeed,-] [- {+anyhow,+} -] [-who would talk or-] {+to talk or+} sing {+to [-th-] [- {+a+} -] the [-race? of soldiers & free men?-] equal race of the free?+} [-in America?-]
BB p117	1973	Have you studied out MY LAND lower case, its idioms and men?
BB p117	1974	Have you learned {+indeed+} [-the physiology, phrenology, poli- tics, geography, pride, freedom, friendship, of -] my land? its substratums and objects?
BB p117	1975	Have you considered the organic compact of the first day of the first year of [-the independence of-] The States, {+¶+}signed by the Commissioners, ratified by The States, and read by Washington at the head of the army?
BB p117	1976	Have you possessed yourself of the Federal Constitu- tion?
BB p117	1977	Do you acknowledge Liberty with audible and abso- lute acknowledgment, and set slavery at nought for [-life and death?-]
BB p117	1978	Do you see {+know+} who have left described processes [-and poems-] behind them, and assumed new ones?
BB p118	1979	Are you faithful to things? Do you teach whatever the land and sea, {+¶+}the bodies of men, womanhood, amativeness, angers, excesses, crimes, teach?
BB p118	1980	Have you sped through customs, laws, popularities?
BB p118	1981	Can you hold your hand against all seductions, follies, [-whirls,-] fierce contentions? {+¶+}Are you very strong? Are you of the whole people?
BB p118	1982	Are you not of some coterie? some school or religion?
BB p118	1983	Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? ani- mating to life itself?
BB p118	1984	Have you vivified yourself from the maternity of {+all+} The[-se-] States?
BB p118	1985	Have you [-sucked-] {+fed at+} the nipples of the breast[-s-] of the mother of many children?
BB p118	1986	Have you too the old, ever-fresh, forbearance and impartiality?
BB p118	1987	Do you hold the like love for those hardening to maturity? {+¶+}for the last-born? little and big? and for the errant?
BB p118	1988	What is this you bring my America?
BB p118	1989	Is it uniform with my country?
BB p118	1990	Is it not something that has been better told or done before?
BB p118	1991	Have you not imported this, or the spirit of it, in some ship?
BB p118	1992	Is it a mere tale? a rhyme? a prettiness?
BB p118	1993	Has it [-never-] {+not long+} dangled at the heels of the poets, poli- ticians, literats, of enemies' lands?
BB p118	1994	Does it not assume that what is notoriously gone is still here?
BB p118	1995	Does it answer universal needs? Will it improve manners?
BB p119	1996	Can your performance face the open fields and the sea-side?
BB p119	1997	Will it absorb into me as I absorb food, air, nobility, meanness < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] to appear again in my strength, {+and+} gait,{+?+} face?
BB p119	1998	Have real employments contributed to it? original makers—not amanuenses?
BB p119	1999	Does it meet modern discoveries, calibers, facts, face to face?
BB p119	2000	Does it respect me? Democracy? the Soul? to-day?
BB p119	2001	What does it mean to me? to American persons, progresses, cities? ¶Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas? the planter, Yankee, Georgian, ¶native, immi- grant, sailors, squatters, old States, new States?
BB p119	2002	Does it encompass all The States, and the unexcep- tional rights of all the men and women of the earth, {+(+}the genital impulse of These States?{+)+}
BB p119	2003	¶Does it see behind [-the-] [- {+all+} -] apparent custodians, the real custodians, standing, menacing, silent, {+¶+}the mechanics, Manhattanese, western men, south- erners, {+¶+}significant alike in their apathy {+their contests,+}and in the promptness of their love?
BB p119	2004	Does it see what befalls and has always befallen each temporizer, [-{+¶+}patcher, outsider,-] partialist, [-alarmist, infidel, who has ever asked anything-] [-of-] {+in+} America?
BB p119	2005	What mocking and scornful negligence?
BB p119	2006	The track strewed with the dust of skeletons?
BB p119	2007	By the roadside others disdainfully tossed?
BB p119	2008	Rhymes and rhymers pass away—poems distilled from other poems pass away,
BB p119	2009	The swarms of reflectors and the polite pass, and leave ashes;
BB p120	2010	Admirers, importers, obedient persons, make the soil of literature;
BB p120	2011	America justifies itself, give it time—no disguise can deceive it, < [-or conceal from it-] >[-—it is impassive enough, -]
BB p120	2012	Only toward the likes of itself will it advance to meet them,
BB p120	2013	If its poets appear, it will advance to meet them [-— there is no fear of mistake, -] {+in due time+}
BB p120	2014	{+(+}The proof of a poet shall be sternly deferred, till his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.{+)+}
BB p120	2015	He masters whose spirit masters—he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run,
BB p120	2016	The blood of the brawn beloved of time is uncon- straint,
BB p120	2017	In the need of poems, philosophy, politics, manners, engineering, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft, he or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical ex- ample.
BB p120	2018	Already a nonchalant breed, [-silently-] [-emerging, fills the-] {+emerging from+} houses{+,+} [-and streets,-] {+appears in the streets,+} and streets,
BB p120	2019	People's lips salute only doers, lovers, satisfiers, positive knowers;
BB p120	2020	There will shortly be no more priests—I say their work is done,
BB p120	2021	Death is without emergencies here, but life is per- petual emergencies here,
BB p120	2022	Are your body, days, manners, superb? after death you shall be superb;
BB p121	2023	[-Friendship, self-esteem,-] [-j-] {+J+} ustice, health, {+self‑esteem+} clear the way with irresistible power;
BB p121	2024	How dare you place anything before a man?
BB p121	2025	Fall behind me, States!
BB p121	2026	[-A-] {+One+} man, [- {+by himself,+} -] before all—myself, typical, before all.
BB p121	2027	34. Give me the pay I have served for!
BB p121	2028	Give me to [-speak beautiful words-] [- {+ate+} -] {+sing the {+warlike+} song of the land!+} ! take all the rest;
BB p121	2029	[- {+(+} -]I have loved the earth, sun, animals—I have despised riches,
BB p121	2030	I have given alms to every one that asked, stood up for the stupid and crazy, devoted my income and labor to others,
BB p121	2031	I have hated tyrants, argued not concerning God, had patience and indulgence toward the people, taken off my hat to nothing known or unknown,
BB p121	2032	I have gone freely with powerful uneducated persons, {+¶+}and with the young, and with the mothers of families,
BB p121	2033	I have read these leaves to myself in the open air— I have tried them by trees, stars, rivers,
BB p121	2034	I have dismissed whatever insulted my own Soul or defiled my body,
BB p121	2035	I have claimed nothing to myself which I have not carefully claimed for others on the same terms.
BB p121	2036	I have [-studied my land, its idioms and men,-] [- {+ +} -] {+sped to the camp, I have been with the [-soldiers-] {+natives+} of every [-part,-] {+state,+} I have studied their idioms,+}
BB p121	2037	I am willing to wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of myself,
BB p121	2038	I reject none, I permit all,
BB p121	2039	¶(say, O mother! [-of all-] have I not {+to your thought+} been faithful?[-)-]
BB p121	2040	Have I not through life kept that {+alone+} before me?)
BB p121	2041	Whom I have staid with once I have found longing for me ever afterward.
BB p122	2042	I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things!
BB p122	2043	It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great,
BB p122	2044	It is I who am great, or to be great—it is [-y-] {+Y+} ou, or any one,
BB p122	2045	It is to walk rapidly through civilizations, govern- ments, [-¶-]theories,{+,+} [-nature, -]{+¶+}{+Through [-every-]+} poems, {+pageants+} shows, to indi- viduals.
BB p122	2046	Underneath all{+,+} [-are-] individuals,
BB p122	2047	I swear nothing is good to me now that ignores individuals!
BB p122	2048	The American compact is altogether with individuals,
BB p122	2049	The only government is that which makes minute of individuals,
BB p122	2050	The whole theory of the universe is directed to one single individual—namely, to You.
BB p122	2051	Underneath all is nativity,
BB p122	2052	I swear I will stand by my own nativity—pious or impious, so be it;
BB p122	2053	I swear I am charmed with nothing except nativity,
BB p122	2054	Men, women, cities, nations, are only beautiful from nativity.
BB p122	2055	Underneath all is the need of the expression of love for men and women,
BB p122	2056	I swear I have [-had-] {+seen+} enough of mean and impotent modes of expressing love for men and women,
BB p122	2057	After this day I take my own modes of expressing love for men and women.
BB p122	2058	I swear I will have each quality of my race in myself,
BB p122	2059	(Mother! with subtle sense & the naked sword in your hand
BB p122	2060	I saw you refuse {+finally+} to treat [-with any-] but {+with+} single individual only.)
BB p123	2061	{+(+}Talk as you like, he [-only-] {+best+} suits These States whose manners favor the audacity and sublime turbu- lence of The States.{+)+}
BB p123	2062	Underneath the lessons of things, [-spirits, nature,-] [-governments-] {+adjustments+} , ownerships, I swear I perceive other lessons,
BB p123	2063	Underneath all to me is myself—to you, yourself, (the same monotonous old song,)
BB p123	2064	If all had not kernels for you and me, what were it to you and me?
BB p123	2065	O I see now, flashing, [-that-] [-this-] {+the+} America [- {+I sing to +} -] {+I sing is [-merely-]{+merely+}+} is only you and me,
BB p123	2066	Its power, weapons, testimony, are you and me,
BB p123	2067	Its roughs, beards, haughtiness, ruggedness, are you and me,
BB p123	2068	Its ample geography, the sierras, the prairies, Mis- sissippi, Huron, {+¶+}Colorado, Boston, Toronto, Raleigh, Nashville, Havana, are you and me,
BB p123	2069	Its settlements, wars, [-the organic compact,-] peace, Washington, [-the Federal Constitution,-] {+the central inland west,+} are you and me,
BB p123	2070	Its young men's manners, speech, dress, friendships, are you and me,
BB p123	2071	Its crimes, lies, thefts, defections, slavery, are you and me,
BB p123	2072	Its Congress is you and me—the officers, capitols, armies, ships, are you and me,
BB p123	2073	Its endless gestations of new States are you and me,
BB p123	2074	Its inventions, science, schools, are you and me,
BB p123	2075	Its deserts, forests, clearings, log-houses, hunters, are you and me,
BB p124	2076	Natural and artificial are you and me,
BB p124	2077	Freedom, language, poems, employments, are you and me,
BB p124	2078	Failures, successes, births, deaths, are you and me,
BB p124	2079	Past, present, future, are only you and me.
BB p124	2080	I swear I dare not shirk {+or refuse+} any part of myself,
BB p124	2081	Not any part of America, good or bad, {+dare I refuse+}
BB p124	2082	No < [-t-] > [- {+r+} -] my body—no < [-t-] > [- {+r+} -] friendship, hospitality, pro- creation,
BB p124	2083	No < [-t-] > [- {+r+} -] my Soul, nor the last explanation of prudence,
BB p124	2084	No < [-t-] > [- {+r+} -] the similitude that interlocks me with all iden- tities that exist, or ever have existed,
BB p124	2085	No < [-t-] > [- {+r+} -] faith, sin, defiance, nor any disposition or duty of myself,
BB p124	2086	No [-t-] {+r+} the promulgation of Liberty—no < [-t-] > [- {+r+} -] to cheer up slaves and horrify despots,
BB p124	2087	No [-t-] {+r+} to build for that which builds for mankind,
BB p124	2088	No [-t-] {+r+} to balance ranks, complexions, creeds, and the sexes,
BB p124	2089	No [-t-] {+r+} to justify science, nor the march of equality,
BB p124	2090	Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn beloved of time.
BB p124	2091	I swear I am for [-those-] [- {+one+} -] {+him+} [-that-] {+who+} [-have-] {+has+} never been mastered!
BB p124	2092	For {+a+} m [-e-] {+a+} n [-and-] {+or+} [-women-] {+woman+} whose [-temper[-s-]-] {+genius+} ha [-ve-] {+s+} never been mastered,
BB p124	2093	[-For those-] whom laws, theories, conventions, [-can-] {+have+} never master{+ed+}.
BB p124	2094	I swear I am for [-those-] {+him+} who walk{+s+} abreast with the whole earth!
BB p124	2095	Who inaugurate{+s+} one to inaugurate all.
BB p124	2096	[-O-] (Democracy! {+ [-I know-] {+I believe+} +} you shall yet [-conquer-] [- {+overhead+} -] revive the lands
BB p124	2097	[-Mother!-] [-i-] {+I+} n dreams I see you with spreading mantle, covering the world)
BB p125	2098	(Why let my extatic craze rage! I but sing anyhow to please myself,
BB p125	2099	To express that volcano my will.)
BB p125	2100	I swear I will not be outfaced by irrational things!
BB p125	2101	I will penetrate what it is in them that is sarcastic upon me!
BB p125	2102	I will make cities and civilizations defer to me!
BB p125	2103	(This is what I have learnt from America—it is the amount—and it I teach again.)
BB p125	2104	(Democracy! while [-the-] weapons were every where aim'd at your breast,
BB p125	2105	I saw you serenely give birth to children, saw in dreams your dilating form,
BB p125	2106	Saw you with spreading mantle covering the world.)
BB p125	2107	I will confront these shows of the day and night!
BB p125	2108	I will know if I am to be less than they!
BB p125	2109	I will see if I am not as majestic as they!
BB p125	2110	I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they!
BB p125	2111	I will see if I am to be less generous than they!
BB p125	2112	I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning!
BB p125	2113	I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, [- {+¶+} -]and I am not to be enough for myself.
BB p125	2114	I match my spirit against yours, you orbs, growths, mountains, brutes,
BB p125	2115	Copious as you are, I absorb you all in myself, and become the master myself.
BB p125	2116	[-The Many In One-] {+ [- -] {+America—+} +} {+isolated, yet embod [-y-] {+ing+} all—+}—what is it finally except myself?
BB p125	2117	These States—what are they {+ [-all-] {+for+} >+} except myself?
BB p125	2118	[-I have learned-] {+O I know now+} why the earth is gross, tantalizing, wicked—it is for my sake,
BB p125	2119	I [- {+must need+} -] take you to be mine, you < [-beautiful-] > [- {+ +} -] beautiful, terrible, rude forms.
BB p125	2120	(Mother! bend [-toward-] {+down+} me your {+bend close to+} [-mighty-] face!
BB p125	2121	I know not what [-all-] these [-struggles & plots-] {+plots & [-endless-] deferments+} are for,
BB p125	2122	I know not success—but I know that [-the-] {+your+} work [-goes-] {+goes on &+} must {+yet+} go on. [-& on-])
BB p126	2123	[-BROAD-AXE-] {+Weapon+} , shapely, naked, wan!
BB p126	2124	Head from the mother's bowels drawn!
BB p126	2125	Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one and lip only one!
BB p126	2126	Gray-blue leaf by red-heat grown! helve produced from a little seed sown!
BB p126	2127	Resting the grass amid and upon,
BB p126	2128	To be leaned, and to lean on.
BB p126	2129	Strong shapes, and attributes of strong shapes— masculine trades, sights and sounds,
BB p126	2130	Long varied train of an emblem, dabs of music,
BB p126	2131	Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ.
BB p126	2132	Welcome are all earth's lands, each for its kind,
BB p126	2133	Welcome are lands of pine and oak,
BB p126	2134	Welcome are lands of the lemon and fig,
BB p126	2135	Welcome are lands of gold,
BB p126	2136	Welcome are lands of wheat and maize—welcome those of the grape,
BB p126	2137	Welcome are lands of sugar and rice,
BB p126	2138	Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white potato and sweet potato,
BB p126	2139	Welcome are mountains, flats, sands, forests, prairies,
BB p127	2140	Welcome the rich borders of rivers, table-lands, openings,
BB p127	2141	Welcome the measureless grazing lands—welcome the teeming soil of orchards, flax, honey, hemp,
BB p127	2142	Welcome just as much the other more hard-faced lands,
BB p127	2143	Lands rich as lands of gold, or wheat and fruit lands,
BB p127	2144	Lands of mines, lands of the manly and rugged ores,
BB p127	2145	Lands of coal, copper, lead, tin, zinc,
BB p127	2146	LANDS OF IRON! lands of the make of the axe!
BB p127	2147	The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it,
BB p127	2148	The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space cleared for a garden,
BB p127	2149	The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves, after the storm is lulled,
BB p127	2150	The wailing and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
BB p127	2151	The thought of ships struck in the storm, and put on their beam-ends, and the cutting away of masts;
BB p127	2152	The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashioned houses and barns;
BB p127	2153	The remembered print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men, families, goods,
BB p127	2154	The disembarkation, the founding of a new city,
BB p127	2155	The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it—the outset anywhere,
BB p127	2156	The settlements of the Arkansas, Colorado, Ottawa, Willamette,
BB p127	2157	The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;
BB p127	2158	The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons,
BB p127	2159	The beauty of wood-boys and wood-men, with their clear untrimmed faces,
BB p128	2160	The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves,
BB p128	2161	The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,
BB p128	2162	The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the solidification;
BB p128	2163	The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
BB p128	2164	Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, {+¶+} stripes of snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
BB p128	2165	The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, {+¶+} the natural life of the woods, the strong day's work,
BB p128	2166	The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, {+¶+} the bed of hemlock boughs, and the bear-skin;
BB p128	2167	The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere,
BB p128	2168	The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mor- tising,
BB p128	2169	The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them regular,
BB p128	2170	Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises, according as they were prepared,
BB p128	2171	The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their curved limbs,
BB p128	2172	Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by posts and braces,
BB p128	2173	The hooked arm over the plate, the other arm wielding the axe,
BB p128	2174	The floor-men forcing the planks close, to be nailed,
BB p128	2175	Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,
BB p129	2176	The echoes resounding through the vacant building;
BB p129	2177	The huge store-house carried up in the city, well under way,
BB p129	2178	The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, {+¶+} carefully bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
BB p129	2179	The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands, {+¶+} rapidly laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
BB p129	2180	The flexible rise and fall of backs, the continual click of the trowels striking the bricks,
BB p129	2181	The bricks, one after another, each laid so workman- like in its place, and set with a knock of the trowel-handle,
BB p129	2182	The piles of materials, the mortar on the mortar- boards, and the steady replenishing by the hod- men;
BB p129	2183	Spar-makers in the spar-yard, the swarming row of well-grown apprentices,
BB p129	2184	The swing of their axes on the square-hewed log, shaping it toward the shape of a mast,
BB p129	2185	The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine,
BB p129	2186	The butter-colored chips flying off in great flakes and slivers,
BB p129	2187	The limber motion of brawny young arms and hips in easy costumes;
BB p129	2188	The constructor of wharves, bridges, piers, bulk-heads, floats, stays against the sea;
BB p129	2189	The city fireman—the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-packed square,
BB p129	2190	The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,
BB p130	2191	The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line, {+¶+} the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,
BB p130	2192	The slender, spasmic blue-white jets—the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders, [-and their execution,-]
BB p130	2193	The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors, if the fire smoulders under them,
BB p130	2194	The crowd with their lit faces, watching—the glare and dense shadows;
BB p130	2195	The forger at his forge-furnace, and the user of iron after him,
BB p130	2196	The maker of the axe large and small, and the welder and temperer,
BB p130	2197	The chooser breathing his breath on the cold steel, and trying the edge with his thumb,
BB p130	2198	The one who clean-shapes the handle and sets it firmly in the socket,
BB p130	2199	The shadowy processions of the portraits of the past users also,
BB p130	2200	The primal patient mechanics, the architects and engineers,
BB p130	2201	The far-off Assyrian edifice and Mizra edifice,
BB p130	2202	The Roman lictors preceding the consuls,
BB p130	2203	The antique European warrior with his axe in combat,
BB p130	2204	The uplifted arm, the clatter, of blows on the helmeted head,
BB p130	2205	The death-howl, the limpsey tumbling body, the rush of friend and foe thither,
BB p130	2206	The siege of revolted lieges determined for liberty,
BB p130	2207	The summons to surrender, the battering at castle gates, the truce and parley,
BB p131	2208	The sack of an old city in its time,
BB p131	2209	The bursting in of mercenaries and bigots tumul- tuously and disorderly,
BB p131	2210	Roar, flames, blood, drunkenness, madness,
BB p131	2211	Goods freely rifled from houses and temples, screams of women in the gripe of brigands,
BB p131	2212	Craft and thievery of camp-followers, men running, old persons despairing,
BB p131	2213	The hell of war, the cruelties of creeds,
BB p131	2214	The list of all executive deeds and words, just or unjust,
BB p131	2215	The power of personality, just or unjust.
BB p131	2216	Muscle and pluck forever!
BB p131	2217	What invigorates life, invigorates death,
BB p131	2218	And the dead advance as much as the living advance,
BB p131	2219	And the future is no more uncertain than the present,
BB p131	2220	And the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the delicatesse of the earth and of man,
BB p131	2221	And nothing endures but personal qualities.
BB p131	2222	What do you think endures?
BB p131	2223	Do you think the greatest city endures?
BB p131	2224	Or a teeming manufacturing state? or a prepared constitution? or the best built steamships?
BB p131	2225	Or hotels of granite and iron? or any chef-d'œuvres of engineering, forts, armaments?
BB p131	2226	Away! These are not to be cherished for themselves,
BB p131	2227	They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musicians play for them,
BB p131	2228	The show passes, all does well enough of course,
BB p131	2229	All does very well till one flash of defiance.
BB p132	2230	The greatest {+great+} city is that which has the greatest man or woman,
BB p132	2231	If it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
BB p132	2232	The place where the greatest city stands [- {+¶+} -] is not the place of stretched wharves, docks, manufactures, deposits of produce,
BB p132	2233	Nor the place of ceaseless salutes of new comers, or the anchor-lifters of the departing,
BB p132	2234	Nor the place of the tallest and costliest buildings, or shops selling goods from the rest of the earth,
BB p132	2235	Nor the place of the best libraries and schools—nor the place where money is plentiest,
BB p132	2236	Nor the place of the most numerous population.
BB p132	2237	Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards,
BB p132	2238	Where the city stands that is beloved by these, and loves them in return, and understands them,
BB p132	2239	Where these may be seen going every day in the streets, with their arms familiar to the shoulders of their friends,
BB p132	2240	Where no monuments exist to heroes, but in the common words and deeds,
BB p132	2241	Where thrift is in its place, and prudence is in its place,
BB p132	2242	Where behavior is the finest of the fine arts,
BB p132	2243	Where the men and women think lightly of the laws,
BB p132	2244	Where the slave ceases [- {+to be a slave+} -], and the master of slaves ceases,
BB p132	2245	Where the populace rise < [-at once-] > [- {+from time to time+} -] against the never- ending audacity of elected persons,
BB p133	2246	Where fierce men and women pour forth, as the sea to the whistle of death{+,+} [-pours-] its sweeping and unript waves,
BB p133	2247	Where outside authority enters always after the precedence of inside authority,
BB p133	2248	Where the citizen is always the head and ideal—and President, Mayor, Governor, and what not, are agents for pay,
BB p133	2249	Where children are taught [-from the jump that they are-] to be laws to themselves, and to depend on themselves,
BB p133	2250	Where equanimity is illustrated in affairs,
BB p133	2251	Where speculations on the Soul are encouraged,
BB p133	2252	Where women walk in public processions in the streets, the same as the men,
BB p133	2253	Where they enter the public assembly and take places the same as the men, [-and are appealed to by the orators, the same as the men, -]
BB p133	2254	Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands,
BB p133	2255	Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands,
BB p133	2256	Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands,
BB p133	2257	Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands,
BB p133	2258	There the greatest city stands.
BB p133	2259	How beggarly appear [-poems,-] arguments, [-orations,-] before {+an electric+} deed!
BB p133	2260	How the floridness of the materials of cities shrivels before a man's or woman's look!
BB p133	2261	All waits, or goes by default, till {+a strong being+} appears;
BB p133	2262	A strong being is the proof of the race, and of the ability of the universe,
BB p134	2263	When he or she appears, materials are overawed,
BB p134	2264	The dispute on the Soul stops,
BB p134	2265	The old customs and phrases are confronted, turned back, or laid away.
BB p134	2266	What is your money-making now? What can it do now?
BB p134	2267	What is your respectability now?
BB p134	2268	What are your theology, tuition, society, traditions, statute-books now?
BB p134	2269	Where are your jibes of being now?
BB p134	2270	Where are your cavils about the Soul now?
BB p134	2271	Was that your best? Were those your vast and solid?
BB p134	2272	Riches, opinions, politics, institutions, to part obe- diently from the path of one man or woman!
BB p134	2273	The centuries, and all authority, to be trod under the foot-soles of one man or woman!
BB p134	2274	—A sterile landscape covers the ore—there is as good as the best, {+(+}for all the forbidding appear- ance, {+)+}
BB p134	2275	There is the mine, there are the miners,
BB p134	2276	The forge-furnace is there, the melt is accomplished, {+¶+} the hammers-men are at hand with their tongs and hammers,
BB p134	2277	What always served and always serves, is at hand.
BB p134	2278	Than this nothing has better served—it has served all,
BB p134	2279	Served the fluent-tongued and subtle-sensed Greek, and long ere the Greek,
BB p135	2280	Served in building the buildings that last longer than any,
BB p135	2281	Served the Hebrew, the Persian, the most ancient Hindostanee,
BB p135	2282	Served the mound-raiser on the Mississippi—served those whose relics remain in Central America,
BB p135	2283	Served Albic temples in woods or on plains, with unhewn pillars, [-¶-] and [-the-] druids, [-and the bloody body laid in the hollow of the great stone,-]
BB p135	2284	Served the artificial clefts, vast, high, silent, on the snow-covered hills of Scandinavia,
BB p135	2285	Served those who, time out of mind, made on the granite walls [-¶-] rough sketches of the sun, moon, stars, ships, ocean-waves,
BB p135	2286	Served the paths of the irruptions of the Goths— served the pastoral tribes and nomads,
BB p135	2287	Served the [-incalculably-] {+long, long+} distant Kelt—served the hardy pirates of the Baltic,
BB p135	2288	Served before any of those, the venerable and harm- less men of Ethiopia,
BB p135	2289	Served the making of helms for the galleys of pleasure, and the making of those for war,
BB p135	2290	Served all great works on land, and all great works on the sea,
BB p135	2291	For the medival ages, and before the mediæval ages,
BB p135	2292	Served not the living only, then as now, but served the dead.
BB p135	2293	I see the European headsman,
BB p135	2294	He stands masked, clothed in red, with huge legs, and strong naked arms,
BB p135	2295	And leans on a ponderous axe.
BB p136	2296	Whom have you slaughtered lately, European heads- man?
BB p136	2297	Whose is that blood upon you, so wet and sticky?
BB p136	2298	I see the clear sunsets of the martyrs,
BB p136	2299	I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts,
BB p136	2300	Ghosts of dead lords, uncrowned ladies, impeached ministers, rejected kings,
BB p136	2301	Rivals, traitors, poisoners, disgraced chieftains, and the rest.
BB p136	2302	I see those who in any land have died for the good cause,
BB p136	2303	The seed is spare, nevertheless the crop shall never run out,
BB p136	2304	(Mind you, O foreign kings, O priests, the crop shall never run out.)
BB p136	2305	I see the blood washed entirely away from the axe,
BB p136	2306	Both blade and helve are clean,
BB p136	2307	They spirt no more the blood of European nobles— they clasp no more the necks of queens.
BB p136	2308	I see the headsman withdraw and become useless,
BB p136	2309	I see the scaffold untrodden and mouldy—I see no longer any axe upon it,
BB p136	2310	I see the mighty and friendly emblem of the power of my own race, the newest largest race.
BB p136	2311	America! I do not vaunt my love for you,
BB p136	2312	I have what I have.
BB p136	2313	The axe leaps!
BB p136	2314	The solid forest gives fluid utterances,
BB p137	2315	They tumble forth, they rise and form,
BB p137	2316	Hut, tent, landing, survey,
BB p137	2317	Flail, plough, pick, crowbar, spade,
BB p137	2318	Shingle, rail, prop, wainscot, jamb, lath, panel, gable,
BB p137	2319	Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition- house, library,
BB p137	2320	Cornice, trellis, pilaster, balcony, window, shutter, turret, porch,
BB p137	2321	Hoe, rake, pitch-fork, pencil, wagon, staff, saw, jack- plane, mallet, wedge, rounce,
BB p137	2322	Chair, tub, hoop, table, wicket, vane, sash, floor,
BB p137	2323	Work-box, chest, stringed instrument, boat, frame, and what not,
BB p137	2324	Capitols of States, and capitol of the nation of States,
BB p137	2325	Long stately rows in avenues, hospitals for orphans or for the poor or sick,
BB p137	2326	Manhattan steamboats and clippers, taking the meas- ure of all seas.
BB p137	2327	The shapes arise!
BB p137	2328	Shapes of the using of axes anyhow, and the users, and all that neighbors them,
BB p137	2329	Cutters down of wood, and haulers of it to the Pe- nobscot, or Kennebec,
BB p137	2330	Dwellers in cabins among the Californian mountains, or by the little lakes, or on the Columbia,
BB p137	2331	Dwellers south on the banks of the Gila or Rio Grande—friendly gatherings, the characters and fun,
BB p137	2332	Dwellers up north in Minnesota and by the Yellow- stone river—dwellers on coasts and off coasts,
BB p137	2333	Seal-fishers, whalers, arctic seamen breaking passages through the ice.
BB p138	2334	The shapes arise!
BB p138	2335	Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets,
BB p138	2336	Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads,
BB p138	2337	Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches,
BB p138	2338	Shapes of the fleets of barges, tows, lake craft, river craft.
BB p138	2339	The shapes arise!
BB p138	2340	Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western Seas, and in many a bay and by-place,
BB p138	2341	The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots for knees,
BB p138	2342	The ships themselves on their ways, the tiers of scaffolds, the workmen busy outside and inside,
BB p138	2343	The tools lying around, the great auger and little auger, {+¶+} the adze, bolt, line, square, gouge, and bead-plane.
BB p138	2344	The shapes arise!
BB p138	2345	The shape measured, sawed, jacked, joined, stained,
BB p138	2346	The coffin-shape for the dead to lie within in his shroud;
BB p138	2347	The shape got out in posts, in the bedstead posts, in the posts of the bride's bed,
BB p138	2348	The shape of the little trough, the shape of the rockers beneath, the shape of the babe's cradle,
BB p138	2349	The shape of the floor-planks, the floor-planks for dancers' feet,
BB p138	2350	The shape of the planks of the family home, the home of the friendly parents and children,
BB p138	2351	The shape of the roof of the home of the happy young man and woman, the roof over the well- married young man and woman,
BB p139	2352	The roof over the supper joyously cooked by the chaste wife, and joyously eaten by the chaste husband, content after his day's work.
BB p139	2353	The shapes arise!
BB p139	2354	The shape of the prisoner's place in the court-room, and of him or her seated in the place,
BB p139	2355	The shape of the pill-box, the disgraceful ointment- box, [-¶-] the nauseous application, and him or her applying it,
BB p139	2356	The shape of the liquor-bar leaned against by the young rum-drinker and the old rum-drinker,
BB p139	2357	The shape of the shamed and angry stairs, trod by sneaking footsteps,
BB p139	2358	The shape of the sly settee, and the adulterous unwholesome couple,
BB p139	2359	The shape of the gambling-board with its devilish winnings and losings,
BB p139	2360	The shape of the slats of the bed of a corrupted body, the bed of the corruption of gluttony or alcoholic drinks,
BB p139	2361	The shape of the step-ladder for the convicted and sentenced murderer, [-¶-] the murderer with haggard face and pinioned arms,
BB p139	2362	The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipped crowd, [-¶-] the sickening dangling of the rope.
BB p139	2363	The shapes arise!
BB p139	2364	Shapes of doors [-giving so-] {+with {+&+} their+} many exits and en- trances,
BB p139	2365	The door passing the dissevered friend, flushed, and in haste,
BB p140	2366	The door that admits good news and bad news,
BB p140	2367	The door whence the son left home, confident and puffed up,
BB p140	2368	The door he {+returning+} entered again from a long and scan- dalous absence, {+¶+} diseased, broken down, without innocence, without means.
BB p140	2369	Their shapes arise, above all [-the rest—-] {+else,+} the shapes of full-sized men,
BB p140	2370	Men taciturn yet loving, used to the open air, and the manners of the open air,
BB p140	2371	Saying their ardor in native forms, saying the old response,
BB p140	2372	Take what I have then, (saying fain,) take the pay you approached for,
BB p140	2373	Take the white tears of my blood, if that is what you are after.
BB p140	2374	Her shape arises, {+the perfect matron,+}
BB p140	2375	She, less guarded than ever, yet more guarded than ever,
BB p140	2376	The gross and soiled she moves among do not make her gross and soiled, {+—she is the {+perfect matron+},+}
BB p140	2377	She knows the thoughts as she passes—nothing is concealed from her,
BB p140	2378	She is none the less considerate or friendly therefore,
BB p140	2379	She is the best-beloved—it is without exception— she has no reason to fear, and she does not fear,
BB p140	2380	Oaths, quarrels, hiccupped songs, [-proposals,-] smutty expressions, are idle to her as she passes,
BB p140	2381	She is silent—she is possessed of herself—they do not offend her,
BB p141	2382	She receives them as the laws of nature receive them —she is strong,
BB p141	2383	She too is a law of nature—there is no law stronger than she is.
BB p141	2384	His shape arises,
BB p141	2385	[-Arrogant, masculine, näive, rowdyish,-]
BB p141	2386	Laugher, weeper, [-worker,-] idler, citizen, countryman,
BB p141	2387	Saunterer of woods, stander upon hills, summer swimmer in rivers or by the sea,
BB p141	2388	Of pure American breed, of reckless health, his body perfect, {+¶+} free from taint from top to toe, free forever from headache and dyspepsia, clean- breathed,
BB p141	2389	Ample-limbed, a good feeder, weight a hundred and [-eighty-] {+ninety+} pounds, {+¶+} full-blooded, six feet high, forty{+‑two+} inches round the breast and back,
BB p141	2390	Countenance sun-burnt, bearded, calm, unrefined,
BB p141	2391	Reminder of animals, meeter of savage and gentleman on equal terms [-,-] {+.+}
BB p141	2392	Attitudes lithe and erect, costume free, neck gray and open, of slow movement on foot,
BB p141	2393	Passer of his right arm round the shoulders of his friends, companion of the street [-,-] {+.+}
BB p141	2394	Persuader always of people to give him their sweetest touches, and never their meanest,
BB p141	2395	A Manhattanese bred, fond of Brooklyn, fond of Broadway, {+¶+} fond of the life of the wharves and the great ferries,
BB p141	2396	Enterer everywhere, welcomed everywhere, easily understood after all,
BB p141	2397	Never offering others, always offering himself, corrob- orating his phrenology,
BB p142	2398	Voluptuous, inhabitive, combative, conscientious, alimentive, intuitive, [-of copious friendship, sublimity, firmness, self-esteem, comparison, individuality, form, locality, eventuality,-]
BB p142	2399	Avowing by life, manners, works, to contribute illus- trations of results of The States,
BB p142	2400	Teacher of the unquenchable creed, namely, egotism,
BB p142	2401	Inviter of others continually henceforth to try their strength against his.
BB p142	2402	The [-main-] shapes {+ [- -] {+of our own+} +} arise!
BB p142	2403	Shapes of Democracy, final [-—result of-] {+—out of the+} centuries [-,-] {+;+}
BB p142	2404	Shapes of those that do not joke with life, but are in earnest with life,
BB p142	2405	Shapes, ever projecting other shapes,
BB p142	2406	Shapes of a hundred [-Free-] States, [-begetting another hundred north and south, -]
BB p142	2407	Shapes of turbulent manly cities,
BB p142	2408	Shapes of an untamed breed of young men, and natural persons,
BB p142	2409	Shapes of the women fit for These States,
BB p142	2410	Shapes of the composition of all the varieties of the earth,
BB p142	2411	Shapes of the friends and home-givers of the whole earth,
BB p142	2412	Shapes bracing the whole earth, and braced with the whole earth.
BB p143	2413	COME closer to me,
BB p143	2414	Push closer, my lovers, and take the best I possess,
BB p143	2415	Yield closer and closer, and give me the best you
BB p143	2416	possess.
BB p143	2417	This is unfinished business with me—How is it with you?
BB p143	2418	{+(+}I was chilled with the cold types, cylinder, wet paper between us.{+)+}
BB p143	2419	Male and Female!
BB p143	2420	I pass so poorly with paper and types, I must pass with the contact of bodies and [-s-] {+S+} ouls.
BB p143	2421	American masses!
BB p143	2422	I do not thank you for liking me as I am, and liking the touch of me [-—-] {+¶+} I know that it is good for you to do so.
BB p143	2423	Workmen and Workwomen!
BB p143	2424	Were all educations, practical and ornamental, well displayed out of me, what would it amount to?
BB p143	2425	Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman, what would it amount to?
BB p143	2426	[-This is the chant of the-] [- {+(I am the poet+} -] {+This is the chantet+} {+of occupations, & the+} of occupations
BB p143	2427	In [-the labor-] of {+laboring with engines,+} trades & [-the-] fields I perceive [-the-] {+God's+} [-greatest meanings,-] {+[-God's-] the etnernal meaning.)+}
BB p143	2428	Impossible else or on less terms.
BB p144	2429	Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
BB p144	2430	The learned, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms,
BB p144	2431	A man like me, and never the usual terms.
BB p144	2432	Neither a servant nor a master am I,
BB p144	2433	I take no sooner a large price than a small price— I will have my own, whoever enjoys me,
BB p144	2434	I will be even with you, and you shall be even with me.
BB p144	2435	If you stand at work in a shop, I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop,
BB p144	2436	If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend, I demand as good as your brother or dearest friend,
BB p144	2437	If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I must be personally as welcome,
BB p144	2438	If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
BB p144	2439	If you remember your foolish and outlawed deeds, do you think I cannot remember my own foolish and outlawed deeds? [-plenty of them;-]
BB p144	2440	If you carouse at the table, I carouse at the opposite side of the table,
BB p144	2441	If you meet some stranger in the streets, and love him or her, [-do-] {+why+} I [-not-] often meet strangers in the street, and love them?
BB p144	2442	If you see [-a good deal-] {+so much+} remarkable in me, I see just as much, perhaps more, in you.
BB p145	2443	Why, what have you thought of yourself [- {+mechanic+} -]?
BB p145	2444	Is it you then that thought yourself less?
BB p145	2445	Is it you that thought the President greater than you?
BB p145	2446	Or the rich better off than you? or the educated wiser than you?
BB p145	2447	Because you are greasy or pimpled,{+¶+} or that you was once drunk,[- {+¶+} -] or a thief, or diseased, [-or rheumatic,-] or a prostitute [-,-] {+—+} or are so now, {+¶+}[-or from frivolity or impotence,-] [-o-] {+O+} r that you are no scholar, and never saw your name in print, {+¶+}do you give in that you are any less immortal?
BB p145	2448	Souls of men and women! it is not you I call unseen, unheard, untouchable and untouching,
BB p145	2449	It is not you I go argue pro and con about, and to settle whether you are alive or no,
BB p145	2450	I own publicly who you are, if nobody else owns [-—-] {+.+} [-I see and hear you, and what you give and take,-]
BB p145	2451	[-{+(+}What is there you cannot give and take?{+)+}-]
BB p145	2452	I see not merely that you are polite or white-faced, {+¶+}married, single, citizens of old States, citizens of new States,
BB p145	2453	Eminent in some profession, a lady or gentleman in a parlor, {+¶+}or dressed in the jail uniform, or pulpit uniform [-;-] {+.+}
BB p145	2454	Grown, half-grown, and babe, of this country and every country, {+¶+}indoors and outdoors, one just as much as the other[-,-] I see, {+¶ [-t-] {+T+} he Souls {+of ever & all I acknowledge,+} I [-see ownt-] the main things,+}
BB p145	2455	{+Them before all I see+} And all else [-is-] behind or through them.
BB p146	2456	The wife—and she is not one jot less than the husband,
BB p146	2457	The daughter—and she is just as good as the son,
BB p146	2458	The mother—and she is every bit as much as the father.
BB p146	2459	Offspring of [-those not rich,-] {+ignorant and poor,+} boys apprenticed to trades,
BB p146	2460	Young fellows working on farms, and old fellows working on farms,
BB p146	2461	The näive, the simple and hardy, he going to the polls to vote, he who has a good time, and he has who a bad time,
BB p146	2462	[-Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals,-]{+Sailor‑men,+} [-laborers, sailors, {+before the mast+} man-o'wars-men,-] merchantmen, coasters, {+immigrants,+}
BB p146	2463	All these I see—but nigher and farther the same I see,
BB p146	2464	None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape me.
BB p146	2465	I bring what you much need, yet always have,
BB p146	2466	Not money, amours, dress, eating, but as good;
BB p146	2467	I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.
BB p146	2468	There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,
BB p146	2469	It is not what is printed, preached, discussed—it eludes discussion and print,
BB p146	2470	It is not to be put in a book—it is not in this book,
BB p146	2471	It is for you, whoever you are—it is no farther from you than your hearing and sight are from you,
BB p147	2472	It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest—it is [-not them, though it is-] endlessly provoked by them [-,-] {+.+} {+¶+}[-(what is there ready and near you now?)-]
BB p147	2473	You may read in many languages, yet read nothing about it,
BB p147	2474	You may read the President's Message, and read nothing about it there,
BB p147	2475	Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury department, or in the daily papers or the weekly papers,
BB p147	2476	And the daily [-& weekly-] papers & prices current read, & nothing about it there,
BB p147	2477	Or in the census returns, assessors' returns, prices current, or any accounts of stock.
BB p147	2478	The sun and stars that float in the open air [-—-] {+¶+} the apple-shaped earth, and we upon it—surely the drift of < [-them-] > [- {+all this+} -] is something grand!
BB p147	2479	{+(+}I do not know what it < [-is-] > [- {+says+} -] , except that it is grand, and that it is happiness,
BB p147	2480	And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation, or bon-mot, or reconnoissance,
BB p147	2481	And that it is not something which by luck may turn out well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
BB p147	2482	And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.{+)+}
BB p147	2483	The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, {+¶+}the greed that with perfect com- plaisance devours all things, {+¶+}the endless pride and out-stretching of man,[- {+—+} -][- {+with+} -] unspeakable joys and sorrows,
BB p147	2484	The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, {+¶+}and the wonders that fill each minute of time for- ever, [-and each acre of surface and space forever,-]
BB p147	2485	What have you reckon'd them for [-,-] {+,+} camerado?
BB p148	2486	Have you reckoned them [- {+all+} -] [-for [-a-] {+your+} {+merely+} trade, or farm-work? {+¶+} or for the profits of [-a-] {+your+} store? or to achieve your- self a position? {+¶+}-] or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?
BB p148	2487	[-Have you reckoned-] [- {+ that +} -] {+Or that+} the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture?
BB p148	2488	Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?
BB p148	2489	Or the attraction of gravity, and the great < [-laws and-] > harmonious combinations, [-and the fluids of the air,-] as subjects for the savans?
BB p148	2490	Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?
BB p148	2491	Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?
BB p148	2492	Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?
BB p148	2493	Old institutions—these arts, libraries, legends, {+¶ These+} col- lections, and the practice handed along in manu- factures—will we rate them so high?
BB p148	2494	Will we rate our cash and business high? I have no objection,
BB p148	2495	I rate them high as the highest—then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.
BB p148	2496	We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,
BB p148	2497	I do not say they are not grand and good, for they are,
BB p148	2498	I am this day just as much in love with them as you,
BB p149	2499	Then I am in love with you, and with all my fellows upon the earth.
BB p149	2500	We consider bibles and religions divine—I do not say they are not divine,
BB p149	2501	I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still,
BB p149	2502	It is not they who give the life—it is you who give the life,
BB p149	2503	Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.
BB p149	2504	[- -] {+You as a man or woman, [-as-] a mystic soul,+}
BB p149	2505	The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are,
BB p149	2506	The President is there in the White House for you— it is not you who are here for him,
BB p149	2507	The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you—not you here for them,
BB p149	2508	The Congress convenes every Twelfth Month for you, {+(+} [-little-] {+petty+} things these {+[-compared-] compared to you+} [-to you, to the mystic soul you are)-]
BB p149	2509	Compared to the mystic soul to you (—what are they?)
BB p149	2510	You as a , a mystic soul,
BB p149	2511	Awake! arise all you are eligible.)
BB p149	2512	Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.
BB p149	2513	List well, {+now+} my scholars dear:
BB p149	2514	All doctrines, [-all-] politics{+,+} [-and-] civilization, exurge from you,
BB p149	2515	All sculpture and monuments, and anything inscribed anywhere, are tallied in you,
BB p149	2516	The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach, is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,
BB p149	2517	If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?
BB p150	2518	The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.
BB p150	2519	< [-All-] > architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,
BB p150	2520	{+(+}Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?{+)+}
BB p150	2521	< [-All-] > music is what awakes from you, when you are reminded by the instruments,
BB p150	2522	It 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 [-,-] {+;+}
BB p150	2523	It is nearer and farther than they.
BB p150	2524	Will the whole come back then?
BB p150	2525	Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more?
BB p150	2526	Does all sit there with you, [-and here with me?-] {+with the mystic [- {+unseen+} -]{+unseen+} soul?+}
BB p150	2527	[-(-]Strange & hard [-a-] {+that+} paradox true I give,
BB p150	2528	Objects gross & the unseen [-s-] {+S+} are one [-)-].
BB p150	2529	The old, forever-new things [-—-] {+¶+} you foolish child! the closest, simplest things, this moment with you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p150	2530	Your person, and every particle that relates to your person, {+each object in passing,+}
BB p150	2531	The pulses of your brain, waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight [-,-] {+;+}
BB p150	2532	Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret between-days [-,-] {+;+}
BB p150	2533	What is called right and what is called wrong— what you behold or touch, or what causes your anger or wonder [-,-] {+;+}
BB p150	2534	The old forever‑new things,
BB p151	2535	The ankle-chain of the slave, the bed of the bed- house, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger [-,-] {+;+}
BB p151	2536	What is seen or learnt in the street, or intuitively learnt,
BB p151	2537	What is learnt in [-t-] {+T+} he public school, {+with its+} spelling, reading, writing, ciphering, the black-board, the teacher's diagrams [-,-] {+;+}
BB p151	2538	The panes of the {+house+} windows, all that appears through them [-,-] [- {+¶+} -] {+—+} the going forth in the morning, the aimless spending of the day [-,-] {+;+}
BB p151	2539	(What is it that you made money? What is it that you got what you wanted?)
BB p151	2540	The usual routine, the [-work--]shop, factory, [-yard,-] office, store, desk [-,-] {+;+}
BB p151	2541	The jaunt of hunting or fishing, and the life of hunt- ing or fishing,
BB p151	2542	[-Pasture-] {+Farm+} -life, foddering, milking, herding, and all the [-personnel and-] usages [-,-] [- {+;+} -] {+& tools,+}
BB p151	2543	The plum-orchard, apple-orchard, gardening, seed- lings, cuttings, flowers, vines,
BB p151	2544	[-Grains, manures, marl, clay, loam, the subsoil-] {+The+} plough, the shovel, [-pick, rake, hoe, irrigation, draining [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p151	2545	The curry-comb, the horse-cloth, the halter, bridle, bits, the very wisps of straw,
BB p151	2546	The barn and barn-yard, the bins, mangers, mows, racks [-,-] {+;+}
BB p151	2547	Manufactures, [-commerce,-] engineering, the building of cities, [-¶-]every trade{+,+} [-carried on there,-] and the implements of every trade,
BB p151	2548	The anvil, tongs, hammer, the axe and wedge, the square, mitre, jointer, smoothing-plane,
BB p152	2549	[-The plumbob,-] {+The+} trowel, level, [-the-] wall-scaffold, {+&+} the work of walls and ceilings, or any mason-work [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2550	[-The steam-engine,-] lever, crank, axle, piston, shaft, air-pump, boiler, {+pulley,+} beam, [-pulley,-] {+¶ +} hinge, flange, band, bolt, throttle, governors, up and down rods [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2551	The ship's compass, the sailor's tarpaulin, the stays and lanyards, {+¶ +} the ground tackle for anchoring or mooring, the life-boat for wrecks,
BB p152	2552	The sloop's tiller, the pilot's wheel and bell, the yacht or fish-smack [-—-] {+¶ +} the great gay-pennanted three- hundred-foot steamboat, under full headway, {+¶ +}with her proud fat breasts, and her delicate swift- flashing paddles [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2553	The trail, line, hooks, sinkers, and the seine, and hauling the seine [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2554	The arsenal, small-arms, rifles, gunpowder, shot, caps, wadding, ordnance for war, and carriages;
BB p152	2555	{+—+}Every-day objects, house-chairs, carpet, bed, coun- terpane of the bed, {+¶+}him or her sleeping at night, wind blowing, indefinite noises [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2556	The snow-storm or rain-storm, the tow-trowsers, the lodge-hut in the woods, the still-hunt [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2557	City and country, fire-place, candle, gas-light, heater, aqueduct [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2558	The message of the Governor, Mayor, Chief of Police —the dishes of breakfast, dinner, supper [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2559	The bunk-room, the fire-engine, the string-team, the car or truck behind [-,-] {+;+}
BB p152	2560	The paper I write on or you write on, {+and+}every word we write, {+and+} every cross and twirl of the pen, {+¶+}and the curious way we write what we think, {+(+}yet very faintly [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p153	2561	The directory, the detector, the ledger, the books in ranks on the book-shelves, the clock attached to the wall [-,-] {+;+}
BB p153	2562	The ring on your finger, the lady's wristlet, the scent- powder, the druggist's vials and jars, the draught of lager-beer,
BB p153	2563	The etui of surgical instruments, the etui of oculist's or aurist's instruments, or dentist's instruments,
BB p153	2564	The permutating lock that can be turned and locked as many different ways as there are minutes in a year,
BB p153	2565	{+Blacksmithing+} House‑building, measuring, sawing the boards,
BB p153	2566	Glass-blowing, nail-making, [-salt-making,-] {+coopering,+} tin-roofing, shingle-dressing, [-candle-making, lock-making and hanging, -]
BB p153	2567	Ship- [-carpentering-] [- {+and all the work+} -] {+joining+} , dock-building, fish-curing, ferrying, [-stone-breaking,-] flagging of [-side--]walks by flaggers,
BB p153	2568	The pump, the pile-driver, the great derrick, the coal- kiln and brick-kiln,
BB p153	2569	Coal-mines [-,-] {+and+} all that is down there [-,-] {+below—+} the lamps in the darkness, echoes, songs, what meditations, {+¶+} what vast native thoughts {+are there+} looking through smutch'd faces [-,-] {+;+}
BB p153	2570	Iron-works, forge-fires in the mountains, or by river- banks, {+¶+} men [-around-] feeling the melt with huge crowbars{+,+} [-—-] [- {+ +} -] {+the+} lumps of ore, the due combining of ore, limestone, coal [-—-] {+¶+} the 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 [-,-] {+;+}
BB p153	2571	Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works, the sugar- house, steam-saws, the great mills and factories [-,-] {+;+}
BB p153	2572	Lead-mines, and all that is done in lead-mines, or with the lead afterward [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2573	Copper-mines, the sheets of copper, and what is formed out of the sheets, and all the work in forming it [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2574	{+—+}Stone-cutting, shapely trimmings for façades, or win- dow or door lintels < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] the mallet, the tooth-chisel, the jib to protect the thumb [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2575	Oakum, the oakum-chisel, the caulking-iron—the kettle of boiling vault-cement, and the fire under the kettle [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2576	The [-cotton-bale,-] the stevedore's hook, the saw and buck of the sawyer, [- {+¶+} -]the screen of the coal- screener, [- {+¶+} -]the mould of the moulder [-,-] {+;+} {+¶+} [-the work- ing-knife of the butcher, the ice-saw, and all the work with ice [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p154	2577	The [-four-] {+five+} -double cylinder press, the hand-press, the frisket and tympan, the compositor's stick and rule, type-setting, making up the forms, {+¶+}all the work of newspaper counters, folders, carriers, news-men [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2578	[-The implements for daguerreotyping—the tools-] {+The work+} of the rigger, grappler, sail-maker, block-maker [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2579	Goods of gutta-percha, papier-mach [-e-] {+é+} , colors, brushes, brush-making, glazier's implements,
BB p154	2580	The veneer and glue-pot, the confectioner's orna- ments, the decanter and glasses, the shears and flat-iron [-,-] {+;+}
BB p154	2581	The awl and knee-strap, [-the pint measure and quart measure,-] the counter and stool [-,-] {+—+} the {+shears & flat‑iron+} [-writing-pen of quill or metal—the making of all sorts of edged tools [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p154	2582	The ladders and hanging-ropes of the gymnasium, manly exercises, the game of base-ball, running, leaping, pitching quoits [-,-] {+;+}
BB p155	2583	The designs for wall-papers, oil-cloths, carpets, the fancies for goods for women, the book-binder's stamps [-,-] {+;+}
BB p155	2584	The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, [-also by wine- makers, also vinegar-makers [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p155	2585	Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope- twisting, [-distilling, sign-painting, {+¶+}-]lime-burning, [-coopering, cotton-picking—electro-plating, elec- trotyping, stereotyping [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p155	2586	Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam- wagons [-,-] {+;+}
BB p155	2587	[-The cart of the carman, the omnibus,-] the ponderous dray [-,-] [- {+;+} -] [- {+& all waggoning;+} -]
BB p155	2588	[-This-] {+The+} message sent [-at once-] {+over a continent, [-¶and then-]+} from the East[-ern-] to the Western sea;
BB p155	2589	{+—+}The wires of the electric telegraph stretched on land, or laid at the bottom of the sea, and then the message in an instant from a thousand miles off,
BB p155	2590	The [-snow-plough, and two engines pushing it—the ride in the express-train of only one car, {+¶+}the swift go through a howling storm—the-] locomo- tive, and all that is done about [- {+or with+} -] a locomotive[-,-] {+& the train following,+}
BB p155	2591	The bear-hunt or coon-hunt—the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city, and the crowd of children watching [-,-] {+;+}
BB p155	2592	The blows of the fighting-man, the upper-cut, and one-two-three [-,-] {+;+}
BB p155	2593	Pyrotechny, letting off colored fire-works at night, fancy figures and jets [-,-] {+;+}
BB p155	2594	[-Shop-windows, coffins in the sexton's ware-room, fruit on the fruit-stand [-—-] {+¶+} -]beef [-in-] {+on+} the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the butcher in his killing-clothes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p156	2595	The [-area of-] 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 winter-work of pork-packing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p156	2596	Flour-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, -]
BB p156	2597	The work of men on railroads, coasters, fish‑boats, canals,
BB p156	2598	Bread and cakes in the bakery, the milliner's rib- bons, the dress-maker's patterns, the tea-table, the home-made sweetmeats;
BB p156	2599	Cheap literature, maps, charts, lithographs, daily and weekly newspapers [-,-] {+;+}
BB p156	2600	The column of wants in the [-one-cent-] [- {+morning+} -] paper, the news by telegraph, amusements, operas, shows [-,-] {+;+}
BB p156	2601	The business parts of a city, the trottoirs of a city when thousands of well-dressed people walk up and down [-,-] {+;+}
BB p156	2602	The cotton, woollen, linen you wear [-,-] {+—+} the money you make and spend,
BB p156	2603	Your room and bed-room, your piano-forte, the stove and cook-pans,
BB p156	2604	The house you live in, the rent, the other tenants, the deposit in the savings-bank, the trade at the grocery,
BB p156	2605	The pay on Seventh Day night, the going home, and the purchases;
BB p156	2606	In them the heft of the heaviest—in them far more than you estimated, and far less also,
BB p156	2607	The daily routine of {+any man's+} life, the shop, yard, store, {+&+} [-desk-] factory;
BB p156	2608	These shows [-ever-] {+all+} [- near -] {+near+} you by day or night, [-your trade,-] {+— workman!+} whoever you are, your daily work [-,-] {+!+}
BB p156	2609	In them {+the+} realities for you and me—in them {+the+} poems for you and me,
BB p156	2610	In them, not yourself—you and your Soul enclose all things, regardless of estimation,
BB p157	2611	In them [- {+your+} -] [-themes,-] {+arousing pleasures &+} hints, [-provokers-]—if not, the whole earth has no [-themes,-] < [-hints,-] > {+for you+} [- {+for you soul,+} -] [-provokers,-] < [-and never had.-] >
BB p157	2612	I do not affirm what you see beyond is futile—I do not advise you to stop,
BB p157	2613	I do not say leadings you thought great are not great,
BB p157	2614	But I say that none lead {+on+} to greater, [-sadder, happier,-] than those lead to [-.-] {+,+}
BB p157	2615	And I say [-the-] {+your+} [-mechanics-] [- {+trades+} -] {+occupation[-s-]+} [-are-] {+is+} great [-as any-]—and [-their-] {+its+} very tools are great.
BB p157	2616	Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last,
BB p157	2617	In things best known to you, finding the best, or [-as-] good as the best,
BB p157	2618	In folks nearest to you finding [-also-] the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
BB p157	2619	Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place—not for another hour, but this hour,
BB p157	2620	Man in the first you see or touch< [-—-] >always [-in your friend, brother,-]{+in+} nighest neighbor—Woman in [-your-] mother, lover, wife,
BB p157	2621	The popular tastes and [-occupations-] {+employments+} taking precedence in poems or any where,
BB p157	2622	You workwomen and workmen of These States having your own divine and strong life,
BB p157	2623	Looking the President always sternly in the face, unbending, nonchalant,
BB p157	2624	Understanding that he is to be kept by you to short and sharp account of himself,
BB p157	2625	And [- {+to me+} -] all else [-thus far-] giving place to men and women like you.
BB p157	2626	O you robust, sacred!
BB p157	2627	I cannot tell you how I love you;
BB p157	2628	To me, robust the mystic soul,
BB p157	2629	Out of all phenomena, pageants, it descends to [-there to-] you,
BB p157	2630	{+And+} Over all rites, histories, wealth,
BB p158	2631	All I love America for, is contained in men and women like you.
BB p158	2632	This song & indeed all my songs are for {+men & women like+} you,
BB p158	2633	Who or what can I make much of except you?
BB p158	2634	This song of the joy of [-occupations-] {+employments+} [-—the enthusiasm thereof, is all for you-]
BB p158	2635	O all my songs are for you.
BB p158	2636	[-To me, persons like you,-] [-o-] {+O+} ver all rites, histories, wealth;
BB p158	2637	{+(+}When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
BB p158	2638	When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
BB p158	2639	When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved the supporting-desk,
BB p158	2640	When I can touch the body of books, by night or by day, and when they touch my body back again,
BB p158	2641	When the holy vessels, or the bits of the eucharist, or {+or of the churches or the+} the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silver-smiths or bakers, or the masons in their over-alls,
BB p158	2642	When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
BB p158	2643	When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
BB p158	2644	When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite, and are my friendly companions,
BB p158	2645	I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do of men and women like you.
BB p159	2646	AMERICA always! {+Always to cull from our own+}
BB p159	2647	< [-Always me joined with you, whoever you are!-] >
BB p159	2648	{+Always+} {+the compact union {+together+} of you and me and all!+} [-Always our own feuillage!-] [- {+demain the continent!+} -]
BB p159	2649	Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the price- less delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas!
BB p159	2650	Always California's golden hills and hollows—and the silver mountains of New Mexico! {+¶+}Always soft-breath'd Cuba[-!-]{+where she stretches+} {+[-off-] there in the sea;+}
BB p159	2651	Always the vast slope drained by the Southern Sea —inseparable with the slopes drained by the Eastern and Western Seas,
BB p159	2652	The area the Eighty-third [-y-] {+Y+} ear of These States—the three and a half millions of square miles,
BB p159	2653	The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay- coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,
BB p159	2654	The seven millions of distinct families, and the same number of dwellings—Always these and more, branching forth into numberless branches;
BB p159	2655	Always the free range and diversity! Always the continent of Democracy!
BB p159	2656	Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travellers, Kanada, the snows;
BB p160	2657	Always these {+really+} compact lands—lands tied at the [-hips-] {+breast+} with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes;
BB p160	2658	Always the West, with strong native persons—the increasing density there—the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;
BB p160	2659	All sights, South, North, East—all deeds, promis- cuously done at all times,
BB p160	2660	All characters, movements, growths—a few noticed, myriads unnoticed,
BB p160	2661	{+(+} [-Through-] {+From+} Mannahatta's streets I [-walking-] {+reach[-ing-]+} , {+this [-native-] {+native+} bouquet+} [-these things-] gathering [- [-;-] {+—+} {+chanting in the name of all;)+} -]
BB p160	2662	On interior rivers, by night, in the glare of pine knots, steamboats wooding up;
BB p160	2663	Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on the valley[-s-] of the [-Potomac and Rappa- hannock-] {+Mohawk+} , [-and the valleys of the Roanoke and Delaware; -]
BB p160	2664	In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks, the hills—or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink;
BB p160	2665	In a lonesome inlet, a sheldrake, lost from the flock, sitting on the water, rocking silently;
BB p160	2666	In farmers' barns, oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done [-—-] {+,+} {+(+}they rest standing[-—-]they are too tired;{+)+}
BB p160	2667	Afar on arctic ice, the she-walrus lying drowsily, while her cubs play around;
BB p160	2668	The hawk sailing where men have not yet sailed— the farthest polar sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes;
BB p160	2669	White drift spooning ahead, where the ship in the tempest dashes;
BB p160	2670	On solid land, what is done in cities, as the bells [-all-] strike midnight [-together;-] {+loud & strong & slow,+}
BB p161	2671	In primitive woods, the sounds there also sounding— the howl of the wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk;
BB p161	2672	In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead Lake—in summer visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming;
BB p161	2673	In lower latitudes, in warmer air, in the Carolinas, the large black buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree-tops,
BB p161	2674	Below, the red cedar, festooned with tylandria—the pines and cypresses, growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat;
BB p161	2675	Rude boats descending the big Pedee—climbing plants, parasites, with colored flowers and berries, enveloping huge trees,
BB p161	2676	The waving drapery on the live oak, trailing long and low, noiselessly waved by the wind;
BB p161	2677	The camp of Georgia wagoners, just after dark—the supper-fires, and the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,
BB p161	2678	Thirty or forty great wagons—the mules, cattle, horses, feeding from troughs,
BB p161	2679	The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees—the flames {+&+}[-—also the black-] smoke from the pitch-pine, curling and rising;
BB p161	2680	Southern 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 worked by horses— the clearing, curing, and packing houses;
BB p161	2681	Deep in the forest, in the piney woods, turpentine and tar dropping from the incisions in the trees —There is the turpentine distillery,
BB p162	2682	There are the negroes at work, in good health—the ground in all directions is covered with pine straw;
BB p162	2683	In Tennessee and Kentucky, slaves busy in the coal- ings, at the forge, by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking;
BB p162	2684	In Virginia, the planter's son returning after a long absence, joyfully welcomed and kissed by the aged mulatto nurse;
BB p162	2685	On [- {+Western+} -] [- {+American+} -] rivers, boatmen safely moored at night-fall, in their boats, under the shelter of high banks,
BB p162	2686	Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle—others sit on the gunwale, smoking and talking;
BB p162	2687	Late in the afternoon, the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing in the Great Dismal Swamp— {+¶+}{+(+}there are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous moss, the cypress tree, and the juniper tree;{+)+}
BB p162	2688	Northward, young men of Mannahatta—the target company from an excursion returning home at evening—the musket-muzzles all bear bunches of flowers presented by women;
BB p162	2689	Children at play—or on his father's lap a young boy fallen asleep, (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)
BB p162	2690	The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the [-Mississippi-] {+Missouri+} —he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eye around;
BB p162	2691	California life—the miner, bearded, dressed in his rude costume—the stanch California friendship [-—-] {+¶+} the sweet air—the graves one, in passing, meets, solitary, just aside the horse-path;
BB p163	2692	Down in Texas, the cotton-field, the negro-cabins— drivers driving mules or oxen before rude carts —cotton-bales piled on banks and wharves;
BB p163	2693	Encircling all, vast-darting, up and wide, the [- Amer- ican -] {+ {+National+} +} {+Soul+}, with equal hemispheres—one Love, one Dilation or Pride;
BB p163	2694	In arriere, the peace-talk with the Iroquois, the aborigines—the calumet, the pipe of good-will arbitration, and indorsement,
BB p163	2695	The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,
BB p163	2696	The drama of the scalp-dance enacted {+for sport+} with painted faces and guttural exclamations,
BB p163	2697	The setting out of the war-party—the long and stealthy march,
BB p163	2698	The single file—the swinging hatchets—the surprise and slaughter of enemies;
BB p163	2699	All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of These States—[-reminiscences, all institutions,-] {+with me observant {+—me [-these-] {+them+} {+and my+} flowers gathering+}+}
BB p163	2700	All These States, compact—Every square mile of These States, without excepting a particle—you also—me also,
BB p163	2701	Me pleased, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok's fields,
BB p163	2702	[-Me, observing-] the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies, shuffling between each other, ascend- ing high in the air;
BB p163	2703	The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects—the fall traveller southward, but returning northward early in the spring;
BB p163	2704	The country boy at the close of the day, driving the herd of cows, and shouting to them as they loiter to browse by the road-side;
BB p164	2705	The city wharf—Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, San Francisco,
BB p164	2706	The departing ships, when the sailors heave at the capstan [-;-] {+—+}
BB p164	2707	Evening—[-me in my room-]—the setting sun,
BB p164	2708	The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing me 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;
BB p164	2709	The athletic American matron speaking in public to crowds of listeners;
BB p164	2710	Males, females, immigrants, combinations—the co- piousness [-—-] {+¶+} the individuality and sovereignty of The States, each for itself—the money- makers;
BB p164	2711	Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces—the windlass, lever, pulley—All certainties,
BB p164	2712	The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,
BB p164	2713	In space, the sporades, the scattered islands, the stars —on the firm earth, the lands, my lands,
BB p164	2714	O lands! {+O+} all so dear to me—what you are, ( what- ever it is,) I become a part of that, whatever it is,
BB p164	2715	Southward there, I screaming, with wings slow flap- ping, with the myriads of gulls wintering along the coasts of Florida[-—or in Louisiana, with pelicans breeding,-]
BB p164	2716	Otherways, 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;
BB p165	2717	Northward, 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;
BB p165	2718	Retreating, triumphantly twittering, the king-bird, from piercing the crow with its bill, for amuse- ment—And I triumphantly twittering;
BB p165	2719	The 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 re- lieved by other sentinels [-—-] {+; ¶+} [-And I feeding and taking turns with the rest;-]
BB p165	2720	{+—+}In Kanadian forests, the moose, large as an ox, cor- nered by hunters, rising desperately on his hind- feet, [-and-] {+¶ Then+} plunging with his fore-feet, the hoofs as sharp as knives—And I, plunging at the hunters, cornered and desperate;
BB p165	2721	{+—+}In the Mannahatta, streets, piers, shipping, store- houses, and the countless workmen working in the shops,
BB p165	2722	And I too of the Mannahatta, singing thereof— {+singing the sights {+& songs+} of all my lands+} [-and no less in myself than the whole of the Manna- hatta in itself,-]
BB p165	2723	Singing the song of These, my [-ever-] united lands —my body no more inevitably united, part to part, and made one identity, {+¶+}any more than my lands are inevitably united, and made [-ONE IDENTITY-] {+one identity+} [-,-] {+;+}
BB p165	2724	{+—+}Nativities, climates, the grass of the great Pastoral Plains,
BB p165	2725	Cities, labors, death, animals, products, good and evil —these me,
BB p166	2726	These affording, in all their particulars, endless feuillage {+and blossoms+} 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?-]
BB p166	2727	Whoever you are! how can I but offer you divine leaves, that you also be eligible as I am?
BB p166	2728	How can I but, as here, chanting, invite you for yourself to collect bouquets of < [-the incomparable feuillage of-] > The< [-se-] > States?
BB p166	2729	{+A cry in a dream I heard with ironical taunting, voice+}RESPONDEZ! Respondez!
BB p166	2730	Let every one answer {+Respondez! it called— [-you-] {+(we+} may as well say it, as think it,)+} {+(A cry in a dream I heard, with ironical taunting)+}! {+¶+}Let those who sleep be waked! Let none evade—not you, any more than others!
BB p166	2731	(If it really be as is [-pretended,-]{+felt at bottom,+} how much longer must we go on with our affectations and sneaking?
BB p166	2732	Let me bring this to a close—I pronounce openly for a new distribution of roles [-,-] {+;+} )
BB p166	2733	Let that which stood in front go behind! and let that which was behind advance to the front and speak [-!-] {+;+}
BB p166	2734	Let murderers, thieves, bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions [-!-] {+;+}
BB p166	2735	Let the old propositions {+of the good+} be postponed [-!-] {+;+}
BB p166	2736	Let faces and theories be turned inside out [-!-] {+—+} Let meanings be freely criminal, as well as results [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2737	Let there be no suggestion above the suggestion of drudgery [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2738	Let none be pointed toward his destination [-!-] {+—+} [-(Say! do you know your destination?)-]
BB p167	2739	Let trillions of men and women be mocked with bodies and mocked with Souls [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2740	Let the love that waits in them, wait [-!-] {+—+} Let it die, or pass still-born to other spheres [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2741	Let the sympathy that waits in every man, wait [-!-] {+—+} or let it also pass, a dwarf, to other spheres [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2742	Let contradictions prevail [-!-] {+—+} Let one thing contradict another [-!-] {+—+} and let one line of my poems contradict another [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2743	Let the people sprawl with yearning aimless hands [-!-] {+—+} Let their tongues be broken [-!-] {+—+} Let their eyes be discouraged [-!-] {+—+} Let none descend into their hearts with the fresh lusciousness of love [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2744	Let the theory of America be management, caste, comparison [-!-] {+—+} ([-Say!-] what other theory would you?)
BB p167	2745	Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest [-!-] {+—+} ([-Say!-] why shall they not lead you?)
BB p167	2746	Let the crust of hell be neared and trod on [-!-] {+—+} Let the days be darker than the nights [-!-] {+—+} Let slumber bring less slumber than waking-time brings [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2747	Let the world never appear to him or her for whom it was all made [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2748	Let the heart of the young man exile itself from the heart of the old man [-!-] {+—+} and let the heart of the old man be exiled from that of the young man [-!-] {+;+}
BB p167	2749	Let the sun and moon go [-!-] {+—+} Let scenery take the applause of the audience [-!-] {+—+} Let there be apathy under the stars [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2750	Let freedom prove no man's inalienable right [-!-] {+—+} {+(+}Every one who can tyrannize, let him tyrannize to his satisfaction [-!-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p168	2751	Let none but infidels be countenanced [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2752	Let the eminence of meanness, treachery, sarcasm, hate, greed, indecency, impotence, lust, be taken for granted above all[-!-] {+¶+}Let writers, judges, gov- ernments, households, religions, philosophies, take such for granted above all [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2753	Let the worst men beget children out of the worst women [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2754	Let priests still play at immortality [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2755	Let Death be inaugurated [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2756	Let [-nothing remain upon the earth-] {+the treasure of+} [-except-] {+be+} the ashes of teachers, artists, moralists, lawyers, and learned and polite persons [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2757	Let him who is without my poems be assassinated [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2758	Let the cow, the horse, the camel, the garden-bee— {+¶+}Let the mud-fish, the lobster, the mussel, eel, the sting-ray, and the grunting pig-fish [-—-] {+¶+} Let these, and the like of these, be put on a perfect equality with man and woman [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2759	Let churches accommodate serpents, vermin, and the corpses of those who have died of the most filthy of diseases [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2760	Let marriage slip down among fools, and be for none but fools [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2761	Let men {+gather+}among themselves {+&+} talk and think obscenely of women [-!-] {+—+} and let women {+gather+} among themselves {+&+}talk and think obscenely of men [-!-] {+;+}
BB p168	2762	Let every man doubt every woman [-!-] {+—+} and let every woman trick every man [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2763	Let us all, without missing one, be exposed in public, naked, monthly, at the peril of our lives [-!-] {+;+} {+¶+}Let our bodies be freely handled and examined by whoever chooses [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2764	Let nothing but copies, pictures, statues, reminis- cences, elegant works, be permitted to exist upon the earth [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2765	Let the earth desert God, nor let there ever hence- forth be mentioned the name of God [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2766	Let there be no God [-!-] {+;+} {+(so call'd this voice in my dream;)+}
BB p169	2767	Let there be money, business, imports, exports, cus- tom, authority, precedents, pallor, dyspepsia, smut, ignorance, unbelief!
BB p169	2768	Let judges and criminals be transposed [-!-] {+—+} Let the prison-keepers be put in prison [-!-] {+—+} {+¶+} Let those that were prisoners take the keys [-!-] {+—+} {+¶+} ( [-Say!-] {+for+} why might they not just as well be transposed?)
BB p169	2769	Let the slaves be masters [-!-] {+—+} ! Let the masters become slaves [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2770	Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling [-!-] {+—+} {+¶+} Let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2771	Let the Asiatic, the African, the European, the American and the Australian, go armed against the murderous stealthiness of each other [-!-] {+—+} {+¶+} Let them sleep armed [-!-] {+;+} Let none believe in good-will [-!-] {+;+}
BB p169	2772	Let there be no unfashionable wisdom [-!-] {+—+} Let such be scorned and derided off from the earth!
BB p169	2773	Let a floating cloud in the sky—Let a wave of the sea [-—-] {+¶+} [-Let one glimpse of your eye-sight upon the landscape or grass [-—-] {+¶+} -]Let growing mint, spinach, onions, tomatoes [-—-] {+¶+} Let these be exhibited as shows at a great price for admission [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2774	Let all the men of These States stand aside for a few smouchers [-!-] {+—+} Let the few seize on what they choose [-!-] {+—+} Let the rest gawk, giggle, starve, obey [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2775	Let shadows be furnished with genitals [-!-] {+—+} Let sub- stances be deprived of their genitals [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2776	Let there be wealthy and immense cities—but through any of them, not [-a-] {+one+} single poet, saviour, knower, lover [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2777	Let the infidels of These States laugh all faith away [-!-] {+—+} If one man be found who has faith, let the rest set upon him[-!-]{+¶+} Let them affright faith [-!-] {+—+} Let them destroy the power of breeding faith [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2778	Let the she-harlots and the he-harlots be prudent! Let them dance on, while seeming lasts [-!-] {+—+} (O seeming! seeming! seeming!)
BB p170	2779	Let the preachers recite [- {+the inherited+} -] creeds [-!-] {+—+} Let them teach only what they have been taught! [- {+by rote;+} -]
BB p170	2780	Let the preachers of creeds never dare to go meditate candidly upon the hills, alone, by day or by night! (If one ever once dare, he is lost!)
BB p170	2781	Let insanity [-have-] {+henceforth take+} charge of sanity [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2782	Let books take the place of trees, animals, rivers, clouds [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2783	Let the daubed portraits of heroes supersede heroes [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2784	Let the manhood of man never take steps after itself [-!-] {+;+} {+¶+}Let it take steps after eunuchs, and after con- sumptive and genteel persons [-!-] {+;+}
BB p170	2785	Let the white person tread the black person under his heel [-!-] {+—+} {+¶+} ( [-Say!-] {+Ah,+} which is trodden under heel, after all ?)
BB p170	2786	Let the reflections of the things of the world be studied in mirrors [-!-] {+—+} {+¶+} Let the things themselves continue unstudied [-!-] {+;+}
BB p171	2787	Let a man seek pleasure everywhere except in him- self! {+¶+} Let a woman seek happiness everywhere except in herself! {+¶+} ([-Say!-] what real happiness [- {+for instance+} -] have you had [-one-] [-single-] [-time-] {+hour+} through your whole life ?)
BB p171	2788	Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limit- less years of death! {+¶+} ([-Say!-] what do you suppose death will do, then ?)
BB p171	2789	To one just maturing
BB p171	2790	American Remembrances.
BB p171	2791	You just maturing [-youth-]<! You> male or female!
BB p171	2792	Remember the organic compact of These States,
BB p171	2793	Remember the pledge of the Old Thirteen thence- forward to the rights, life, liberty, equality of man,
BB p171	2794	Remember what was promulged by the founders, rat- ified by The States, signed in black and white by the Commissioners, and read by Washington at the head of the army,
BB p171	2795	Remember the purpose of the founders,—Remember Washington;
BB p171	2796	Remember the copious humanity streaming from every direction toward America;
BB p171	2797	Remember the hospitality that belongs to nations and men; (Cursed be nation, woman, man, without hospitality!)
BB p171	2798	[-Remember, government is to subserve individuals,-]
BB p172	2799	{+(+}Not any, not the President, is to have one jot more than you or me,
BB p172	2800	Not any habitan of America is to have one jot less than you or me.{+)+}
BB p172	2801	Anticipate when the thirty or fifty millions, are to be- come the hundred, or two hundred millions, of [-equal freemen and freewomen, amicably joined.-]
BB p172	2802	Recall ages—One age is but a part—ages are but a part;
BB p172	2803	Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions, of the idea of caste,
BB p172	2804	Recall the bloody cruelties and crimes.
BB p172	2805	Anticipate the best women;
BB p172	2806	I say an unnumbered new race of hardy and well- defined women are to spread through all These States,
BB p172	2807	I say a girl fit for These States must be free, capable, dauntless, just the same as a boy.
BB p172	2808	Anticipate your own life—retract with merciless power,
BB p172	2809	Shirk nothing—retract in time—Do you see those errors, diseases, weaknesses, lies, thefts?
BB p172	2810	Do you see that lost character?—Do you see de- cay, consumption, {+¶+} rum-drinking, dropsy, fever, mortal cancer or inflammation?
BB p172	2811	Do you see death, and the approach of death?
BB p172	2812	Think of the Soul;
BB p172	2813	I [-swear to you-] {+know+} that body of yours gives proportions to your Soul somehow to live in other spheres,
BB p172	2814	{+(+}I do not know how, but I know it is so.{+)+}
BB p173	2815	Think of loving and being loved;
BB p173	2816	[-I swear to you,-] whoever you are, you can interfuse yourself with such things {+¶+} that everybody that sees you shall look longingly upon you.
BB p173	2817	Anticipate the best women;
BB p173	2818	Think of the past;
BB p173	2819	I warn you that in a little while, others will find their past in you and your times.
BB p173	2820	{+(+}The race is never separated—nor man nor woman escapes,
BB p173	2821	All is inextricable—things, spirits, nature, nations, you too—from precedents you come.{+)+}
BB p173	2822	Recall the ever-welcome defiers, (The mothers precede them;)
BB p173	2823	Recall the sages, poets, saviours, inventors, lawgivers, of the earth,
BB p173	2824	Recall Christ, brother of rejected persons—brother of slaves, felons, idiots, and of insane and diseased persons.
BB p173	2825	Think of the time when you [-was-] {+were+} not yet born,
BB p173	2826	Think of times you stood at the side of the dying,
BB p173	2827	Think of the time when your own body will be dying.
BB p173	2828	Think of spiritual results,
BB p173	2829	{+(+}Sure as the earth swims through the heavens, does every one of its objects pass into spiritual results.{+)+}
BB p173	2830	Think of manhood, and you [-to be-] a man;
BB p173	2831	Do you count manhood, and the sweet of manhood, nothing?
BB p174	2832	Think of womanhood, and you [-to be-] a woman;
BB p174	2833	The creation is womanhood,
BB p174	2834	Have I not said that womanhood involves all?
BB p174	2835	Have I not told how the universe has nothing better than the best womanhood?
BB p174	2836	WITH antecedents,
BB p174	2837	With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages,
BB p174	2838	With all which, had it not been, I would not now be hero, as I am,
BB p174	2839	With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece, and Rome,
BB p174	2840	With the [-C-] {+K+} elt, the Scandinavian, the Alb, and the Saxon,
BB p174	2841	With antique maritime ventures—with laws, arti- sanship, wars, and journeys,
BB p174	2842	With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle,
BB p174	2843	With the sale of slaves—with enthusiasts—with the troubadour, the crusader, and the monk,
BB p174	2844	With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent,
BB p174	2845	With the fading kingdoms and kings over there,
BB p174	2846	With the fading religions and priests,
BB p174	2847	With the small shores we look back to, from our own large and present shores,
BB p175	2848	With countless years drawing themselves onward, and arrived at these years,
BB p175	2849	You and Me arrived—America arrived, and making this year,
BB p175	2850	This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.
BB p175	2851	O but it is not the years—it is I—it is You,
BB p175	2852	We touch all laws, and tally all antecedents,
BB p175	2853	We are the skald, the oracle, the monk, and the knight—we easily include them, and more,
BB p175	2854	We stand amid time, beginningless and endless—we stand amid evil and good,
BB p175	2855	All swings around us—there is as much darkness as light,
BB p175	2856	The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us,
BB p175	2857	Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.
BB p175	2858	As for me, {+( [-peaceful, calm-] {+torn, stormy+} {+even as I+} amid [-my-] {+these+} vehement days.)+}
BB p175	2859	I have the idea of all, and an all, and believe in all;
BB p175	2860	I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true— I reject no part.
BB p175	2861	Have I forgotten any part?
BB p175	2862	Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.
BB p175	2863	I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews,
BB p175	2864	I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god,
BB p175	2865	I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception,
BB p175	2866	I assert that all past days were what they should have been,
BB p176	2867	And that they could no-how have been better than they were,
BB p176	2868	And that to-day is what it should be—and that America is,
BB p176	2869	And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.
BB p176	2870	In the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Past,
BB p176	2871	And in the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Present time.
BB p176	2872	I know that the past was great, and the future will be great,
BB p176	2873	And I know that both curiously conjoint in the pres- ent time,
BB p176	2874	(For the sake of him I typify—for the common average man's sake—your sake, if you are he;)
BB p176	2875	And that where I am, or you are, this present day, there is the centre of all days, all races,
BB p176	2876	And there is the meaning, to us, of all that has ever come of races and days, or ever will come.
BB p176	2877	SPLENDOR of falling day, floating and filling me,
BB p176	2878	Hour prophetic—hour resuming the past,
BB p176	2879	Inflating my throat—you, divine average!
BB p176	2880	You, Earth and Life, till the last ray gleams, I sing.
BB p177	2881	Open mouth of my Soul, uttering gladness,
BB p177	2882	Eyes of my Soul, seeing perfection,
BB p177	2883	Natural life of me, faithfully praising things,
BB p177	2884	Corroborating forever the triumph of things.
BB p177	2885	Illustrious every one!
BB p177	2886	Illustrious what we name space—sphere of unnum- bered spirits,
BB p177	2887	Illustrious the mystery of motion, in all beings, even the tiniest insect,
BB p177	2888	Illustrious the attribute of speech—the senses—the body,
BB p177	2889	Illustrious the passing light! Illustrious the pale reflection on the {+new+} moon in the western sky!
BB p177	2890	Illustrious whatever I see, or hear, or touch, to the last.
BB p177	2891	Good in all,
BB p177	2892	In the satisfaction and aplomb of animals,
BB p177	2893	In the annual return of the seasons,
BB p177	2894	In the hilarity of youth,
BB p177	2895	In the strength and flush of manhood,
BB p177	2896	In the grandeur and exquisiteness of old age,
BB p177	2897	In the superb vistas of Death.
BB p177	2898	Wonderful to depart!
BB p177	2899	Wonderful to be here!
BB p177	2900	The heart, to jet the all-alike and innocent blood,
BB p177	2901	To breathe the air, how delicious!
BB p177	2902	To speak! to walk! to seize something by the hand!
BB p177	2903	To prepare for sleep, for bed—to look on my rose- colored flesh,
BB p177	2904	To be conscious of my body, so amorous, so large,
BB p178	2905	To be this incredible God I am,
BB p178	2906	To have gone forth among other Gods—those men and women I love.
BB p178	2907	Wonderful how I celebrate you and myself!
BB p178	2908	How my thoughts play subtly at the spectacles around!
BB p178	2909	How the clouds pass silently overhead!
BB p178	2910	How the earth darts on and on! and how the sun, moon, stars, dart on and on!
BB p178	2911	How the water sports and sings! (Surely it is alive!)
BB p178	2912	How the trees rise and stand up—with strong trunks —with branches and leaves!
BB p178	2913	(Surely there is something more in each of the trees— some living Soul.)
BB p178	2914	O amazement of things! even the least particle!
BB p178	2915	O spirituality of things!
BB p178	2916	O strain musical, flowing through ages and continents —now reaching me and America!
BB p178	2917	I take your strong chords—I intersperse them, and cheerfully pass them forward.
BB p178	2918	I too carol the sun, ushered, or at noon, or {+as now+} setting,
BB p178	2919	I too throb to the brain and beauty of the earth, and of all the growths of the earth,
BB p178	2920	I too have felt the resistless call of myself.
BB p178	2921	As I sailed down the Mississippi,
BB p178	2922	As I wandered over the prairies,
BB p178	2923	As I have lived—As I have looked through my windows, my eyes,
BB p179	2924	As I went forth in the morning—As I beheld the light breaking in the east,
BB p179	2925	As I bathed on the beach of the Eastern Sea, and again on the beach on the Western Sea,
BB p179	2926	As I roamed the streets of inland Chicago—whatever streets I have roamed,
BB p179	2927	Wherever I have been, I have charged myself with contentment and triumph.
BB p179	2928	I sing the Equalities,
BB p179	2929	I sing the endless finales of things,
BB p179	2930	I say Nature continues—Glory continues,
BB p179	2931	I praise with electric voice,
BB p179	2932	For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
BB p179	2933	And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
BB p179	2934	O setting sun! O when [-the-] {+my+} time comes,
BB p179	2935	I still warble under you, if none else does, unmiti- gated adoration!
BB p179	2936	[-A THOUGHT of what I am here for,-]
BB p179	2937	Of these years I sing—how they pass through con- vulsed pains, as through parturitions;
BB p179	2938	How America illustrates birth, gigantic youth, the promise, the sure fulfilment, despite of people —Illustrates evil as well as good;
BB p180	2939	Of how many hold despairingly yet to the models departed, caste, myths, obedience, compulsion, and to infidelity;
BB p180	2940	How few see the arrived models, {+the Athletes+}, The States—or see freedom or spirituality—or [-hold-] {+have+} any faith in results,
BB p180	2941	(But I see the Athletes—and I see the results glorious and inevitable—and they again leading to other results;)
BB p180	2942	How the great cities appear—How the Democratic masses, turbulent, wilful, as I love them,
BB p180	2943	How the whirl, the contest, the wrestle of evil with good, {+the fierce disruptions,+} the sounding and resounding, keep on and on;
BB p180	2944	How society waits unformed, and is between things ended and things begun;
BB p180	2945	How 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;
BB p180	2946	And how The States are complete in themselves {+despite of any disruptions,+}— And how all triumphs and glories are complete in themselves, to lead onward,
BB p180	2947	And how these of mine, and of The States, will in their turn be convulsed, and serve other par- turitions and transitions,
BB p180	2948	And how all people, sights, combinations, the Demo- cratic masses too, serve—and how every fact serves,
BB p180	2949	And how now, or at any time, each serves the exquisite transition of Death.
BB p181	2950	[-HISTORIAN!-] [-y-] {+Y+} ou who < [-celebrate-] > [- {+outline+} -] bygones!
BB p181	2951	[-You-] {+who+} have explored the [-outward, the-] surface of the races—the life that has exhibited itself,
BB p181	2952	[-You-] {+who+} have treated man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers, and priests;
BB p181	2953	[- [-But now-] {+Lo!+} I also, arriving, {+now+} contribute something:-]
BB p181	2954	I, an habitué of the Alleghanies, treat man as he is in the influences of Nature, in himself, in his own [-inalienable-] right[-s-],
BB p181	2955	Advancing, to give the spirit and the traits of new Democratic ages, myself, personally,
BB p181	2956	(Let the future behold them all in me—Me, so puzzling and contradictory—Me, [-a Manhattan- ese,-] the most loving and arrogant of men;)
BB p181	2957	I do not tell the usual facts, proved by records and documents,
BB p181	2958	What I tell, (talking to every born American,) requires no further proof than he or she who will hear me, will furnish, by silently meditating alone;
BB p181	2959	I press the pulse of the life that has hitherto seldom exhibited itself, but has generally sought con- cealment, (the great pride of man, in himself,)
BB p181	2960	I [-illuminate-] {+celebrate+} feelings, faults, yearnings, hopes— [-I have come at last,-] {+celebrate man in [-himself,-]+} {+his own right,+} no more ashamed [-n-]or afraid;
BB p181	2961	[-Chanter of Personality,-]{+ [-Outlining-] {+Celebrate+} no bygones [-—-] {+,+} sing much that does not exhibit itself+} outlining a history yet to be,
BB p181	2962	< [-I-] > project the [-ideal man, the-] American of the future.
BB p182	2963	[-THE thought of fruitage,-]
BB p182	2964	Of Death, (the life greater)—of seeds dropping into the ground—of birth,
BB p182	2965	Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places,
BB p182	2966	Of what Indiana, [-Kentucky-] {+Illinois+} , Ohio and the rest, are to be,
BB p182	2967	Of what a few years will show there in [-Missouri-] {+Nebraska+} , Kansas, [-Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the rest,-] {+Colorado,+}
BB p182	2968	Of what [-the feuillage of America-] {+to‑day+} is the preparation for—and of what all the sights, North, South, East and West, are;
BB p182	2969	Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake,
BB p182	2970	Of departing—of the growth of a mightier race than any yet,
BB p182	2971	Of myself, soon, perhaps, closing up my songs by these shores,
BB p182	2972	Of California—of Oregon—and of me journeying hence to live and sing there;
BB p182	2973	Of the Western Sea—of the spread inland between it and the spinal river,
BB p182	2974	Of the great pastoral area, athletic and feminine,
BB p182	2975	Of all sloping down there where the fresh free- giver, the mother, the Mississippi flows—and Westward still;
BB p183	2976	Of future men and women there{+,+}— [-of happiness-] {+very large,+} [-in those-] {+—of the+} high plateau[-s-], ranging three thousand miles, [-warm and cold,-]
BB p183	2977	Of cities yet unsurveyed and unsuspected, (as I am also, and as it must be,)
BB p183	2978	Of the new and good names—of the strong develop- ments—of the inalienable homesteads [-,-] {+.+}
BB p183	2979	Of a free original life there—of simple diet, and clean and sweet blood,
BB p183	2980	Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there,
BB p183	2981	Of immense spiritual results, future years, inland, spread there each side of the [-Anahuacs,-] {+mountains+}
BB p183	2982	Of these Leaves well-understood there, (being made for that area,)
BB p183	2983	Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there,
BB p183	2984	(O it lurks in me night and day—What is gain, after all, to savageness and freedom?)
BB p183	2985	To [-oratists—to-] [-male or female,-]
BB p183	2986	{+Thus [-o-] {+O+} n+}[-Vocalism,-] {+vocalism+} breath, measure, concentration, [- determina- tion -] {+I mused+} , [-a-] {+A+} nd the divine power to use words.
BB p183	2987	[-Are you eligible?-] [- {+Would you be eligible?+} -]
BB p183	2988	[-Are you full-lung'd and-] {+The road is long,[-—it is to be-]+} limber-lipp'd from long trial [-?-] {+,+} {+¶+} [-f-] {+F+} rom vigorous practice [-?-] {+—+} from physique [-?-] {+.+}
BB p184	2989	[-Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?-]
BB p184	2990	Remembering inland America, the high plateaus, stretching long?
BB p184	2991	Remembering [-Kanada—Remembering-] [-what edges the vast round edge of-] {+the lands drain'd by+} the Mexican Sea?
BB p184	2992	Come duly to the divine power to use words?
BB p184	2993	{+The road is long [-—-] {+,+} I mused+} [-For only at last,-] {+¶+}after many years [-—-] {+¶+} {+a voice,+} [-after chastity, friendship, procreation, prudence, and nakedness, -]
BB p184	2994	[-After treading ground and breasting river and lake,-]
BB p184	2995	After a loosened throat—[-after absorbing eras, tem- peraments, races—after knowledge, freedom, crimes, -]
BB p184	2996	[-After complete faith—-]after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions,
BB p184	2997	After these, and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the < [-divine-] > power {+to speak,+} {+to use [-w-] {+W+} ords.+}
BB p184	2998	Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all—None refuse, all attend,
BB p184	2999	Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paint- ings, machines, {+¶+}cities, [- {+¶+} -] hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in close ranks,
BB p184	3000	They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the mouth of that man, or that woman.
BB p184	3001	O now I see arise orators fit for inland America,
BB p184	3002	Yet The road is long long,
BB p184	3003	[-And I see-] {+And I see+} it is as slow to become [-an orator-] {+a great vocalist+} as to become a man,
BB p184	3004	And I see that {+all+} power is folded in < [-a great-] > [- {+actual+} -] [- {+the mightiest+} -] vocalism.
BB p184	3005	And that it is not in the words themselves, but [-in {+wondrous+} him or her that they come from.-] [-that is such-]{+something else.+}
BB p184	3006	[-Of-] {+From+} [-a great-] [- {+the mightiest+} -] {+a great+} vocalism, when you hear it, the [-merciless-] light shall pour, and the storm rage around,
BB p185	3007	Thus upon vocalism, breath, I mused, {+In America,+}
BB p185	3008	And the divine power to use words.
BB p185	3009	Every flash shall be a revelation, an insult,
BB p185	3010	The glaring flame turned on depths, on heights, on suns, on stars,
BB p185	3011	On the interior and exterior of man or woman,
BB p185	3012	On the laws of Nature—on passive materials,
BB p185	3013	On what you called death—{+(+}and what to you there- fore was death,
BB p185	3014	As far as there can be death.{+)+}
BB p185	3015	[-LAWS-] for Creation[-s-],
BB p185	3016	For strong artists and leaders [-—-] {+¶+} for fresh broods of teachers, and perfect literats for America,
BB p185	3017	[- {+And+} -] For diverse savans, and coming musicians.
BB p185	3018	[-There shall be no subject but it-] {+Subjects+} shall be treated with reference to the ensemble of the world, and the compact truth of the world [-—-] {+¶+} And no coward or copyist shall be allowed [-;-] {+.+}
BB p185	3019	There shall be no subject too pronounced [-—-] {+¶+} All works shall illustrate the divine law of indirections;
BB p185	3020	[-There they stand—-]I see them already, each poised and in its place,
BB p185	3021	Statements, models, censuses, poems, dictionaries, biographies, essays, theories— [-How-] {+They are+} complete! [-How-] relative and interfused [-!-] {+¶+} No one super- sedes another;
BB p185	3022	They do not seem to me like the old specimens[-,-] {+—they seem to tally with Nature again ( [-having-] {+they have+} gone the round of the circle and return'd.)+}
BB p186	3023	They seem to me like Nature at last, (America has given birth to them, and I have also;)
BB p186	3024	They seem to me at last as perfect as the animals, and as the rocks and weeds—fitted to them,
BB p186	3025	Fitted to the sky, to float with floating clouds—to rustle among the trees with rustling leaves,
BB p186	3026	To stretch with stretched and level waters, where ships silently sail in the distance.
BB p186	3027	What do you suppose Creation is?
BB p186	3028	What do you suppose will satisfy the Soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
BB p186	3029	What do you suppose I have intimated to you in a hundred ways, but that man or woman is as good as God?
BB p186	3030	And that there is no God any more divine than [-Yourself-] {+Yourself+} ?
BB p186	3031	And that that is what the oldest and newest myths finally mean?
BB p186	3032	And that you or any one must approach Creations through such laws?
BB p186	3033	[-POETS to come!-]
BB p186	3034	Not to-day is to justify me, [-and Democracy, and what we are for, -]
BB p186	3035	But < [-you,-] > a new brood, native, [-athletic,-] {+and+} continental, [-greater than before known,-][- {+—even you,+} -]
BB p186	3036	You must justify me.
BB p187	3037	Indeed, if it were not for you, what would [- {+amount to?+} -] {+become of me?+} [-I be?-]
BB p187	3038	What is the little I have done, except to arouse you?
BB p187	3039	I depend on being realized, long hence, {+¶+} {+There+} where the broad fat prairies spread, and thence to Oregon and California inclusive [-,-] {+;+}
BB p187	3040	I expect that the Texan and the Arizonian, ages hence, will understand me,
BB p187	3041	I expect that the future Carolinian and Georgian will understand me and love me,
BB p187	3042	I expect that Kanadians, a hundred, and perhaps many hundred years from now, [-in winter,-]{+¶+} in the splendor of the snow and woods, or on the icy lakes, will take me with them, {+¶+}and permanently enjoy themselves with me.
BB p187	3043	[-Of to-day-] [-I know I am momentary, untouched—I am the bard of the future, {+myself do little anyhow+} -]
BB p187	3044	[-I but write one or two indicative words for the future,-]
BB p187	3045	Complete or clear am I not
BB p187	3046	I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
BB p187	3047	I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, {+¶+}turns a casual look upon you, and then averts his face, {+[-idly-] humming a strain+}
BB p187	3048	[-Leaving it to you to prove and define it-] [-,-] {+.+} [- {+afterward,+} -]
BB p187	3049	[-Expecting the main things from you.-]
BB p187	3050	Leaving to you to hear it in dreams.
BB p188	3051	WHO has gone farthest[- {+yet+} -]? For I swear I < [-will-] > [- {+ +} -] [- {+ +} -] go farther;
BB p188	3052	And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of the earth;
BB p188	3053	And who most cautious? For I would be more cautious;
BB p188	3054	And who has been happiest? O I think it is I! I think no one was ever happier than I;
BB p188	3055	And who has lavished all? For I lavish constantly the best I have;
BB p188	3056	And who has been firmest? For I would be firmer;
BB p188	3057	And 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;
BB p188	3058	And who has been bold and true? For I would be the boldest and truest being of the universe;
BB p188	3059	And who benevolent? For I would show more be- nevolence than all the rest;
BB p188	3060	And who has projected beautiful words through the longest time? {+¶+} [-By God!-] I will outvie him! I will say such words, they shall stretch through longer time!
BB p188	3061	And who has received the love of the most friends? For I know what it is to receive the passionate love of many friends;
BB p188	3062	And to whom has been given the sweetest from women, and paid them in kind? For I will take the like sweets and pay them in kind;
BB p188	3063	And who has adopted the [-highest-] {+loftiest+} motto? O I will put [-over it-] my motto {+over it—+} —as it is over the top of this song!
BB p189	3064	And who possesses a perfect and enamoured body? For I do not believe any one possesses a more perfect or enamoured body than mine;
BB p189	3065	And who thinks the amplest thoughts? For I will surround those thoughts;
BB p189	3066	And who has made hymns fit for the earth? For I am mad with devouring extacy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth!
BB p189	3067	THEY shall arise in the States—[-mediums shall,-]
BB p189	3068	They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness,
BB p189	3069	They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos,
BB p189	3070	They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive,
BB p189	3071	They shall be complete women and men—their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood [-clean and-] clear,
BB p189	3072	They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of prod- ucts—they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city,
BB p189	3073	They shall train themselves to go in public to become [-oratists, (-]orators and oratresses,[-)-]
BB p189	3074	Strong and sweet shall their tongues be—poems and materials of poems shall come from their lives— they shall be makers and finders,
BB p189	3075	Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine conveyers, to convey gospels,
BB p190	3076	Characters, events, retrospections, shall be conveyed in gospels—Trees, animals, waters, shall be conveyed,
BB p190	3077	Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be conveyed.
BB p190	3078	[-Now-] {+On journeys through the States+} we start{+,+} [-hence,-] [-I with the rest, on our jour- neys through The States, -]
BB p190	3079	[-We-] willing learners of all, teachers of all, and lovers of all.
BB p190	3080	[-I-] {+We+} have watched the seasons dispensing themselves, and passing on,
BB p190	3081	And [-I-] {+We+} have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?
BB p190	3082	We dwell a while in every city and town,
BB p190	3083	We pass through Kanada, the north-east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States,
BB p190	3084	We confer on equal terms with each of The States,
BB p190	3085	We make trial of ourselves, and invite men and women to hear,
BB p190	3086	We say to ourselves, Remember, fear not, be candid, promulge the body and the Soul,
BB p190	3087	Promulge real things—Never forget the equality of humankind, and never forget immortality;
BB p191	3088	Dwell a while, and pass on—Be copious, temperate, chaste, magnetic,
BB p191	3089	And what you effuse may then return as the seasons return,
BB p191	3090	And may be just as much as the seasons.
BB p191	3091	ME imperturbe,
BB p191	3092	[-Me-] standing at ease in Nature,
BB p191	3093	Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
BB p191	3094	Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they,
BB p191	3095	Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought;
BB p191	3096	Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary—all these subordinate, (I am eternally equal with the best—I am not subordinate;)
BB p191	3097	Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland,
BB p191	3098	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,
BB p191	3099	Me, wherever my life is [-to be-] lived, O to be self-bal- anced for contingencies!
BB p191	3100	O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, acci- dents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
BB p192	3101	I WAS looking a long while for [-the history-] {+those+} of the past {+to rely on—+}[-for myself, and for these Chants-]—and now I have found [-it-] {+them+} ,
BB p192	3102	[-It is-] {+They are+} not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither accept nor reject,)
BB p192	3103	[-It is-] {+They are+} no more in the legends [-than in all else,-] {+[-they-]{+those+} are not the {+Meaning+}+}
BB p192	3104	[-It is-] {+they are+} in the present— [-it is this earth to-day,-]
BB p192	3105	[-It is-] {+They are+} in Democracy—in this America—the old world also,
BB p192	3106	[-It is-] {+In+} the life of one man or one woman to-day, the average man of to-day;
BB p192	3107	[-It is-] {+In+} [- {+in+} -] languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
BB p192	3108	[-It is-] the broad show of artificial things, ships, ma- chinery, politics, creeds, {+¶+} [- {+They are the meaning—+} -] modern improvements, and the interchanges of nations,{+—they are the meaning+}
BB p192	3109	All for the average man of to-day.
BB p192	3110	[-AMERICAN mouth-songs!-]
BB p192	3111	[-Those-] [- [-o-] {+O+} f mechanics—-] [-e-] {+E+} ach one singing, his, as it should be, blithe and strong,
BB p192	3112	The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam,
BB p193	3113	The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
BB p193	3114	The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat —the deck-hand singing on the steamboat deck,
BB p193	3115	The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench—the hatter singing as he stands,
BB p193	3116	The wood-cutter's song—the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown;
BB p193	3117	The delicious singing of the mother—or of the young wife at work—or of the girl sewing or washing—Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else,
BB p193	3118	The day what belongs to the day—At night, the party, of young fellows, robust, friendly, [-clean- blooded,-] {+¶+} singing with melodious [-voices,-] {+mouths, their strong+} melo- dious [-thoughts.-] {+songs.+}
BB p193	3119	Come! some of you! [-still be flooding-] {+flood+} The States{+!+} {+¶ Flood them+} with [-hundreds and-] thousands of mouth-songs, fit for The States only.
BB p193	3120	As I walk, solitary, unattended,
BB p193	3121	Around me I hear that eclat of the world—politics, produce,
BB p193	3122	The announcements of recognized things—science,
BB p193	3123	The approved growth of cities, and the spread of inventions.
BB p194	3124	I see the ships, (they will last a few years,)
BB p194	3125	The vast factories with their foremen and workmen,
BB p194	3126	And hear the indorsement of all, and do not object to it.
BB p194	3127	But [-we-] {+I+} too announce solid things,
BB p194	3128	Science, ships, politics, cities, factories, are not noth- ing —they serve,
BB p194	3129	They stand for realities—all is as it should be.
BB p194	3130	Then my realities,
BB p194	3131	What else is so real as mine?
BB p194	3132	Libertad, and the divine average—Freedom to every slave on the face of the earth,
BB p194	3133	The rapt promises and lumine of seers—the spir- itual world—[-these centuries-lasting songs,-]
BB p194	3134	And our visions, the visions of poets, the most solid announcements of any.
BB p194	3135	For we support all,
BB p194	3136	After the rest is done and gone, < [-we-] > [- {+ our visions +} -] remain,
BB p194	3137	There is no final reliance but upon us,
BB p194	3138	Democracy rests finally upon us, (I, my brethren, begin it,)
BB p194	3139	And our visions sweep through eternity.
BB p195	3140	ELEMENTAL drifts!
BB p195	3141	O I wish I could impress others as you and the waves have just been impressing me.
BB p195	3142	< [- As I ebbed with an ebb of the ocean of life,-] >
BB p195	3143	< [- [- As I wended the shores I know, -] -] >
BB p195	3144	{+¶+}As I walked [- {+alone+} -] [- {+¶+} -] [- {+ light+} -] [- {+rhythmic+} -] where the sea-ripples wash you, Pau- manok,
BB p195	3145	Where they rustle up, hoarse and sibilant,
BB p195	3146	Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways,
BB p195	3147	[-I,-] [-m-] {+M+} using, late in the autumn[- {+,+} -] < [-day,-] > gazing off south- ward,
BB p195	3148	Alone, held by th [-e-] {+is+} eternal [-s-] {+S+} elf of me that threatens to get the better of me, and stifle me,
BB p195	3149	[- {+I+} -] {+I+} Was seized by the spirit that trails in the lines underfoot,
BB p195	3150	In the rim, the sediment, that stands for all the water and all the land of the globe.
BB p196	3151	Fascinated, my eyes[-, reverting from the south,-] drop [-ped-] {+t+} , to follow [-those-] {+the+} slender winrows,
BB p196	3152	Chaff, straw, splinters of wood, weeds, and the sea- gluten,
BB p196	3153	Scum, scales from shining rocks, leaves of salt- lettuce, left by the tide;
BB p196	3154	{+—+}Miles walking, the sound of breaking waves {+by+} the [-other-] side of me,
BB p196	3155	[- {+O my+} -] Paumanok, there and then, as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
BB p196	3156	These you presented to me, you fish-shaped island,
BB p196	3157	As I wended [- {+ +} -]the shores I know,
BB p196	3158	< [-As I walk [-e-] [- {+'+} -] {+t+} d-] > with that eternal self of me, seeking types.
BB p196	3159	As I < [-wend-] > {+walk+} the shores I know not,
BB p196	3160	As I listen to the dirge, the voices of men and women wreck [-e-] {+'+} d,
BB p196	3161	As I inhale the impalpable breezes that set in upon me,
BB p196	3162	As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer and closer,
BB p196	3163	At once I find, the least thing that belongs to me, or that I see or touch, I know not;
BB p196	3164	I, too, but signify, at the utmost, a little wash [-ed-] {+t+} -up drift,
BB p196	3165	A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
BB p196	3166	Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
BB p196	3167	O baffled, balk [-ed-] {+t+} ,
BB p196	3168	Bent to the very earth, [-here preceding what follows,-]
BB p196	3169	Oppres [-sed-] {+t+} with myself that I have dared to open my mouth,
BB p197	3170	Aware now, that, amid all the blab whose echoes recoil upon me, [- {+¶+} -]I have not once had the least idea who or what I {+really+} am,
BB p197	3171	But that before all [-my-] {+the+} insolent poems the real ME still stands [- {+altogether+} -] untouch [-ed-] {+t+} , untold, [-altogether un- reach [-ed-] {+t+} , -]
BB p197	3172	Withdrawn far, mocking [-me-] with mock-congrat- ulatory signs and bows,
BB p197	3173	With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written{+,+} [-or [-shall-] {+can ever+} write,-]
BB p197	3174	Striking me with insults till I fall helpless upon the sand.
BB p197	3175	[-Striking me-] [-Striking me, & crying, Is it you that-] Pointing in silence to all [-my-] {+these+} songs, and then to the [-sand beneath-] {+sand &+} [-trails of debris, sand beneath-] {+beneath+}
BB p197	3176	[-O I perceive I have not understood anything—not a single object—and that no man ever can. -]
BB p197	3177	{+While+} [- {+Ah, O I think+} -] [- {+think+} -] I perceive Nature here, [-in sight of the sea,-] {+riding out of the oceans,+} {+¶+} is taking advantage of me, to dart upon me, and sting me,
BB p197	3178	Because [-I was assuming so much, And because-] I [-have-] dared [-to-] open my mouth to sing at all.
BB p197	3179	You {+shores+} oceans both! [- {+Eleme+} -] {+& pale, your [- -] trails of debris!+} [-You tangible land! Nature!-]
BB p197	3180	[-Be not too rough with me—I submit—I close with-] {+I understand+} you, [- {+relentless ¶ Y+} -]
BB p197	3181	These little shreds shall, indeed, stand [- {+better than +} -] for all.
BB p197	3182	(Thus I [-cry-] {+cried+} , while the least wave [- {+has+} -] obliterated all my poems,
BB p197	3183	And the [-hoars-] lowest [-and hoarsest-] rustling of water and sand [-is-] {+proved+} {+a rhythm{+s+} [- and -]+} incomparable.)
BB p197	3184	[-You friable shore, with trails of debris!-]
BB p197	3185	You fish-shaped island! I take what is underfoot;
BB p197	3186	What is yours is mine, my father.
BB p197	3187	I too Paumanok,
BB p197	3188	< [-I too-] > have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been wash [-ed-] {+t+} on your shores;
BB p198	3189	[-I too-] {+coming with+} [-am but a trail of drift and debris,-]
BB p198	3190	[-< [-I too-] > < [-l-] > [- {+L+} -] eave little wrecks upon you, you fish-shaped island. -]
BB p198	3191	[- {+O+} -] I throw myself upon your breast, my father,
BB p198	3192	I cling to you so that you cannot unloose me,
BB p198	3193	I hold you so firm, till you answer me something.
BB p198	3194	Kiss me, my father,
BB p198	3195	Touch me with your lips, as I touch those I love,
BB p198	3196	Breathe to me, while I hold you close, the secret of the [-wondrous-] murmuring I envy,
BB p198	3197	For I fear I shall become crazed, if I cannot emulate it, {+¶+}and utter myself as well as it[-.-] {+utters itself.+}
BB p198	3198	Sea-raff! Crook-tongued waves!
BB p198	3199	[-O, I < [-will-] > [- {+think I shall+} -] yet sing, some day, what-] {+O give me to sing at least the song+} you have said to me.
BB p198	3200	Ebb, ocean of life, (the flow will return,)
BB p198	3201	< [-Cease not-] > [- {+Continue+} -] your moaning, you fierce old mother,
BB p198	3202	Endlessly cry for your castaways—but fear not, deny not me,
BB p198	3203	[- {+Nor+} -] Rustle < [-not up-] > so hoarse and angry against my feet, as I touch you, or gather from you.
BB p198	3204	< [-I mean tenderly by you,-] > [- {+ I do not [- -] {+seek+} to emulate you +} -]
BB p198	3205	I {+but+} gather for myself, and for this phantom, looking down where we lead, {+¶+} [-and-] {+This phantom, this moment+} following me and mine.
BB p198	3206	Me and mine!
BB p198	3207	We, loose winrows, little corpses,
BB p198	3208	Froth, snowy white, and bubbles,
BB p199	3209	(See! from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last!
BB p199	3210	See—the prismatic colors, glistening and rolling!)
BB p199	3211	Tufts of straw, sands, fragments,
BB p199	3212	Buoyed hither from many moods, one contradicting another,
BB p199	3213	From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell,
BB p199	3214	Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil,
BB p199	3215	Up just as much out of fathomless workings fer- mented and thrown,
BB p199	3216	A limp blossom or two, [-torn,-] just as much over waves floating, drifted at random,
BB p199	3217	Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature,
BB p199	3218	Just as much, whence we come, that blare of the cloud-trumpets;
BB p199	3219	We, capricious, brought hither, we know not whence, {+¶+} [-s-] {+S+} pread out before [- {+ +} -] You, up there, walking or sitting,
BB p199	3220	Whoever you are—we too lie in drifts at your feet.
BB p199	3221	GREAT are the myths—I too delight in them,
BB p199	3222	Great are Adam and Eve—I too look back and accept them,
BB p199	3223	Great the risen and fallen nations, and their poets, women, sages, inventors, rulers, warriors, and priests.
BB p200	3224	Great is Liberty! great is Equality! I am their fol- lower,
BB p200	3225	Helmsmen of nations, choose your craft! where you sail, I sail, [- {+t [- {+win or lose,+} -] you+} -] {+¶ I weather it out with you, or sink with you.+}
BB p200	3226	[-Yours is the muscle of life [-or-] death—yours is the perfect science—in you I have absolute faith. -]
BB p200	3227	Great is To-day, and beautiful,
BB p200	3228	It is good to live in this age—there never was any better.
BB p200	3229	Great are the plunges, throes, triumphs, downfalls of Democracy, {+ (have you thought it would not rise again? have you thought it was not provided for in the essence of things?) +}
BB p200	3230	Great the reformers, with their lapses and screams,
BB p200	3231	Great the daring and venture of [-sailors, on-] new ex- plorations.
BB p200	3232	Great are Yourself and Myself,
BB p200	3233	We are just as good and bad as the oldest and young- est or any,
BB p200	3234	What the best and worst did, we could do,
BB p200	3235	What they felt, do not we feel it in ourselves?
BB p200	3236	What they wished, do we not wish the same?
BB p200	3237	Great is Youth{+,+} [-—-] {+yet+} equally great [-is-] Old Age—great are the Day and Night,
BB p200	3238	Great is Wealth [-—-] {+,+} great is Poverty [-—-] {+,+} great is Ex- pression [-—-] {+,+} great is Silence.
BB p200	3239	Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination,
BB p200	3240	Do you {+not+} know that Old Age may come after you, with [-equal-] {+superior+} grace, force, fascination?
BB p201	3241	Day, full-blown and splendid—Day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter,
BB p201	3242	The Night follows close, with millions of suns, and sleep, and restoring darkness.
BB p201	3243	Wealth with the flush hand, fine clothes, hospitality [-,-] {+;+}
BB p201	3244	{+Ah, yes—+}But then the Soul's wealth, which is candor, knowl- edge, pride, enfolding love;
BB p201	3245	(Who goes for men and women showing Poverty richer than wealth?)
BB p201	3246	Expression of speech! in what is written or said, for- get not that Silence is also expressive,
BB p201	3247	That anguish as hot as the hottest, and contempt as cold as the coldest, may be without words,
BB p201	3248	That the true adoration is likewise without words, and without kneeling.
BB p201	3249	Great is the greatest Nation [-—-] {+¶ Room, O Earth!+} the nation of clusters of equal nations[-.-] {+advances!+}
BB p201	3250	Great is the Earth, and the way it became what it is;
BB p201	3251	Do you imagine it is stopped at this? the increase abandoned?
BB p201	3252	Understand then that it goes as far onward from this, [- {+¶+} -] as this [-is-] from the times [- {+¶+} -] when it lay in covering waters and gases, before man had ap- peared.
BB p201	3253	Great is the quality of Truth in man,
BB p201	3254	The quality of truth in man supports itself through all changes,
BB p202	3255	It is inevitably in the man—he and it are in love, and never leave each other.
BB p202	3256	The truth in man is no dictum, it is vital as eye- sight,
BB p202	3257	If there be any Soul, there is truth[-—if there be man or woman [-,-] {+at all,+} there is truth—if there be physical or moral, there is truth, -]
BB p202	3258	If there be equilibrium or volition, there is truth— if there be things at all upon the earth, there is truth.
BB p202	3259	O truth of the earth! O truth of things! I am de- termined to press my way toward you,
BB p202	3260	Sound your voice! I scale mountains, or dive in the sea after you.
BB p202	3261	{+Yet+} Great is Language—it is the mightiest of the sci- ences,
BB p202	3262	It is the fulness, color, form, diversity of the earth, and of men and women, and of all qualities and processes,
BB p202	3263	It is greater than wealth—it is greater than build- ings, ships, religions, paintings, music.
BB p202	3264	Great is the English speech—what speech is so great as the English?
BB p202	3265	Great is the English brood—what brood has so vast a destiny as the English?
BB p202	3266	It is the mother of the brood that must rule the earth with the new rule,
BB p202	3267	The new rule shall rule as the Soul rules, and as the love, justice, equality in the Soul, rule.
BB p203	3268	Great is Law—great are the old few landmarks of the law,
BB p203	3269	They are the same in all times, and shall not be disturbed.
BB p203	3270	Great are commerce, newspapers, books, free-trade, railroads, steamers, international mails, tele- graphs, exchanges.
BB p203	3271	Great is Justice!
BB p203	3272	Justice is not settled by legislators and laws—it is in the Soul,
BB p203	3273	It cannot be varied by statues, any more than love, pride, the attraction of gravity, can,
BB p203	3274	It is immutable—it does not depend on majorities[-—-] {+¶+} majorities or what not [- {+¶+} -] come at last before the same passionless and exact tribunal.
BB p203	3275	For justice are the grand natural lawyers and perfect judges—it is in their Souls,
BB p203	3276	It is well assorted—they have not studied for noth- ing —the great includes the less,
BB p203	3277	They rule on the highest grounds—they oversee all eras, states, administrations.
BB p203	3278	The perfect judge fears nothing—he could go front to front before God,
BB p203	3279	Before the perfect judge all shall stand back—[-life and death shall stand back-]—heaven and hell shall stand back.
BB p203	3280	Great is Goodness [-!-] {+;+}
BB p203	3281	I do not know what it is, any more than I know what health is—but I know it is great.
BB p204	3282	Great is Wickedness—I find I often admire it, just as much as I admire goodness,
BB p204	3283	Do you call that a paradox? It certainly is a paradox.
BB p204	3284	The eternal equilibrium of things is great, and the eternal overthrow of things is great,
BB p204	3285	And there is another paradox.
BB p204	3286	Great is Life, real and mystical, wherever and whoever,
BB p204	3287	Great is Death—sure as Life holds all parts together, Death holds all parts together,
BB p204	3288	Has Life much purport? ah Death also has much purport.
BB p204	3289	[-Death has {+surely+} just as much purport as Life{+.+} [-has,-]-]
BB p204	3290	Do you enjoy what Life confers? [-you shall-] [- {+ do you know you shall more+} -] {+O you [-may-] ? {+will+} still more+} enjoy what Death confers,
BB p204	3291	I do not understand the realities of Death, but I know they are great,
BB p204	3292	I do not understand the least reality of Life—how then can I understand the realities of Death?
BB p204	3293	Now list to my morning's romanza,
BB p204	3294	To the cities & farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before me
BB p204	3295	Come list to my morning's romanza,
BB p204	3296	[- {+List+} -] [- {+How+} -] A YOUNG man [-came-] {+comes+} to me [-with-] {+bearing+} a message from his brother,
BB p204	3297	How should the young man know the whether and when of his brother?
BB p204	3298	Tell him to send me the signs.
BB p204	3299	And I [-stood-] {+stand+} before the young man face to face, {+¶+} and [-took-] {+take+} his right hand in my left hand, and his left hand in my right hand,
BB p205	3300	And I answer[-ed-] for his brother, and for men, {+¶+} and I answer[-ed-] for THE POET, and sen [-t-] {+d+} these signs.
BB p205	3301	Him all wait for—him all yield up to—his word is decisive and final,
BB p205	3302	Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive them- selves, as amid light,
BB p205	3303	Him they immerse, and he immerses them.
BB p205	3304	Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people, animals,
BB p205	3305	The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean, {+(so tell I my morning's romanza,)+}
BB p205	3306	All enjoyments and properties, and money, and what- ever money will buy,
BB p205	3307	The best farms—others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps,
BB p205	3308	The noblest and costliest cities—others grading and building, and he domiciles there,
BB p205	3309	Nothing for any one, but what is for him—near and far are for him,
BB p205	3310	The ships in the offing [-—-] {+¶+} the perpetual shows and marches on land, are for him, if they are for any body.
BB p205	3311	He puts things in their attitudes,
BB p205	3312	He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love,
BB p205	3313	He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, {+¶+}brothers and sisters, associations, employment, politics, {+¶+}so that the rest never shame them after- ward, nor assume to command them.
BB p206	3314	He is the answerer,
BB p206	3315	What can be answered he answers—and what cannot be answered, he shows how it cannot be answered.
BB p206	3316	A man is a summons and challenge;
BB p206	3317	(It is vain to skulk—Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical echoes?)
BB p206	3318	Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, {+¶+}action, pleas- ure, pride, beat up and down, seeking to give satisfaction,
BB p206	3319	He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also.
BB p206	3320	Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, {+¶+} he may go freshly and gently and safely, by day or by night,
BB p206	3321	He has the pass-key of hearts—to him the response of the prying of hands on the knobs.
BB p206	3322	His welcome is universal—the flow of beauty is not more welcome or universal than he is,
BB p206	3323	The person he favors by day or sleeps with at night is blessed.
BB p206	3324	Every existence has its idiom—everything has an idiom and tongue,
BB p206	3325	He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men, {+¶+} and any man translates, and any man translates himself also,
BB p206	3326	One part does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they join.
BB p206	3327	He says indifferently and alike, How are you, friend? to the President at his levee,
BB p207	3328	And he says, Good-day, my brother! to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-field,
BB p207	3329	And both understand him, and know that his speech is right.
BB p207	3330	He walks with perfect ease in the capitol,
BB p207	3331	He walks among [-the-] Congress, and one representative says to another, Here is our equal, appearing and new.
BB p207	3332	Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,
BB p207	3333	And the soldiers suppose him to be a captain, and the sailors that he has followed the sea,
BB p207	3334	And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an artist,
BB p207	3335	And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them,
BB p207	3336	No matter what the work is, that he is the one to fol- low it, or has followed it,
BB p207	3337	No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and sisters there.
BB p207	3338	The English believe he comes of their English stock,
BB p207	3339	A Jew to the Jew he seems—a Russ to the Russ— usual and near, removed from none.
BB p207	3340	Whoever he looks at in the traveller's coffee-house claims him,
BB p207	3341	The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure;
BB p207	3342	The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the Mississippi, or St. Lawrence, or Sacramento, or Hudson, or Paumanok Sound, claims him.
BB p208	3343	The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his per- fect blood,
BB p208	3344	The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see themselves in the ways of him—he strangely transmutes them,
BB p208	3345	They are not vile any more—they hardly know them- selves, they are so grown.
BB p208	3346	Do you think it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses?
BB p208	3347	Well, it would be good to be the writer of melodious verses;
BB p208	3348	[-But-] {+(Then finally+} what are verses beyond the flowing character you could have? {+¶+} or beyond beautiful manners and behavior?
BB p208	3349	Or beyond one manly or affectionate deed of an ap- prentice-boy? or old woman? {+¶+} or man that has been in prison, or is likely to be in prison?{+)+}
BB p208	3350	{+you,+}
BB p208	3351	SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest,
BB p208	3352	I withdraw from the still woods I loved,
BB p208	3353	I will not go now on the pastures to walk,
BB p208	3354	I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea,
BB p208	3355	I will not touch my flesh to < [-the earth,-] > [- {+yours,+} -] [- {+you,+} -] as to other flesh, to renew me.
BB p209	3356	[-O Earth!-]
BB p209	3357	< [-O-] > how can the ground {+[-of you-]—how can the forests+} [-of you-] not sicken?
BB p209	3358	How can you be alive, you growths of spring?
BB p209	3359	How can you furnish health, you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
BB p209	3360	Are they not continually putting distempered corpses in you?
BB p209	3361	Is not every continent worked over and over with sour dead?
BB p209	3362	Where have you disposed of [-those-] [- {+their+} -] {+their+} carcasses [- {+—+} -] {+?+} [-of the-] {+¶+} [- {+T+} -] {+Those+} <drunkards and gluttons of> so many generations?
BB p209	3363	Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat?
BB p209	3364	I do not see any of it upon you to-day—or perhaps I am deceived,
BB p209	3365	I will run a furrow with my plough—I will press my spade through the sod, and turn it up un- derneath,
BB p209	3366	I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat.
BB p209	3367	< [-Behold!-] > {+ This compost! behold it well!+}
BB p209	3368	[-This is the compost of billions of premature corpses [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p209	3369	Perhaps every mite [-has-] once formed part of a sick person—Yet behold!
BB p209	3370	The grass covers the prairies,
BB p209	3371	The bean bursts noiselessly through the mould in the garden,
BB p209	3372	The delicate spear of the onion pierces upward,
BB p209	3373	The apple-buds cluster together on the apple-branches,
BB p209	3374	The resurrection of the wheat appears with pale visage out of its graves,
BB p209	3375	The tinge awakes over the willow-tree and the mul- berry-tree,
BB p210	3376	The he-birds carol mornings and evenings, while the she-birds sit on their nests,
BB p210	3377	The young of poultry break through the hatched eggs,
BB p210	3378	The new-born of animals appear—the calf is dropt from the cow, the colt from the mare,
BB p210	3379	Out of its little hill faithfully rise the potato's dark green leaves,
BB p210	3380	Out of its hill rises the yellow maize-stalk;
BB p210	3381	The summer growth is innocent and disdainful above all those strata of sour dead.
BB p210	3382	What chemistry!
BB p210	3383	That the winds are really not infectious,
BB p210	3384	That this is no cheat, this transparent green-wash of the sea, which is so amorous after me,
BB p210	3385	That it is safe to allow it to lick my naked body all over with its tongues,
BB p210	3386	That it will not endanger me with the fevers that have deposited themselves in it,
BB p210	3387	That all is clean, forever and forever,
BB p210	3388	That the cool drink from the well tastes so good,
BB p210	3389	That blackberries are so flavorous and juicy,
BB p210	3390	That the fruits of the apple-orchard, and of the orange-orchard [-—-] {+¶+} that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them poison me,
BB p210	3391	That when I recline on the grass I do not catch any disease,
BB p210	3392	Though probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease.
BB p210	3393	Now I am terrified at the Earth! it is that calm and patient,
BB p210	3394	It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions,
BB p211	3395	It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseased corpses,
BB p211	3396	It distils such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor,
BB p211	3397	It renews, with such unwitting looks, its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops,
BB p211	3398	It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
BB p211	3399	[-[- {+For+} -] < [-ALL-] > [- {+whole+} -] day I have walked the city, and talked with my friends, and thought of prudence, -]
BB p211	3400	[- {+I thought of+} -] [-Of-] [- {+On+} -] {+On+} time, space, reality— [-of-] {+on+} such as these, and abreast with them, {+prudence+}.
BB p211	3401	After all, the last explanation remains to be made about prudence,
BB p211	3402	Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
BB p211	3403	The Soul is of itself,
BB p211	3404	All [- {+else+} -] verges to it—all has reference to what ensues,
BB p211	3405	All that a person does, says, thinks, is of conse- quence,
BB p211	3406	Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, {+¶+} any part of the direct life-time, or the hour of death, {+¶+} but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect life-time.
BB p212	3407	The indirect is [-more than-] {+just as much as [-t-]+} the direct,
BB p212	3408	The spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.
BB p212	3409	Not one word or deed [-—-] {+¶+} not venereal sore, discolor- ation, privacy of the onanist, {+¶+}putridity of gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, {+¶+}cunning, betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution, {+¶+}but has results beyond death, as really as before death.
BB p212	3410	Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.
BB p212	3411	No specification is necessary [-—-] {+¶+} all that a male or female does, that is vigorous, benevolent, clean, {+¶+}is so much profit to him or her, in the unshakable order of the universe, {+¶+}and through the whole scope of it forever.
BB p212	3412	Who has been wise, receives interest,
BB p212	3413	Savage, felon, President, judge, farmer, sailor, me- chanic, {+literat+} young, old, it is the same,
BB p212	3414	The interest will come round—all will come round.
BB p212	3415	Singly, wholly, to affect now, affected their time, will forever affect, {+¶+}all of the past, and all of the present, and all of the future,
BB p212	3416	All the brave actions of war and peace,
BB p212	3417	All help given to relatives, strangers, the poor, old, sorrowful, {+¶+}young children, widows, the sick, and to shunned persons,
BB p212	3418	All furtherance of fugitives, and of the escape of slaves,
BB p213	3419	All [- {+that superb+} -] self-denial that stood steady and aloof on wrecks, and saw others fill the seats of the boats,
BB p213	3420	All offering of substance or life for the good old cause, or for a friend's sake, or opinion's sake,
BB p213	3421	All pains of enthusiasts, scoffed at by their neighbors,
BB p213	3422	All the limitless sweet love and precious suffering of mothers,
BB p213	3423	All honest men baffled in strifes recorded or unre- corded,
BB p213	3424	All the grandeur and good of ancient nations whose fragments we inherit,
BB p213	3425	All the good of the hundreds of ancient nations un- known to us by name, {+or+} date, {+or+} < [-location,-] >
BB p213	3426	All that was ever manfully begun, {+indifferent+} whether it suc- ceeded or no,
BB p213	3427	All suggestions of the divine mind of man, or the divinity of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands;
BB p213	3428	All that is well thought or said this day on any part of the globe—or on any of the wandering stars, {+¶+}or on any of the fixed stars, by those there as we are here,
BB p213	3429	All that is henceforth to be thought or done by you, whoever you are, or by any one,
BB p213	3430	These inure, have inured, shall inure, to the identities from which they sprang, or shall spring.
BB p213	3431	Did you guess {+they or+} anything lived only its moment?
BB p213	3432	The world does not so exist—no parts palpable or impalpable so exist,
BB p213	3433	No consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation—and that from some other,
BB p214	3434	Without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
BB p214	3435	Whatever satisfies Souls is true,
BB p214	3436	Prudence entirely satisfies the craving and glut of Souls,
BB p214	3437	Itself {+only perhaps+} finally satisfies the Soul,
BB p214	3438	The Soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson but its own.
BB p214	3439	[-Now-] {+Shall+} I give you an inkling [-,-] {+?+}
BB p214	3440	[-Now-] {+Shall+} I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time, space, reality [-,-] {+?+}
BB p214	3441	That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own [-,-] {+?+}
BB p214	3442	What is prudence, is indivisible,
BB p214	3443	Declines to separate one part of life from every part,
BB p214	3444	Divides not the righteous from the unrighteous, or the living from the dead,
BB p214	3445	Matches every thought or act by its correlative,
BB p214	3446	Knows no possible forgiveness or deputed atonement,
BB p214	3447	Knows that the young man who composedly perilled his life and lost it, has done exceeding well for himself, without doubt,
BB p214	3448	That he who never perilled his life, but retains it to old age in riches and ease, has probably achieved nothing for himself worth mentioning;
BB p214	3449	Knows that only [-the-] {+that+} person has really learned, who has learned to prefer results,
BB p214	3450	Who favors body and Soul the same,
BB p214	3451	Who perceives the indirect assuredly following the direct,
BB p214	3452	Who in his spirit in any emergency whatever neither hurries < [-or avoids-] > death[- {+or avoids it.+} -].
BB p215	3453	[-PERFECT sanity shows the master among philosophs,-]
BB p215	3454	Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts,
BB p215	3455	What always indicates the poet, is the crowd of the pleasant company [-of singers,-] and their words,
BB p215	3456	The words of the [-singers-] {+pleasant company+} are the [-hours or-] minutes of the light or dark—but the words of the maker of poems are the general light and dark,
BB p215	3457	The maker of poems settles justice, reality, immor- tality,
BB p215	3458	His insight and power encircle things and the human race,
BB p215	3459	He is the glory and extract[-, thus far,-] of things, and of the human race.
BB p215	3460	His words are the tufts & final applause of science.
BB p215	3461	The singers [- do not beget—only THE POETbegets,-]
BB p215	3462	The singers are welcomed, understood, appear often enough [-—-] {+¶+} but rare has the day been, likewise the spot, of the birth of the maker of poems,
BB p215	3463	Not every century, or every five centuries, has con- tained such a day, for all its names.
BB p215	3464	The singers of successive hours of centuries may have ostensible names, but the name of each of them is one of the singers,
BB p215	3465	The name of each is, a heart-singer, eye-singer, [-hymn- singer, law-singer,-] ear-singer, [-head-singer, sweet- singer, wise-singer,-] droll-singer, thrift-singer, [-sea- singer,-] wit-singer, [-echo-singer, parlor-singer, love- singer, passion-singer, mystic-singer, fable-singer, item-singer, weeping-singer,-] or something else.
BB p216	3466	All this time, and at all times, wait the words of poems;
BB p216	3467	The greatness of sons is the exuding of the greatness of mothers and fathers,
BB p216	3468	[-The words of poems are the tuft and final applause of science. -]
BB p216	3469	Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health, {+¶+}rudeness of body, withdrawnness, gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness [-—-] {+¶+} [-such are some of the words of poems. -]
BB p216	3470	The sailor and traveller underlie the maker of poems,
BB p216	3471	The builder, geometer, [-mathematician, astronomer,-] melodist, chemist, anatomist, spiritualist, [-lan- guage-searcher, geologist, phrenologist, artist—-] {+¶+}all these underlie the maker of poems.
BB p216	3472	As a lay with my headin the lap of a comrade, tired of reading the poems
BB p216	3473	The words of poems give you more than poems,
BB p216	3474	They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, {+¶+}behavior, histories, essays, romances, and everything else [-,-] {+;+}
BB p216	3475	They balance ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,
BB p216	3476	They do not seek beauty—they are sought,
BB p216	3477	Forever touching them, or close upon them, follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick.
BB p216	3478	They prepare for death—yet are they not the finish, but rather the outset,
BB p216	3479	They bring none to his or her terminus, or to be con- tent and full;
BB p217	3480	Whom they take, they take into space, to behold the birth of stars, [-to learn one of the meanings,-]
BB p217	3481	To launch off with absolute faith—to sweep through the ceaseless rings, and never be quiet again.
BB p217	3482	< [-I NEED no assurances-] > [- {+Assurances I need them not+} -] {+!+} [-—-] {+¶+} {+(+}I am a man who is pre- occupied, of his own Soul;{+)+}
BB p217	3483	I do not doubt that whatever I know at a given time, [- {+ [-the best-] [- {+better+} -] {+the best+} +} -]< [- [-there-] {+The best+} there waits for me{+,+} [-more,-]-] > < [-which I do not know;-] >
BB p217	3484	I do not doubt that from under < [-the-] > [- {+my very+} -] feet, and beside the hands and face I am cognizant of, {+¶+}are now looking faces I am not cognizant of—calm and actual faces;
BB p217	3485	I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world;
BB p217	3486	[-I do not doubt there are realizations I have no idea of, waiting for me through time, and through the universes—also upon this earth; -]
BB p217	3487	I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are limitless—{+(+}in vain I try to think how limitless;{+)+}
BB p217	3488	I 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;
BB p217	3489	I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse, than I have supposed;
BB p218	3490	I do not doubt there is more in myself than I have supposed [-—-] {+¶+} and more in all men and women— and more in my poems than I have supposed;
BB p218	3491	I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on, millions of years;
BB p218	3492	I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, [- {+¶+} -]and exteriors have their exteriors [-—-] {+¶+} and that the eye-sight has another eye-sight,[- {+¶+} -] and the hearing another hearing, and the voice another voice;
BB p218	3493	I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young men < [-are provided for-] > {+and turn out better than we know,+} [-—-] {+¶+} and that the deaths of young women, and the deaths of little children, are provided for;
BB p218	3494	I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the horrors of them < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] no matter whose wife, child, husband, father, lover, has gone down [-—-] {+¶+} are pro- vided for, to the minutest point;
BB p218	3495	I do not doubt that shallowness, meanness, malig- nance, are provided for;
BB p218	3496	I do not doubt that cities, you, America, the re- mainder of the earth, {+¶+}politics, freedom, degra- dations, are carefully provided for;
BB p218	3497	I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen, any where, at any time, [- {+¶+} -]is provided for, in the inherences of things.
BB p219	3498	WHAT shall I give? and which are my miracles?
BB p219	3499	Realism is mine—my miracles—Take freely,
BB p219	3500	Take without end—I offer them to you wherever your feet can carry you, or your eyes reach.
BB p219	3501	Why! who makes much of [-a-] miracle[-?-]{+s?+} [- {+ +} -]
BB p219	3502	As to me, I know of nothing else but < [-miracles-] > [- {+them+} -] ,
BB p219	3503	Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
BB p219	3504	Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
BB p219	3505	Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water,
BB p219	3506	Or stand under trees in the woods,
BB p219	3507	Or talk by day with any one I love—or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love,
BB p219	3508	Or sit at the table at dinner with my mother,
BB p219	3509	Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
BB p219	3510	Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive, of a sum- mer forenoon,
BB p219	3511	Or animals feeding in the fields,
BB p219	3512	Or birds—or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
BB p219	3513	Or the wonderfulness of the sun-down—or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
BB p219	3514	Or the exquisite, delicate, thin curve of the new-moon in spring;
BB p219	3515	[-Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best—mechanics, boatmen, farmers, -]
BB p220	3516	[-Or among the savans—or to the soiree—or to the opera, -]
BB p220	3517	Or stand a long while looking at the movements of machinery,
BB p220	3518	Or behold children at their sports,
BB p220	3519	Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man, or the perfect old woman,
BB p220	3520	Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial,
BB p220	3521	Or my own eyes and figure in the glass,
BB p220	3522	These, [-with the rest-] {+indifferent+} , one and all, are to me {+miracles+},
BB p220	3523	The whole referring—yet each distinct and in its place.
BB p220	3524	To me, every hour of the light and dark is miracle,
BB p220	3525	Every inch of space is a miracle,
BB p220	3526	Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same,
BB p220	3527	Every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same;
BB p220	3528	Every spear of grass—the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them,
BB p220	3529	All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.
BB p220	3530	To me the sea is a continual miracle,
BB p220	3531	The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships, with men in them,
BB p220	3532	What stranger miracles are there?
BB p221	3533	THERE was a child went forth every day,
BB p221	3534	And the first object he looked upon [-and received with wonder, pity, love, or dread,-] that object he became,
BB p221	3535	And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, {+¶+}or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.
BB p221	3536	The early lilacs became part of this child,
BB p221	3537	And grass, and white and red morning-glories, {+¶+}and white and red clover, and the song of the phœbe- bird,
BB p221	3538	And the Third Month lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf,
BB p221	3539	And the noisy brood of the barn-yard, or by the mire of the pond-side,
BB p221	3540	And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there—and the beautiful curious liquid,
BB p221	3541	And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads— all became part of him.
BB p221	3542	The field-sprouts of Fourth Month and Fifth Month became part of him,
BB p221	3543	Winter-grain sprouts, and those of the light-yellow corn, and the esculent roots of the garden,
BB p221	3544	And the apple-trees covered with blossoms, and the fruit afterward, {+¶+} and wood-berries, and the com- monest weeds by the road;
BB p222	3545	And the old drunkard staggering home from the out- house of the tavern, whence he had lately risen,
BB p222	3546	And the school-mistress that passed on her way to the school,
BB p222	3547	And the friendly boys that passed—and the quarrel- some boys,
BB p222	3548	And the tidy and fresh-cheeked girls—and the bare- foot negro boy and girl,
BB p222	3549	And all the changes of city and country, wherever he went.
BB p222	3550	His own parents,
BB p222	3551	< [-He that had father [-e-] {+'+} d him, and she that conceived him in her womb, and birth [-e-] {+'+} d him, -] >
BB p222	3552	They gave this child more of themselves than that,
BB p222	3553	They gave him afterward every day—they [-and of them-] became part of him.
BB p222	3554	The mother at home, quietly placing the dishes on the supper-table,
BB p222	3555	The mother with mild words—clean her cap and gown, {+¶+}a wholesome odor falling off her person and clothes as she walks by;
BB p222	3556	The father, strong, self-sufficient, manly, mean, an- gered, unjust,
BB p222	3557	The blow, the quick loud word, the tight bargain, the crafty lure[-,-][- {+—+} -] {+(the mixture, fused)+}
BB p222	3558	The family usages, the language, the company, the furniture—the yearning and swelling heart,
BB p222	3559	Affection that will not be gainsayed—the sense of what is real—the thought if, after all, it should prove unreal,
BB p222	3560	The doubts of day-time and the doubts of night-time— the curious whether and how, {+( [-your-] {+the+} growing soul's first wonder,)+}
BB p223	3561	Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?
BB p223	3562	Men and women crowding fast in the streets—if they are not flashes and specks, what are they?
BB p223	3563	The streets themselves, and the façades of houses, and goods in the windows,
BB p223	3564	Vehicles, teams, the heavy-planked wharves—the huge crossing at the ferries,
BB p223	3565	The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset— the river between,
BB p223	3566	Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white or brown, three miles off,
BB p223	3567	The schooner near by, sleepily dropping down the tide—the little boat slack-towed astern,
BB p223	3568	The hurrying tumbling waves, quick-broken crests, slapping,
BB p223	3569	The strata of colored clouds [-, the-] [- {+and+} -] {+— that+} the long bar of maroon- tint, away solitary by itself—the spread of purity it lies motionless in,
BB p223	3570	The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud;
BB p223	3571	[-These-] {+Such+} became part of that child who went forth every day, {+¶+}and who now goes, and will always go forth every day,
BB p223	3572	[-And [-these-] {+such+} become part of him or her that peruses [-them here.-] {+[-in-] this chant.+} -]
BB p224	3573	[-IT is ended—-] [-I [- {+will+} -] dally no more,-] [- {+;+} -] [- {+ +} -]
BB p224	3574	[-After to-day I inure myself to run, leap, swim, wrestle, {+&+} fight, -]
BB p224	3575	To stand the cold or heat—to take good aim with a gun [-—-] {+¶+} to sail a boat—to manage horses—to beget superb children,
BB p224	3576	To speak readily and clearly—to feel at home among common people,
BB p224	3577	And to hold [-my-] {+our+} own in terrible positions, on land and sea.
BB p224	3578	Not for [-an-] embroiderer{+s+},
BB p224	3579	(There will always be plenty of embroiderers—I welcome them also;)
BB p224	3580	But for the fibre of things, and for inherent men and women.
BB p224	3581	Not to chisel ornaments,
BB p224	3582	But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous Supreme Gods, {+¶+}that The States may realize them, walking and talking.
BB p224	3583	[- {+(+} -]Let me have my own way,
BB p224	3584	Let others promulge the laws—I will make no ac- count of the laws,
BB p224	3585	Let others [-praise eminent men and-] hold up peace— I hold up agitation and conflict,
BB p224	3586	I praise [-no{+t+} eminent man-] {+few+} —I rebuke to his face the one that was thought most worthy.[- {+(+} -]
BB p225	3587	(Who are you? you mean devil!{+—+} [-A-] {+a+} nd what are you secretly guilty of, all your life?
BB p225	3588	Will you turn aside all your life? Will you grub and chatter all your life?)
BB p225	3589	([-And-] [-w-] {+W+} ho {+after all+} are you—blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
BB p225	3590	Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak a single word?)
BB p225	3591	Let others finish specimens—I never finish specimens,
BB p225	3592	I shower them by exhaustless laws, as nature does, fresh and modern continually.
BB p225	3593	I give nothing as duties,
BB p225	3594	What others give as duties, I give as living impulses;
BB p225	3595	(Shall I give the heart's action as a duty?)
BB p225	3596	Let others dispose of questions—I dispose of noth- ing—I arouse unanswerable questions;
BB p225	3597	Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
BB p225	3598	What about these likes of myself, that draw me so close by tender directions and indirections?
BB p225	3599	[-Let others deny the evil their enemies charge against them—but how can I the like? -]
BB p225	3600	[-Nothing ever has been, or ever can be, charged against me, half as bad as the evil I really am; -]
BB p225	3601	[-I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies—as I my- self do; -]
BB p225	3602	I charge you, {+ [-my-] {+dear+} comrades & children+} [-too,-] forever, {+¶+}reject those who would expound me—for I cannot expound myself,
BB p226	3603	I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
BB p226	3604	I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.
BB p226	3605	After me, vista!
BB p226	3606	O, I see life is not short, but immeasurably long,
BB p226	3607	I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a gymnast, a steady grower,
BB p226	3608	Every hour the semen of centuries—and still of cen- turies.
BB p226	3609	I will follow up these continual lessons of the air, water, earth,
BB p226	3610	I perceive I have no time to lose.
BB p226	3611	WHO [-learns-] {+wishes to learn+} my lesson {+?+}[-complete?-]
BB p226	3612	Boss, journeyman, apprentice—churchman and athe- ist,
BB p226	3613	The stupid and the wise thinker—parents and off- spring—merchant, clerk, porter, and customer,
BB p226	3614	Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—Draw nigh and commence [-;-] {+.+} {+¶+}
BB p226	3615	It is no lesson — it lets down the bars to a good lesson,
BB p226	3616	And that to another, and every one to another still.
BB p226	3617	The great laws take and effuse without argument,
BB p226	3618	[-I am of the same style, for I am their friend,-]
BB p227	3619	[-I love them quits and quits—I do not halt and make salaams. -]
BB p227	3620	I lie abstracted, and hear beautiful tales of things, and the reasons of things,
BB p227	3621	They are so beautiful, I nudge myself to listen.
BB p227	3622	I cannot say to any person what I hear—I cannot say it to myself—it is very wonderful.
BB p227	3623	It is no small [-matter-] {+thing+} , this round and delicious globe, moving so exactly in its orbit forever and ever, {+¶+}without one jolt, or the untruth of a single second [-,-] {+.+}
BB p227	3624	I do not think [-it-] {+this globe+} was made in six days, nor in ten thousand years, nor ten billions of years,
BB p227	3625	Nor planned and built one thing after another, as an architect plans and builds a house.
BB p227	3626	I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman,
BB p227	3627	Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman,
BB p227	3628	Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.
BB p227	3629	Is it wonderful that I should be immortal? as every [-one-] {+thing+} is immortal,
BB p227	3630	I know it is wonderful—but my eye-sight is equally wonderful, {+¶+}[-and how I was conceived in my moth- er's womb is equally wonderful;-]
BB p228	3631	And how I was not palpable once, but am now [-—-] {+¶+} and was born on the last day of Fifth Month, in the Year 43 of America,
BB p228	3632	And passed from a babe, in the creeping trance of three summers and three winters, to articulate and walk [-—-] {+¶+} All this is equally wonderful.
BB p228	3633	And that I grew six feet high, {+¶+} and that I have become a man thirty-six years old in the Year 79 of America [-—-] {+¶+} and that I am here anyhow—are all equally wonderful.
BB p228	3634	And that my Soul embraces you {+here+} this hour, {+(as I walk [-here-] in the moonlight)+} {+¶+} and {+that+} we af- fect each other without ever seeing each other, and never perhaps to see each other, [- {+¶+} -]is every bit as wonderful.
BB p228	3635	And that I can think such thoughts as these, is just as wonderful,
BB p228	3636	And that I can remind you, [-and you-] {+to+} think them and know them to be true, is just as wonderful.
BB p228	3637	And that the moon spins round the earth, and on with the earth, is equally wonderful,
BB p228	3638	And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars, is equally wonderful.
BB p228	3639	Come! I should like to hear you tell me what there is in yourself that is not just as wonderful,
BB p228	3640	And I should like to hear [-the name-] of anything be- tween First Day morning and Seventh Day night that is not just as wonderful.
BB p229	3641	On the beach, at night, [-walking-] [- {+silent+} -] alone,
BB p229	3642	THIS night I am happy;
BB p229	3643	As I [-walk the beach-] {+pass[-'d-]+} where the {+fierce+} old mother sway < [-s-] > [- {+'d+} -] to and fro, singing her savage and husky song,
BB p229	3644	As I watch[- {+'d+} -] the stars shining—I < [-think-] > [- {+thought+} -] < [-a-] > [- {+the+} -] thought of the clef of the universes, {+¶+} and of the future {+{+& past & of+} all the things of the present and [-the-] {+of+} +}.
BB p229	3645	What {+(thought I,)+} can the future bring me more than I have?
BB p229	3646	Do [-you suppose-] I wish to enjoy life in other spheres?
BB p229	3647	[-I say distinctly-] {+Why+} I comprehend no better sphere than this earth,
BB p229	3648	I comprehend no better life than the life of my body.
BB p229	3649	I do not know what follows the death of my body,
BB p229	3650	But I know well that whatever it is, it is best for me,
BB p229	3651	And I know well that whatever is really Me shall live just as much as before.
BB p229	3652	I am not uneasy but I shall have good housing to myself,
BB p229	3653	But this is my first—how can I like the rest any better?
BB p229	3654	Here I grew up—the studs and rafters are grown parts of me.
BB p229	3655	I am not uneasy but I am to be beloved by young and old men, and to love them the same,
BB p230	3656	I suppose the pink nipples of the breasts of women with whom I shall sleep will touch the side of my face the same,
BB p230	3657	But this is the nipple of a breast of my mother, always near and always divine to me, her true child and son, whatever comes.
BB p230	3658	I [-suppose-] {+think+} I am to be eligible to visit the stars, in my time,
BB p230	3659	I [-suppose-] {+think+} I shall have myriads of new experiences— and that the experience of this earth will prove only one out of myriads;
BB p230	3660	But I believe my body and my Soul already indicate those experiences,
BB p230	3661	And I believe I shall find nothing in the stars more majestic and beautiful than I have already found on the earth,
BB p230	3662	And I believe I have this night a clew through the universes,
BB p230	3663	And I believe I have this night thought a thought of the clef of eternity.
BB p230	3664	A VAST SIMILITUDE interlocks all,
BB p230	3665	All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, comets, asteroids,
BB p230	3666	All the substances of the same, and all that is spiritual, upon the same,
BB p230	3667	All distances of place, however wide,
BB p230	3668	All distances of time—all inanimate forms,
BB p230	3669	All Souls—all living bodies, though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
BB p230	3670	All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes— the fishes, the brutes,
BB p231	3671	All men and women—me also, {+(for all this I enclose, and you do also,)+}
BB p231	3672	All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
BB p231	3673	All identities that have existed, or may exist, on this globe or any globe,
BB p231	3674	All lives and deaths—all of past, present, future,
BB p231	3675	This < [-vast-] > similitude spans them, and always has spanned, {+¶+}and shall forever span them, and compactly hold them.
BB p231	3676	Sprig of confession abject confession!
BB p231	3677	[-O-] [-B-] {+B+} ITTER sprig[-! Confession sprig!-] [- {+of con+} -]
BB p231	3678	[-In the bouquet-] [- {+In these leaves+} -] [-I give you place also-]—I bind you {+also+} [-in,-] {+in these leaves!+}
BB p231	3679	Proceeding no further till, humbled publicly,
BB p231	3680	I give fair warning, [- {+here &+} -] once for all.
BB p231	3681	I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a prevari- cator, greedy, derelict,
BB p231	3682	And I own that I remain so yet.
BB p231	3683	What foul thought but I think it{+?+} [-—or have in me the stuff out of which it is thought? -]
BB p231	3684	What in darkness in bed at night, alone or with a companion?
BB p231	3685	You felons on trials in courts,
BB p231	3686	You convicts in prison cells—you sentenced assas- sins, chain [-e-] {+'+} d and handcuff [-e-] {+'+} d with iron,
BB p232	3687	Who am I, that I am not on trial, or in prison?
BB p232	3688	Me, [-ruthless and devilish as any,-] that my wrists are not chained with iron, or my ankles with iron?
BB p232	3689	You prostitutes flaunting over the trottoirs, or obscene in your rooms,
BB p232	3690	Who am I, that I should call you more obscene than myself?
BB p232	3691	O culpable! O traitor!
BB p232	3692	O I acknowledge—I exposé!
BB p232	3693	(O admirers! praise not me! compliment not me! you make me wince,
BB p232	3694	I see what you do not—I know what you do not;)
BB p232	3695	Inside these breast-bones I lie smutch'd and choked,
BB p232	3696	Beneath this face that appears so impassive, hell's tides continually run,
BB p232	3697	Lusts and wickedness are acceptable to me,
BB p232	3698	I walk with delinquents with passionate love,
BB p232	3699	I feel I am of them—I belong to those convicts and prostitutes myself,
BB p232	3700	And henceforth I will not deny them—for how can I deny myself?
BB p233	3701	[-UNFOLDED-] out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, [-as-] [- {+and+} -] [-is always to come unfolded,-]
BB p233	3702	[-Unfolded only out of the superbest woman-] of the earth, is to come the superbest man of the earth,
BB p233	3703	Unfolded out of the friendliest woman, is to come the friendliest man,
BB p233	3704	Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman, can a man be formed of perfect body,
BB p233	3705	Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman, can come the poems of man—{+(+}only thence have my poems come,{+)+}
BB p233	3706	Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,
BB p233	3707	Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,
BB p233	3708	[-Unfolded-] out of the folds of the woman's brain, come all the folds of the man's brain, duly obedient,
BB p233	3709	[-Unfolded-] out of the justice of the woman, all {+the+} justice {+of man+} is unfolded,
BB p233	3710	[-Unfolded-] out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy;
BB p233	3711	{+—+}A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity [-—-] {+¶+} but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman [-,-] {+.+}
BB p233	3712	First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
BB p234	3713	[-The wearied emigrants sleep, {+wrapt in their blankets+}—-] [-t-] {+T+} he supper is [-of-] over—the fire on the ground burns low
BB p234	3714	The wearied immigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets
BB p234	3715	NIGHT on the Prairies;
BB p234	3716	I walk {+away+} by myself—I stand and look at the stars, which I think now I never realized before.
BB p234	3717	Now I absorb immortality and peace,
BB p234	3718	I admire death and test propositions.
BB p234	3719	How plenteous! How spiritual! How resumé!
BB p234	3720	The same Old Man and Soul—the same old aspi- rations, and the same content.
BB p234	3721	I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited,
BB p234	3722	I was thinking this globe enough, till there [-tumbled upon-] {+spring {+out+} so noiseless around+} me myriads of other globes.
BB p234	3723	Now [-while-] the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me, [-I will-] {+& I+} measure myself by them,
BB p234	3724	And now, touched with the lives of other globes, arrived as far along as those of the earth,
BB p234	3725	Or waiting to arrive, or passed on farther than those of the earth,
BB p234	3726	I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my own life,
BB p234	3727	Or the lives on the earth arrived as far as mine, or waiting to arrive.
BB p234	3728	[-O how-] {+How+} plainly I see now that life cannot exhibit all to me—as the day cannot,
BB p234	3729	[-O-] [- {+How+} -] [-I-] {+And+} see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
BB p235	3730	[-SEA-WATER, and all living below it,-] [- {+T+} -] [- {+ocean dense [-yet-] {+and+} all+} -] {+Atmosphere of ocean dense, & all within it,+}
BB p235	3731	Forests [- {+down+} -] at < [- the bottom of the sea-] > < [-—-] > [- {+with+} -] the branches and leaves,
BB p235	3732	Sea-lettuce, vast lichens, < [-strange flowers and seeds-] > < [-—-] > [- {+,+} -] [- {+¶+} -] < [-t-] > [- {+T+} -] he thick tangle, the openings, and the pink turf,
BB p235	3733	Different colors, pale gray and green, purple, white, and {+dingy transparent+} gold [-—-] {+¶+} the play of light through the water,
BB p235	3734	[-Dumb swimmers there among the rocks—-] {+the+} coral[-,-] {+and+} gluten, [-grass, rushes—and the aliment of the swimmers,-]
BB p235	3735	Sluggish existences {+down+} grazing there, suspended, or slowly crawling close to the bottom,
BB p235	3736	The sperm-whale at the surface, blowing air and spray, or disporting with his flukes,
BB p235	3737	The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard, and the sting-ray;
BB p235	3738	Passions there [-—-] {+,+} wars, pursuits, tribes—sight in those ocean-depths— < [-breathing-] > [- {+living+} -] that thick-breath- ing < [-air,-] > as so many do,
BB p235	3739	The change thence to the sight here, and to the subtle [- {+of+} -] < [-air breathed by-] > beings like [-us, who-] {+we are+} walk{+ing+} [- {+walking+} -] [- {+and breathe+} -] this sphere;
BB p235	3740	The change onward from ours to that of beings who < [-walk other-] > [- {+and subtler+} -] [- {+breathe the air of still subtler+} -] spheres.
BB p236	3741	[-I SIT-] {+As I sat+} and look{+'d+} out [-upon-] {+over+} all the {+world's+} sorrows [-of the world, and upon-] {+& [-at-]+} all oppression and shame,
BB p236	3742	I hear{+d+} secret convulsive sobs from young men, [-at anguish with themselves,-] remorseful after deeds done;
BB p236	3743	I [-see-] {+saw+} , in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate,
BB p236	3744	I [-see-] {+saw+} the wife misused by her husband—I [-see-] {+saw+} the treacherous seducer of the young woman,
BB p236	3745	I mark{+'d+} the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—[-I see these sights on the earth,-]
BB p236	3746	I [-see-] {+mark{+'d+}+} the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I [-see-] {+obvserve{+d+}+} martyrs and prisoners,
BB p236	3747	I observe{+d+} a famine at sea—[-I observe{+d+}-] the sailors cast[-ing-] lots who [-shall-] {+should+} be killed, to preserve the lives of the rest,
BB p236	3748	I observe{+d+} the slights and degradations cast by arro- gant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
BB p236	3749	All these—All the meanness{+es+} [-and-] {+the+} agony without end, I{+,+} sitting, look{+'d+} out upon,
BB p236	3750	[-See, hear, [-and am-] [- {+—yet remain+} -] silent.-] {+Saw, heard, & remained silent+}
BB p237	3751	As I with in the lap of a comrade
BB p237	3752	As I lay on my breast in the shade a-dreaming,
BB p237	3753	As I lay with closed eyes I pondered on truth & {+on+} perfect returns
BB p237	3754	As I lay on my breast in the shade a-dreaming,
BB p237	3755	As with closed eyes I ponder'd on truth & on perfect returns,
BB p237	3756	Sportions denying
BB p237	3757	[-O ME, man of slack faith so long!-]
BB p237	3758	[-Standing aloof—denying portions so long;-]
BB p237	3759	[-Me with mole's eyes, unrisen to buoyancy and vision —unfree, -]
BB p237	3760	As I lay & c
BB p237	3761	As I mused with closed eyes
BB p237	3762	[-Only-] aware {+but+} to-day of compact, all-diffused truth,
BB p237	3763	{+¶+} [-Discovering to-day-] {+I saw to myself+} there is no lie, or form of lie, [-and can be none,-] {+¶+}but grows [-just-] as inevitably upon itself as the truth does upon itself,
BB p237	3764	Or as any law of the earth, or any natural production of the earth does.
BB p237	3765	(This is curious, and may not be realized immedi- ately—But it must be realized;
BB p237	3766	I feel in myself that I represent falsehoods equally with the rest,
BB p237	3767	And that the universe does.)
BB p237	3768	Where has failed a perfect return, indifferent of lies or the truth?
BB p237	3769	Is it upon the ground, or in water or fire? or in the spirit of man? or in the meat and blood?
BB p237	3770	As I lay with closed eyes ¶ I
BB p237	3771	[-Meditating among liars, and retreat [-ing-] {+ed+} sternly into myself,-] {+¶+}I [-see-] {+saw+} that there are really no liars or lies after all,
BB p237	3772	[-And-] {+I saw+} that nothing fail [-s-] {+'d+} its perfect return—And that what are called lies are perfect returns,
BB p238	3773	And that each thing exactly represents itself, and what has preceded it,
BB p238	3774	And that the truth includes all, and is compact, just as much as space is compact,
BB p238	3775	And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that {+all is truth+} without ex- ception,
BB p238	3776	And {+I rose & saw+} henceforth I will go celebrate anything I see or am,
BB p238	3777	And sing and laugh, and deny nothing.
BB p238	3778	As I lay with [-closed eyes-] {+my head+} in the lap of a comrade
BB p238	3779	As I lay with closed eyes under the trees [-so still-] a-dreaming.
BB p238	3780	FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts,
BB p238	3781	The ones known, and the ones unknown—the ones on the stars,
BB p238	3782	The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped,
BB p238	3783	Wonders as of those countries—the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be,
BB p238	3784	Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects,
BB p238	3785	Such-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 [-,-] {+:+}
BB p238	3786	That contains the start of each and all—the virtue, the germs of all [-;-] {+.+}
BB p238	3787	That is [-the-] {+my+} theory [-as-] of origins.
BB p239	3788	So far, and so far, and on toward the end,
BB p239	3789	Singing what is sung in this book, from the irresisti- ble impulses of me;
BB p239	3790	But whether I continue beyond this book, to ma- turity,
BB p239	3791	Whether I shall dart forth the true rays, the ones that wait unfired,
BB p239	3792	(Did you think the sun was shining its brightest?
BB p239	3793	No—it has not yet fully risen ;)
BB p239	3794	Whether I shall complete what is here started,
BB p239	3795	Whether I shall attain my own height, to justify these, yet unfinished,
BB p239	3796	Whether I shall make THE POEM OF THE NEW WORLD, transcending all others—depends, rich persons, upon you,
BB p239	3797	Depends, whoever you are now filling the current
BB p239	3798	Presidentiad, upon you,
BB p239	3799	Upon you, Governor, Mayor, Congressman,
BB p239	3800	And you, contemporary America.
BB p240	3801	< [-NOW I make a leaf of Voices—-] > for I have found noth- ing mightier < [-than they-] > [-are,-]
BB p240	3802	And I have found that no word spoken, but is beau- tiful, [-in its place.-]
BB p240	3803	[-O-] [-what is it in me that makes me tremble so at voices?-]
BB p240	3804	Surely, whoever speaks to me in [-the right voice-] {+that+} , {+¶+} him or her I shall follow, as the waters follow the moon, {+¶+}silently, with fluid steps, any where around the globe.
BB p240	3805	[-Now I believe that all waits for the right voices;-]
BB p240	3806	Where is th [-e-] {+at+} practised and perfect organ? Where [-is-] the developed Soul?
BB p240	3807	For [-I see-] [-every word-] uttered thence [-has-] {+come+} deeper, sweeter, new{+er+} sounds, impossible on less terms.
BB p240	3808	[-I see-] [- {+But+} -] [-brains and lips [- {+are+} -] closed—I see-] [-t-] {+T+} ympans and tem- ples {+remaining+} unstruck,
BB p240	3809	Until that comes which has the quality to strike and to unclose,
BB p240	3810	Until that comes which has the quality to bring forth what lies slumbering, {+¶+} forever ready, in all words.
BB p241	3811	WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleased with the sound of my own name? {+¶+}repeating it over and over,
BB p241	3812	I cannot tell why it affects me so much, when I hear it from women's voices, and from men's voices, or from my own voice,
BB p241	3813	I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.
BB p241	3814	To you, your name also,
BB p241	3815	{+(+}Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?{+)+}
BB p241	3816	LOCATIONS and times—what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home?
BB p241	3817	Forms, colors, densities, odors—what is it in me that corresponds with them?
BB p241	3818	What is the relation between me and them?
BB p242	3819	LIFT me close to your face till I whisper,
BB p242	3820	What you are holding is in reality no book, nor part of a book,
BB p242	3821	It is a man, flushed and full-blooded—it is I—So long!
BB p242	3822	(At ever leaf I [-feel-] {+[-have-] felt+} the pressure of your hand [-and return it;-] {+more than you know;+} )
BB p242	3823	{+For+} {+[-But-] now+} [- {+ now +} -] {+Now+} We [-must-] separate {+a while—+}—Here! take from my lips this kiss,
BB p242	3824	Whoever you are, I give it especially to you;
BB p242	3825	So long—and I hope we shall meet again.
BB p243	3826	O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman!
BB p243	3827	Such gliding wonders! Such sights and sounds!
BB p243	3828	Such joined unended links, each hooked to the next!
BB p243	3829	Each answering all—each sharing the earth with all.
BB p243	3830	What widens within you, Walt Whitman?
BB p243	3831	What waves and soils exuding?
BB p243	3832	What climes? What persons and lands are here?
BB p243	3833	Who are the infants? Some playing, some slum- bering?
BB p243	3834	Who are the girls? Who are the married women?
BB p243	3835	Who are the three old men going slowly with their arms about each others' necks?
BB p243	3836	What rivers are these? What forests and fruits are these?
BB p243	3837	What are the mountains called that rise so high in the mists?
BB p243	3838	What myriads of dwellings are they, filled with dwellers?
BB p243	3839	Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens,
BB p243	3840	Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west,
BB p244	3841	Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,
BB p244	3842	Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends;
BB p244	3843	Within me is the longest day—the sun wheels in slanting rings—it does not set for months,
BB p244	3844	Stretched in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon, and sinks again,
BB p244	3845	Within me zones, seas, cataracts, plains, volcanoes, groups,
BB p244	3846	[-Oceanica, Australasia,-] {+Malaysia,+} Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
BB p244	3847	What do you hear, Walt Whitman?
BB p244	3848	I hear the workman singing, and the farmer's wife singing,
BB p244	3849	I hear in the distance the sounds of children, and of animals early in the day,
BB p244	3850	I hear quick rifle-cracks from the riflemen of East Tennessee and Kentucky, hunting on hills,
BB p244	3851	I hear emulous shouts of Australians, pursuing the wild horse,
BB p244	3852	I hear the Spanish dance, with castanets, in the chest- nut shade, to the rebeck and guitar,
BB p244	3853	I hear continual echoes from the Thames,
BB p244	3854	I hear fierce French liberty songs,
BB p244	3855	I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems,
BB p244	3856	I hear the Virginia plantation chorus of negroes, of a harvest night, in the glare of pine knots,
BB p244	3857	I hear the strong baritone of the 'long-shore-men of Man{+na+}hatta,
BB p244	3858	I hear the stevedores unlading the cargoes, and singing,
BB p245	3859	I hear the screams of the water-fowl of solitary north- west lakes,
BB p245	3860	I hear the rustling pattering of locusts, as they strike the grain and grass with the showers of their terrible clouds,
BB p245	3861	I hear the Coptic refrain, toward sundown, pensively falling on the breast of the black venerable vast mother, the Nile,
BB p245	3862	I hear the bugles of raft-tenders on the streams of Kanada,
BB p245	3863	I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule,
BB p245	3864	I hear the Arab muezzin, calling from the top of the mosque,
BB p245	3865	I hear Christian priests at the altars of their churches —I hear the responsive base and soprano,
BB p245	3866	I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-haired Irish grand-parents, when they learn the death of their grand-son,
BB p245	3867	I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor's voice, putting to sea at Okotsk,
BB p245	3868	I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on—as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fastened together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
BB p245	3869	{+(+}I hear the entreaties of women tied up for punishment —I hear the sibilant whisk of thongs through the air;{+)+}
BB p245	3870	I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms,
BB p245	3871	I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans,
BB p245	3872	I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God, the Christ,
BB p246	3873	I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely to this day from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
BB p246	3874	What do you see, Walt Whitman?
BB p246	3875	Who are they who salute, and that one after another salute you?
BB p246	3876	I see a great round wonder rolling through the air,
BB p246	3877	I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, grave-yards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads, upon the surface,
BB p246	3878	I see the shaded part on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on the other side,
BB p246	3879	I see the curious silent change of the light and shade,
BB p246	3880	I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them, as my land is to me.
BB p246	3881	I see plenteous waters,
BB p246	3882	I see mountain peaks [-—-] {+,+} I see the sierras of Andes and Alleghanies, where they range,
BB p246	3883	I see plainly the Himmalehs, Chian Shahs, Altays, Gauts,
BB p246	3884	I see the Rocky Mountains, and the Peak of Winds,
BB p246	3885	I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps,
BB p246	3886	I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians—and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea Mount Hecla,
BB p246	3887	I see Vesuvius and Etna [-—-] {+,+} I see the Anahuacs,
BB p246	3888	I see the Mountains of the Moon, and the Snow Moun- tains, and the Red Mountains of Madagascar,
BB p246	3889	I see the Vermont hills, and the long string of Cor- dilleras;
BB p247	3890	I see the vast deserts of Western America,
BB p247	3891	I see the Libyan, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts;
BB p247	3892	I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
BB p247	3893	I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones—the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Bra- zilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
BB p247	3894	The Japan waters, those of Hindostan, the China Sea, and the Gulf of Guinea,
BB p247	3895	The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the Bay of Biscay,
BB p247	3896	The clear-sunned Mediterranean, and from one to an- other of its islands,
BB p247	3897	The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America,
BB p247	3898	The White Sea, and the sea around Greenland.
BB p247	3899	I behold the mariners of the world,
BB p247	3900	Some are in storms—some in the night, with the watch on the look-out,
BB p247	3901	Some drifting helplessly—some with contagious diseases eases.
BB p247	3902	I behold the steam-ships of the world, {+some in clusters in port, some {+are+} on their way+}
BB p247	3903	Some double the Cape of Storms [-—-] {+,+} some Cape Verde [-—-] {+,+} others Cape Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore,
BB p247	3904	Others Dondra Head—others pass the Straits of Sun- da [-—-] {+,+} others Cape Lopatka [-—-] {+,+} others Behring's Straits,
BB p247	3905	Others Cape Horn [-—-] {+,+} others the Gulf of Mexico, or along Cuba or Hayti [-—-] {+,+} others Hudson's Bay or Baffin's Bay,
BB p247	3906	Others pass the Straits of Dover [-—-] {+,+} others enter the Wash [-—-] {+,+} others the Firth of Solway [-—-] {+,+} others round Cape Clear [-—-] {+,+} others the Land's End,
BB p248	3907	Others traverse the Zuyder Zee, or the Scheld,
BB p248	3908	Others add to the exits and entrances at Sandy Hook,
BB p248	3909	Others to the comers and goers at Gibraltar, or the Dardanelles,
BB p248	3910	Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs,
BB p248	3911	Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena,
BB p248	3912	Others the Niger or the Congo—others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia,
BB p248	3913	Others wait at the wharves of Manahatta, steamed up, ready to start,
BB p248	3914	Wait, swift and swarthy, in the ports of Australia,
BB p248	3915	Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lis- bon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bourdeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen,
BB p248	3916	Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama,
BB p248	3917	Wait at their moorings at Boston, Philadelphia, Balti- more, Charleston, New Orleans, Galveston, San Francisco.
BB p248	3918	I see the [- {+thin two‑threaded+} -] tracks of the rail-roads of the earth,
BB p248	3919	I see them welding State to State, city to city, through North America;
BB p248	3920	I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe,
BB p248	3921	I see them in Asia and in Africa.
BB p248	3922	I see the electric telegraphs of the earth,
BB p248	3923	I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
BB p248	3924	I see the long river- [-stripes-] {+threads+} of the earth,
BB p248	3925	I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the. Columbia flows,
BB p249	3926	I see the Great River, and the Falls of Niagara,
BB p249	3927	I see the Amazon and the Paraguay,
BB p249	3928	I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the Pearl;
BB p249	3929	I see where the Seine flows, and where the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow,
BB p249	3930	I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder,
BB p249	3931	I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Vene- tian along the Po,
BB p249	3932	I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
BB p249	3933	I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India,
BB p249	3934	I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
BB p249	3935	I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms,
BB p249	3936	I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth —oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, lamas, monks, muftis, exhorters;
BB p249	3937	I see where druids walked the groves of Mona—I see the mistletoe and vervain,
BB p249	3938	I see the temples of the deaths [-of the bodies of-] {+of [-the-]+} Gods— I see the old signifiers.
BB p249	3939	I see Christ once more eating the bread of his last sup- per, in the midst of youths and old persons,
BB p249	3940	I see where the strong divine young man, the Hercules, toiled faithfully and long, and then died,
BB p249	3941	I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limbed Bacchus,
BB p250	3942	I see Kneph, blooming, dressed in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head,
BB p250	3943	I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, Do not weep for me,
BB p250	3944	This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country—I now go back there,
BB p250	3945	I return to the celestial sphere, where every one goes in his turn.
BB p250	3946	I see the battle-fields of the earth—grass grows upon them, and blossoms and corn,
BB p250	3947	I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
BB p250	3948	I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.
BB p250	3949	I see the places of the sagas,
BB p250	3950	I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts,
BB p250	3951	I see granite boulders and cliffs—I see green meadows and lakes,
BB p250	3952	I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors,
BB p250	3953	I 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 refreshed by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
BB p250	3954	I see the steppes of Asia,
BB p250	3955	I see the tumuli of Mongolia—I see the tents of Kal- mucks and Baskirs,
BB p250	3956	I see the nomadic tribes, with herds of oxen and cows,
BB p250	3957	I see the table-lands notched with ravines—I see the jungles and deserts,
BB p251	3958	I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, {+¶+} the fat- tailed sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.
BB p251	3959	I see the high-lands of Abyssinia,
BB p251	3960	I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
BB p251	3961	And see fields of teff-wheat, and see the places of verdure and gold.
BB p251	3962	I see the Brazilian vaquero,
BB p251	3963	I see the Bolivian ascending Mount Sorata,
BB p251	3964	I see the Wacho crossing the plains—I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his arm,
BB p251	3965	I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.
BB p251	3966	I see little and large sea-dots, some inhabited, some uninhabited;
BB p251	3967	I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Pau- manok, quite still,
BB p251	3968	I see ten fishermen waiting—they discover now a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the joined seine-ends in the water,
BB p251	3969	The boats separate—they diverge and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
BB p251	3970	The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
BB p251	3971	Some of the fishermen lounge in the boats—others stand negligently ankle-deep in the water, poised on strong legs,
BB p252	3972	The boats are partly drawn up—the water slaps against them,
BB p252	3973	On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the water, lie the green-backed spotted mossbonkers.
BB p252	3974	I see the despondent red man in the west, lingering about the banks of Moingo, and about Lake Pepin,
BB p252	3975	He has heard the quail and beheld the honey-bee, and sadly prepared to depart.
BB p252	3976	I see the regions of snow and ice,
BB p252	3977	I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn,
BB p252	3978	I see the seal-seeker in his boat, poising his lance,
BB p252	3979	I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge, drawn by dogs,
BB p252	3980	I see the porpoise-hunters—I see the whale-crews of the South Pacific and the North Atlantic,
BB p252	3981	I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzer- land—I mark the long winters, and the isolation.
BB p252	3982	I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom a part of them,
BB p252	3983	I am a real Parisian,
BB p252	3984	I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople,
BB p252	3985	I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne,
BB p252	3986	I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick,
BB p252	3987	I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence,
BB p253	3988	I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw—or northward in Christiania or Stockholm [-—-] {+¶+} or in Siberian Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland;
BB p253	3989	I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
BB p253	3990	I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries,
BB p253	3991	I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poisoned splint, the fetish, and the obi.
BB p253	3992	I see African and Asiatic towns,
BB p253	3993	I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia,
BB p253	3994	I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Yedo,
BB p253	3995	I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts,
BB p253	3996	I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo,
BB p253	3997	I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva, and those of Herat,
BB p253	3998	I see Teheran—I see Muscat and Medina, and the intervening sands—I see the caravans toiling onward;
BB p253	3999	I see Egypt and the Egyptians—I see the pyramids and obelisks,
BB p253	4000	I look on chiselled histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite blocks,
BB p253	4001	I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies, embalmed, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
BB p253	4002	I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.
BB p254	4003	I see the menials of the earth, laboring,
BB p254	4004	I see the prisoners in the prisons,
BB p254	4005	I see the defective human bodies of the earth,
BB p254	4006	I see the blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunch- backs, lunatics,
BB p254	4007	I see the pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave- makers of the earth,
BB p254	4008	I see the helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
BB p254	4009	I see male and female everywhere,
BB p254	4010	I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs,
BB p254	4011	I see the constructiveness of my race,
BB p254	4012	I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race,
BB p254	4013	I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations—I go among them—I mix indiscriminately,
BB p254	4014	And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
BB p254	4015	You, where you are!
BB p254	4016	You daughter or son of England!
BB p254	4017	You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!
BB p254	4018	You dim-descended, black, divine-souled African, large, fine-headed, nobly-formed, superbly des- tined, on equal terms with me!
BB p254	4019	You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
BB p254	4020	You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
BB p254	4021	You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
BB p254	4022	You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands!
BB p254	4023	You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohe- mian! farmer of Styria!
BB p255	4024	You neighbor of the Danube!
BB p255	4025	You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!
BB p255	4026	You Sardinian! you Bavarian! you Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!
BB p255	4027	You citizen of Prague! you Roman! Neapolitan! Greek!
BB p255	4028	You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!
BB p255	4029	You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!
BB p255	4030	You Bokh horse-herd, watching your mares and stal- lions feeding!
BB p255	4031	You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the saddle, shooting arrows to the mark!
BB p255	4032	You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tar- tar of Tartary!
BB p255	4033	You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
BB p255	4034	You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk, to stand once on Syrian ground!
BB p255	4035	You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!
BB p255	4036	You thoughtful Armenian, pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending Mount Ararat!
BB p255	4037	You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!
BB p255	4038	You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab{+‑+}el- mandel, ruling your families and tribes!
BB p255	4039	You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Naz- areth, Damascus, or Lake Tiberias!
BB p255	4040	You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!
BB p255	4041	You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagas- car, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!
BB p256	4042	All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Aus- tralia, indifferent of place!
BB p256	4043	All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
BB p256	4044	And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me!
BB p256	4045	And you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not, but include just the same!
BB p256	4046	Health to you! Good will to you all—from me and America sent,
BB p256	4047	[-For [-we-] [- {+I & my land+} -] acknowledge you all and each.-]
BB p256	4048	Each of us inevitable,
BB p256	4049	Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth,
BB p256	4050	Each of us allowed the eternal purport of the earth,
BB p256	4051	Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
BB p256	4052	[-You Hottentot with clicking palate!-]
BB p256	4053	[-You woolly-haired hordes! you white or black owners of slaves! -]
BB p256	4054	You owned persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood- drops!
BB p256	4055	You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
BB p256	4056	You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon, [-for all your glimmering language and spirituality! -]
BB p256	4057	You low expiring aborigines of the hills of Utah, Oregon, California!
BB p256	4058	You dwarfed Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!
BB p256	4059	You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, grovelling, seeking your food!
BB p256	4060	You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!
BB p257	4061	You haggard, uncouth, untutored Bedowee!
BB p257	4062	You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!
BB p257	4063	You bather bathing in the Ganges!
BB p257	4064	You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Fegee-man!
BB p257	4065	You peon of Mexico! you Russian serf! you slave of Carolina, Texas, Tennessee!
BB p257	4066	[-I do not prefer others so very much before you either,-]
BB p257	4067	I do not say one word against you, away back there, where you stand,
BB p257	4068	(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
BB p257	4069	My spirit has passed in compassion and determination around the whole earth,
BB p257	4070	[-I have looked for equals and lovers, and found them ready for me in all lands; -]
BB p257	4071	I think some divine rapport has equalized me with [-them.-] {+all lands.+}
BB p257	4072	O vapors! I think I have risen with you, {+¶+}[-and-] [-m-] {+M+} oved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons [-,-] {+;+}
BB p257	4073	I think I have blown with you, O winds [-,-] {+;+}
BB p257	4074	O waters, I have fingered every shore with you.
BB p257	4075	I [-have-] run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through,
BB p257	4076	I [-have-] take[-n-] my stand on the bases of peninsulas, and on the highest embedded rocks, to cry thence.
BB p257	4077	Salut au Monde!
BB p257	4078	What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I pen- etrate those cities myself,
BB p258	4079	All islands to which birds wing their way, I wing my way myself.
BB p258	4080	Toward all,
BB p258	4081	I raise high the perpendicular hand [-—-] {+¶+} I make [-the-] {+a+} signal,
BB p258	4082	To remain after me in sight forever,
BB p258	4083	For all the haunts and homes of men.
BB p259	4084	O TO make [-a-] [- {+the+} -] {+the+} most jubilant poem!
BB p259	4085	O full of music! Full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
BB p259	4086	O full of common employments! Full of grain and trees.
BB p259	4087	O for the voices of animals! O for the swiftness and balance of fishes!
BB p259	4088	O for the dropping of rain-drops in a poem!
BB p259	4089	O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a poem.
BB p259	4090	O to be on the sea! the wind, the wide waters around;
BB p259	4091	O to sail in a ship under full sail at sea.
BB p259	4092	O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts like lightning!
BB p259	4093	It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time{+,+} [-—-] {+¶+} I will have thousands of globes, and all time.
BB p259	4094	O the engineer's joys!
BB p259	4095	{+O+} To go with a locomotive!
BB p260	4096	[- {+O+} -] To hear the hiss of steam—the merry shriek—the steam-whistle—the laughing locomotive!
BB p260	4097	To push with resistless way, and speed off in the distance.
BB p260	4098	O the horseman's and horsewoman's joys!
BB p260	4099	The saddle—the gallop—the pressure upon the seat —the cool gurgling by the ears and hair.
BB p260	4100	O the fireman's joys!
BB p260	4101	I hear the alarm at dead of night,
BB p260	4102	I hear bells—shouts!—I pass the crowd—I run!
BB p260	4103	The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure.
BB p260	4104	O the joy of the strong-brawned fighter, towering in the arena, in perfect condition, {+¶+} conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
BB p260	4105	O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy [-which only-] {+¶+} the human Soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
BB p260	4106	O the mother's joys!
BB p260	4107	The watching—the endurance—the precious love— the anguish—the patiently yielded life.
BB p260	4108	O the joy of increase, growth, recuperation,
BB p260	4109	The joy of soothing and pacifying—the joy of concord and harmony.
BB p260	4110	O to go back to the place where I was born!
BB p260	4111	O to hear the birds sing once more!
BB p260	4112	To ramble about the house and barn, and over the fields, once more,
BB p261	4113	And through the orchard and along the old lanes once more.
BB p261	4114	O male and female!
BB p261	4115	[-O the presence of women! (I swear, nothing is more exquisite to me than the presence of women;) -]
BB p261	4116	O for the girl, my mate! O for happiness with my mate!
BB p261	4117	O the young man as I pass! {+¶+}O I am sick after the friendship of him who, I fear, is indifferent to me.
BB p261	4118	O the streets of cities!
BB p261	4119	The flitting faces—the expressions, eyes, feet, cos- tumes! [-O I cannot tell how welcome they are to me; -]
BB p261	4120	[-O of men—of women toward me as I pass-] [-—-] {+¶+} The memory of only one look—the boy lingering and waiting.
BB p261	4121	O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast!
BB p261	4122	O to continue and be employed there all my life!
BB p261	4123	O the briny and damp smell—the shore—the salt weeds exposed at low water [-,-] {+!+}
BB p261	4124	The work of fishermen—the work of the eel-fisher and clam-fisher.
BB p261	4125	O it is I!
BB p261	4126	I come with my clam-rake and spade! I come with my eel-spear;
BB p261	4127	Is the tide out? I join the group of clam-diggers on the flats,
BB p262	4128	I laugh and work with them—I joke at my work, like a mettlesome young man.
BB p262	4129	In winter I take my eel-basket and eel-spear[- {+,+} -] < [-and-] > [- {+¶ I+} -] and travel out on foot on the ice < [-—I have-] > [- {+¶ With+} -] a small axe to cut holes in the ice;
BB p262	4130	[- {+¶+} -]Behold me, well-clothed, going gayly, or returning in the afternoon < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] my brood of tough boys accom- panying me,
BB p262	4131	[- My brood of grown and part-grown boys, -] [- {+¶+} -]who love to be with none else so well as they love to be with me,
BB p262	4132	By day to work with me, and by night to sleep with me.
BB p262	4133	Or, another time, in warm weather, out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots, [- {+¶+} -]where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys;)
BB p262	4134	O the sweetness of the Fifth Month morning upon the water, [- {+¶+} -]as I row, just before sunrise, toward the buoys;
BB p262	4135	[- {+¶+} -]I pull the wicker pots up slantingly < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] the dark green lobsters are desperate with their claws, as I take them out < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] I insert wooden pegs in the joints of their pincers,
BB p262	4136	I go to all the places, one after another, and then row back to the shore,
BB p262	4137	There, in a huge kettle of boiling water, the lobsters shall be boiled till their color becomes scarlet.
BB p262	4138	Or, another time, mackerel-taking,
BB p262	4139	Voracious, mad for the hook, near the surface, they seem to fill the water for miles;
BB p263	4140	Or, another time, fishing for rock-fish in Chesapeake Bay—I one of the brown-faced crew;
BB p263	4141	Or, another time, trailing for blue-fish off Paumanok, I stand with braced body,
BB p263	4142	My left foot is on the gunwale—my right arm throws the coils of slender rope,
BB p263	4143	In sight around me the quick veering and darting of fifty skiffs, my companions.
BB p263	4144	O boating on the rivers!
BB p263	4145	The voyage down the [-Niagara, (the-] St. Lawrence,[-)-]— the superb scenery [-—-] {+¶+} the steamers,
BB p263	4146	The ships sailing—the Thousand Islands [-—-] {+¶+} the occa- sional timber-raft, and the raftsmen with long- reaching sweep-oars,
BB p263	4147	The little huts on the rafts, and the stream of smoke [-when they cook supper at evening.-] {+from the fires as they slowly pass.+}
BB p263	4148	O something {+now+} pernicious and dread!
BB p263	4149	Something far away from a puny and pious life!
BB p263	4150	Something unproved! Something in a trance!
BB p263	4151	Something escaped from the anchorage, and driving free.
BB p263	4152	O to work in mines, or forging iron!
BB p263	4153	Foundry casting—the foundry itself—the rude high roof—the ample and shadowed space,
BB p263	4154	The furnace—the hot liquid poured out and running.
BB p263	4155	O the joys of the soldier!
BB p263	4156	To feel the presence of a brave general! to feel his sympathy!
BB p263	4157	To behold his calmness! to be warmed in the rays of his smile!
BB p264	4158	To go to battle! to hear the bugles play, and the drums beat!
BB p264	4159	To hear the artillery! to see the glittering of the bay- onets and musket-barrels in the sun!
BB p264	4160	To see men fall and die and not complain!
BB p264	4161	To taste the savage taste of blood! to be so devilish!
BB p264	4162	To gloat so over the wounds and deaths of the enemy.
BB p264	4163	O the whaleman's joys! O I cruise my old cruise again!
BB p264	4164	I feel the ship's motion under me—I feel the Atlantic breezes fanning me,
BB p264	4165	I hear the cry again sent down from the mast-head, There she blows,
BB p264	4166	Again I spring up the rigging, to look with the rest— We see—we descend, wild with excitement,
BB p264	4167	I leap in the lowered boat—We row toward our prey, where he lies,
BB p264	4168	We approach, stealthy and silent—I see the moun- tainous mass, lethargic, basking,
BB p264	4169	I see the harpooner standing up—I see the weapon dart from his vigorous arm;
BB p264	4170	O swift, again, now, far out in the ocean, the wounded whale, settling, running to windward, tows me,
BB p264	4171	Again I see him rise to breathe—We row close again,
BB p264	4172	I see a lance driven through his side, pressed deep, turned in the wound,
BB p264	4173	Again we back off—I see him settle again—the life is leaving him fast,
BB p264	4174	As he rises, he spouts blood—I see him swim in cir- cles narrower and narrower, swiftly cutting the water—I see him die,
BB p265	4175	He gives one convulsive leap in the centre of the cir- cle, and then falls flat and still in the bloody foam.
BB p265	4176	O the old manhood of me, my joy!
BB p265	4177	My children and grand-children—my white hair and beard,
BB p265	4178	My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life.
BB p265	4179	O the ripened joy of womanhood!
BB p265	4180	O perfect happiness at last!
BB p265	4181	I am more than eighty years of age—my hair, too, is pure white—I am the most venerable mother;
BB p265	4182	How clear is my mind! how all people draw nigh to me!
BB p265	4183	What attractions are these [-,-] {+?+} [-beyond any before?-] what bloom, more than the bloom of youth?
BB p265	4184	What beauty is this that descends upon me, and rises out of me?
BB p265	4185	O the joy of my Soul leaning poised on itself [-—-] {+¶+} receiv- ing identity through materials, and loving them [-—-] {+¶+} observing characters, and absorbing them [-,-] {+.+}
BB p265	4186	O my Soul, vibrated back to me, from them—from facts, sight, hearing, touch, {+¶+} my phrenology, reason, articulation, comparison, memory, and the like [-,-] {+.+}
BB p265	4187	O the real life of my senses and flesh, transcending my senses and flesh;
BB p265	4188	O my body, done with materials—my sight, done with my material eyes;
BB p265	4189	O what is proved to me this day, beyond cavil, that it is not my material eyes which finally see,
BB p266	4190	Nor my material body which finally loves, walks, laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.
BB p266	4191	O the farmer's joys!
BB p266	4192	Ohioan's, Illinoisian's, Wisconsinese', Kanadian's, Io- wan's, Kansian's, [-Missourian's, Oregonese'-] joys,
BB p266	4193	To rise at peep of day, and pass forth nimbly to work,
BB p266	4194	To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops,
BB p266	4195	To plough land in the spring for maize,
BB p266	4196	To train orchards—to graft the trees—to gather apples in the fall.
BB p266	4197	O the pleasure with trees!
BB p266	4198	The orchard—the forest—the oak, cedar, pine, pekan-tree,
BB p266	4199	The honey-locust, black-walnut, cottonwood, and mag- nolia.
BB p266	4200	O Death!
BB p266	4201	O the beautiful touch [-of Death,-] soothing and benumb- ing a few moments, for reasons;
BB p266	4202	O that of myself, discharging my excrementitious body, to be burned, or rendered to powder, or buried,
BB p266	4203	My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
BB p266	4204	My voided body, nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, {+¶ To the+} further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
BB p266	4205	O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place along shore!
BB p266	4206	To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep; to race naked along the shore.
BB p267	4207	O to realize space!
BB p267	4208	The plenteousness of all—that there are no bounds;
BB p267	4209	To emerge, and be of the sky[-—of the sun and moon,-] and the flying clouds, as one with them.
BB p267	4210	O, while I live, to be the ruler of life—not a slave,
BB p267	4211	To meet life as a powerful conqueror,
BB p267	4212	No fumes—no ennui—no more complaints or scorn- ful criticisms.
BB p267	4213	O me repellent and ugly!
BB p267	4214	O to these proud laws of the air, the water, and the ground, {+¶+}proving my interior Soul impreg- nable, {+as against them,+}
BB p267	4215	And nothing exterior shall ever take command of me.
BB p267	4216	O to attract by more than attraction!
BB p267	4217	How it is I know not—yet behold! the something which obeys none of the rest,
BB p267	4218	It is offensive, never defensive—yet how magnetic it draws.
BB p267	4219	O the joy of suffering!
BB p267	4220	To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies un- daunted!
BB p267	4221	To be entirely alone with them! to find how much [-I-] {+one+} can stand!
BB p267	4222	To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face!
BB p267	4223	To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance!
BB p267	4224	To be indeed a God!
BB p268	4225	O the gleesome saunter over fields and hill-sides!
BB p268	4226	The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds—the moist fresh stillness of the woods,
BB p268	4227	The exquisite smell of the earth at day-break, and all through the forenoon.
BB p268	4228	O love-branches! love-root! love-apples!
BB p268	4229	O chaste and electric torrents! O mad-sweet drops.
BB p268	4230	O the orator's joys!
BB p268	4231	To inflate the chest—to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
BB p268	4232	To make the people rage [-,-] {+¶+} weep, [-hate [-,-] {+.+} -] {+at will.+} [-desire, with yourself,-]
BB p268	4233	[-To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue. -]
BB p268	4234	O [-the-] joy of a [-manly self-hood!-] {+grand personality!+}
BB p268	4235	[-Personality—to be servile to none—to defer to none —not to any tyrant, known or unknown, -]
BB p268	4236	To walk with erect carriage, a step springy and elastic,
BB p268	4237	To look with calm gaze, or with a flashing eye,
BB p268	4238	To speak with a full and sonorous voice, out of a broad chest,
BB p268	4239	To confront with your personality all the other{+s+} [-per- sonalities-] of the earth.
BB p268	4240	O to have my life henceforth my poem of joys!
BB p268	4241	To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on,
BB p268	4242	An athlete—full of rich words—full of joys.
BB p269	4243	The {+A+} word the rustling sea‑lips whisper'd
BB p269	4244	[-The hoarse-] [-The-] [- {+You+} -] word [-there-] [- {+so+} -] {+ +} curious [-ever,-] ever lisp[-ing-] {+ [-you,-] hoarsely murmuring sea‑lips,+}
BB p269	4245	[-That-] [- {+The+} -] {+A+} word [-there hissing-] {+[-hiss'd-]{+there+} lowly+} [-over-] {+down on+} the sands, brought [-up-] [-up-] from the deeps profound,
BB p269	4246	Here [-to-] {+I+} invoke, {+invoke again, [-out of-] {+over+} the years!+}—out of the [-rock'd-] cradle,
BB p269	4247	Battles, the [-whirl of -] {+horrors of fratricidal+} [- first -] [-intestine-] war, {+the deaths of+}
BB p269	4248	[-The news of-] my friends mortally wounded.
BB p269	4249	A word the rustling sea‑lips whisper'd
BB p269	4250	A word there lowly [-down-] on the sands brought from the deeps profound
BB p269	4251	That word of beauty out of the [-sea-] deeps {+profound,+}
BB p269	4252	That murmured word I loved so well in youth
BB p269	4253	Again invoking {+over the sands,+} out of the Ninth‑Month midnight
BB p269	4254	What does the sea‑lips whisper?
BB p269	4255	As [-it-] [-hoarsely-] {+hoarse and low it+} rustles over the [-sand-] [- {+shores+} -] {+sands+} [-,-] {+?+}
BB p269	4256	What [-does it say-] {+is the word it brings+} out of its deep profound?
BB p269	4257	Out of the sea‑lips, hoarsely murmuring
BB p269	4258	[-OUT of the rocked cradle [-,-] [- {+;+} -] (to answer the {+curious+} question)-]
BB p269	4259	Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the musical shuttle [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4260	[-Out of the boy's mother's womb, and from the nipples of her breasts [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p269	4261	Out of the Ninth Month midnight [-,-] {+;+} {+again I invoke it,+}
BB p269	4262	Over the [-sterile-] sands, and the fields beyond, {+¶+} {+(+}where the child, leaving his bed, wandered alone, bare- headed, barefoot [-,-] {+;+} {+)+}
BB p269	4263	[-Down from the showered halo [-,-] [- {+;+} -] {+& —up from the [-rustling-] {+hissing+} liquid,+}-]
BB p269	4264	Up from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were alive [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4265	Out from the patches of briers and blackberries [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4266	From the memories of the bird that chanted to me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4267	From your memories, sad brother—from the fitful risings and fallings I heard [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4268	From under that yellow half-moon, late-risen, and swollen as if with tears [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4269	From those beginning notes of sickness and love, there in the transparent mist [-,-] {+;+}
BB p269	4270	From the thousand responses of my heart, never to cease [-,-] {+;+}
BB p270	4271	From the myriad thence-aroused words [-,-] {+;+}
BB p270	4272	From the word stronger and more delicious than any [-,-] {+;+}
BB p270	4273	From such, as {+again+} they start, the scene revisiting,
BB p270	4274	As a flock, twittering, rising, or overhead passing,
BB p270	4275	Borne hither—ere all eludes me, hurriedly,
BB p270	4276	A man—yet by these tears a little boy again,
BB p270	4277	Throwing myself on the < [-sands,-] > [- {+shore,+} -] confronting the waves,
BB p270	4278	I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and here- after,
BB p270	4279	Taking all hints to use them—but swiftly leaping beyond them,
BB p270	4280	A reminiscence sing.
BB p270	4281	{+A tale, how+}ONCE, Paumanok,
BB p270	4282	When the snows had melted, and the Fifth Month grass was growing,
BB p270	4283	Up this [-sea-shore,-] {+bank this sea-shore+} in some briers,
BB p270	4284	Two guests [- {+there were+} -] from Alabama—two together,
BB p270	4285	And their nest, and four light-green eggs, spotted with brown [-,-] {+;+}
BB p270	4286	And every day the he-bird, to and fro, near at hand,
BB p270	4287	And every day the she-bird, crouched on < [-her-] > [- {+the+} -] nest, silent, with bright eyes,
BB p270	4288	And [-every day-] I, a curious boy, never too close, never disturbing them,
BB p270	4289	Cautiously peering, absorbing, translating.
BB p270	4290	Shine! [-S-] {+s+} hine! {+ [-S-] {+s+} hine! +}
BB p270	4291	Pour down your warmth, great Sun!
BB p270	4292	While we bask—we two together.
BB p271	4293	Two together! [- {+There! There!+} -]
BB p271	4294	Winds blow South, or winds blow North,
BB p271	4295	Day come white, or night come black,
BB p271	4296	Home, or rivers and mountains from home,
BB p271	4297	Singing all time, minding no time,
BB p271	4298	If we two but keep together.
BB p271	4299	Till of a sudden,
BB p271	4300	May-be killed, unknown to her mate,
BB p271	4301	One forenoon the she-bird crouched not on the nest [-,-] {+;+}
BB p271	4302	Nor returned that afternoon, nor the next,
BB p271	4303	Nor ever appeared again.
BB p271	4304	And thenceforward, all summer, [-in-] < [-the sound of-] > [- {+ +} -] the sound of the sea,
BB p271	4305	And at night, under the full of the moon, in calmer weather,
BB p271	4306	Over the hoarse surging of the sea,
BB p271	4307	Or flitting from brier to brier by day,
BB p271	4308	I saw, I heard at intervals, the remaining one, the he-bird,
BB p271	4309	The solitary guest from Alabama.
BB p271	4310	Blow! Blow! {+Blow!+}
BB p271	4311	Blow up sea-winds along Paumanok's shore;
BB p271	4312	{+O+} I wait and I wait, till you blow my mate to me.
BB p271	4313	Yes, when the stars glistened,
BB p271	4314	All night long, on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake,
BB p271	4315	Down, almost amid the slapping waves,
BB p271	4316	Sat the lone singer, wonderful, causing tears.
BB p271	4317	He called on his mate [-,-] {+;+}
BB p271	4318	He poured forth the meanings which I, of all men, know.
BB p272	4319	Yes, [-my brother-] {+poor [-dusky-] demon+} , I know [-,-] {+;+}
BB p272	4320	The rest might not—but I have treasured every note [-,-] {+;+}
BB p272	4321	For once, and more than once, dimly, down to the beach gliding,
BB p272	4322	Silent, avoiding the moonbeams, blending myself with the shadows,
BB p272	4323	Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts,
BB p272	4324	The white arms out in the breakers tirelessly tossing,
BB p272	4325	I, with bare feet, a child, the wind wafting my hair,
BB p272	4326	Listened long and long.
BB p272	4327	Listened, to keep, to sing—now translating the notes,
BB p272	4328	Following you, my brother.
BB p272	4329	Soothe! [-S-] {+s+} oothe! {+ [-S-] {+s+} oothe! +}
BB p272	4330	Close on its wave soothes the wave behind,
BB p272	4331	And again another behind, embracing and lapping, every one close,
BB p272	4332	[- {+(+} -]But my love [- {+, my love+} -] soothes not me [-.-] {+,+} [- {+)+} -] {+not me.+}
BB p272	4333	Low hangs the moon—it rose late [-,-] {+;+}
BB p272	4334	O it is lagging—O I think it is heavy with love [-.-] {+,+} {+with love+}
BB p272	4335	O madly the sea [- {+the se+} -] pushes{+,+} {+pushes+} upon the land,
BB p272	4336	With love—with love.
BB p272	4337	O night! {+do+}
BB p272	4338	[-O do-] I not see my love fluttering out there among the breakers?
BB p272	4339	What is that little black thing I see there in the white?
BB p273	4340	Loud! [-L-] {+l+} oud! {+Loud!+}
BB p273	4341	{+So+} Loud I call{+I call+} to you my love!
BB p273	4342	{+So+} High and clear I shoot my voice over the waves [-,-] {+;+}
BB p273	4343	Surely you must know who is here, {+is here.+}
BB p273	4344	You must know who I am, my love.
BB p273	4345	Low-hanging moon! [- {+wet, sul+} -]
BB p273	4346	What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow?
BB p273	4347	O it is the shape {+the shape+} of my mate!
BB p273	4348	O moon, do not keep her from me any longer.
BB p273	4349	Land! {+land!+} O {+dim and sullen+} land!
BB p273	4350	[-Whichever way I turn,-] O I think you could give me my mate back again, if you {+only+} would [-,-] {+;+}
BB p273	4351	For I am almost sure I see her dimly whichever way I look.
BB p273	4352	O rising stars!
BB p273	4353	Perhaps the one I want so much will rise {+will rise+} with some of you.
BB p273	4354	O throat! {+O trembling throat!+}
BB p273	4355	Sound clearer through the atmosphere!
BB p273	4356	{+Pierce+} Pierce the woods, the earth [-,-] {+;+}
BB p273	4357	{+O+} Somewhere listening to catch you must be the one I want.
BB p273	4358	Shake out, carols!
BB p273	4359	[-Solitary here—-] the night's carols!
BB p273	4360	Carols of lonesome love! Death's carols!
BB p273	4361	Carols under that lagging, yellow, waning moon!
BB p273	4362	O, under that moon, where she droops almost down into the sea[-!-] {+the sea,+}
BB p273	4363	< [-O-] > reckless, despairing carols.
BB p274	4364	But soft!
BB p274	4365	Sink low — [-soft!-]
BB p274	4366	Soft! Let me just [- {+just+} -] murmur [-,-] {+;+}
BB p274	4367	And do you wait a moment, you husky-noised sea [-,-] {+;+}
BB p274	4368	For somewhere I [-believe-] {+think+} I heard my mate responding to me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p274	4369	So faint—I must be still {+be still+} to listen,
BB p274	4370	But not altogether still, for then she might not come immediately to me.
BB p274	4371	Hither, my love!
BB p274	4372	Here I am! [-Here!-]
BB p274	4373	With this just-sustained note I announce myself to you [-,-] {+;+}
BB p274	4374	This gentle call is for you, my love [-.-] {+,+} {+for you.+}
BB p274	4375	Do not be decoyed elsewhere [-!-] {+;+}
BB p274	4376	That is the whistle of the wind—it is not my voice [-,-] {+;+}
BB p274	4377	That is the fluttering {+the fluttering+} of the spray [-,-] {+;+}
BB p274	4378	Those are the shadows of leaves.
BB p274	4379	O darkness! O in vain! {+(no answer comes—nor will ever come;)+}
BB p274	4380	O I am very sick and sorrowful.
BB p274	4381	O brown halo in the sky, near the moon, drooping upon the sea!
BB p274	4382	O troubled reflection in the sea!
BB p274	4383	O throat! O throbbing heart!
BB p274	4384	O all—and I [-singing-] {+chanting+} {+murmuring+} uselessly{+,+} {+uselessly through+} [-all-] the night.
BB p274	4385	{+Yet will I+} [-Murmur! Murmur on [-!-] {+;+} -]
BB p274	4386	O murmurs—you yourselves make me continue to sing, I know not why.
BB p275	4387	O past! [-O joy!-] {+O life!+} {+O songs of joy!+}
BB p275	4388	Day coming white, or night coming black,
BB p275	4389	Winds blowing North, or winds blowing South,
BB p275	4390	In the air—in the woods—over fields,
BB p275	4391	Loved! [-L-] {+l+} oved! [-L-] {+l+} oved! [-L-] {+l+} oved! [-L-] {+l+} oved!
BB p275	4392	[- {+Happily+} -] [-Loved-] {+O my love+} {+in the past+} [-—but-] [- {+Once+} -] no more {+no more+} with me,
BB p275	4393	We two together no more.
BB p275	4394	{+Now+} The aria sinking [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4395	All else continuing—the stars shining [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4396	The winds blowing—the notes of the [-wondrous-] bird echoing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4397	With angry moans the fierce old mother yet, as ever, incessantly moaning,
BB p275	4398	On the sands of Paumanok's shore gray and rustling [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4399	The yellow half-moon, enlarged, sagging down, droop- ing, the face of the sea almost touching [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4400	The boy extatic—with his bare feet the waves, with his hair the atmosphere dallying [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4401	The love in the heart pent, now loose, [-now-] at last{+,+} {+and+} tumultuously bursting [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4402	The aria's meaning, the ears, the Soul, {+there in the [-depth of the-] night,+} [-swiftly-] depos- iting [-,-]
BB p275	4403	The strange tears down the cheeks coursing [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4404	The colloquy there—the trio—each uttering [-,-] {+;+}
BB p275	4405	The undertone—the savage old mother, incessantly crying,
BB p275	4406	To the boy's Soul's questions sullenly timing—{+(+}some drowned secret hissing,
BB p275	4407	To the outsetting bard of love.{+)+}
BB p275	4408	{+Demon or+} Bird! ([-then-] said [- {+that+} -] the boy's Soul,)
BB p275	4409	Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it mostly to me?
BB p275	4410	For I that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping,
BB p275	4411	Now that I have heard you,
BB p276	4412	Now in a moment I know what I am for—I awake,
BB p276	4413	And already a thousand singers—a thousand songs, clearer, louder, more sorrowful than yours,
BB p276	4414	A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me,
BB p276	4415	Never to die.
BB p276	4416	[-O throes!-]
BB p276	4417	< [-O-] > [- {+ with +} -] [-you demon,-] {+you singer, solitary,+} singing by yourself—projecting me,
BB p276	4418	< [-O-] > [- {+ with +} -] solitary me, listening—never [-more-] {+after this hour+} shall I cease [-imitating,-] perpetuating you,
BB p276	4419	Never more shall I escape,[- {+—+} -]
BB p276	4420	Never more [-shall-] the reverberations,
BB p276	4421	Never [-more-] the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me,
BB p276	4422	Never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what [-t-]here, in the night,
BB p276	4423	By th [-e-] {+is+} sea, under th [-e-] {+at+} yellow and sagging moon,
BB p276	4424	[-The-] {+You O+} {+The messenger sent+} [-dusky-] [-demon-] [- {+singer+} -] aroused—the fire, the sweet hell within,
BB p276	4425	The unknown want, the destiny of me.
BB p276	4426	O give me some clew! {+([-for-] it lurks in the night here somewhere;)+}
BB p276	4427	O if I am to have so much, let me have more!
BB p276	4428	O a word! O what is my destination?
BB p276	4429	[-O-] {+(+} I fear it is henceforth chaos!{+)+}
BB p276	4430	[-O how-] {+For+} {+lo!+} [-joys, dreads,-] convolutions, human shapes, and all shapes, spring as from graves around me!
BB p276	4431	< [-O-] > phantoms! you {+who+} cover [-all-] the land, and [-all-] the sea!
BB p276	4432	[-O-] I cannot [-see-] {+tell+} see in the dimness whether you smile or frown upon me;
BB p276	4433	O [-vapor,-] a look, a word! [-O well-beloved!-] {+Only One word+}
BB p276	4434	O you dear women's and men's phantoms!
BB p277	4435	[-A word then,-] {+The word of the [-sea-] {+deeps, [-profound,-]+}+} (for I [-will-] {+did+} conquer it,)
BB p277	4436	The word {+so husky, strange,+} [-final,-] superior to all,
BB p277	4437	Subtle, sent up—what is it?—I listen;
BB p277	4438	Are you whispering it, and have been all the time, you [-sea--]waves?
BB p277	4439	Is that it from your liquid rims and wet sands?
BB p277	4440	{+Whereto,+} Answering, the sea,
BB p277	4441	Delaying not, hurrying not,
BB p277	4442	Whispered me through the night, and very plainly before daybreak,
BB p277	4443	Lisped to me [-constantly-] the low and delicious word DEATH,
BB p277	4444	And again Death—ever Death, Death, Death,
BB p277	4445	Hissing melodious, neither like the bird, nor like my aroused child's heart,
BB p277	4446	But edging near, as privately for me, rustling at my feet,
BB p277	4447	[-And-] creeping thence steadily up to my ears, {+and laving me softly all over,+}
BB p277	4448	Death, Death, Death, Death, Death.
BB p277	4449	Which I do not forget,
BB p277	4450	But fuse the song of [-two together,-] {+[-the-]{+my+} dusky demon and brother+}
BB p277	4451	That [-was-] {+he+} s [-u-] {+a+} ng to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach,
BB p277	4452	With the thousand responsive songs, at random,
BB p277	4453	My own songs, awaked from that hour, {+and now chanted+}
BB p277	4454	And with them the key, the word [-up from the waves,-] [- {+lips+} -] {+from the deeps profound,+}
BB p277	4455	The word of the sweetest song, and all songs,
BB p277	4456	That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet,
BB p277	4457	The sea{+‑lips+} whispered < [-me-] >.
BB p278	4458	SAUNTERING [- {+Manhattan's+} -] < [-the-] > pavement, < [-or riding the country by- road,-] > [- {+—lo! such faces!+} -] [-here then are faces!-] {+lo! such faces!+}
BB p278	4459	Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ide- ality,
BB p278	4460	The spiritual prescient face—the always welcome, common, benevolent face,
BB p278	4461	The face of the singing of music—the grand faces of natural lawyers and judges, broad at the back- top,
BB p278	4462	The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows —the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citizens,
BB p278	4463	The pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face,
BB p278	4464	The ugly face of some beautiful Soul, the handsome detested or despised face,
BB p278	4465	The sacred faces of infants, the illuminated face of the mother of many children,
BB p278	4466	The face of an amour, the face of veneration,
BB p278	4467	The face as of a dream, the face of an immobile rock,
BB p278	4468	The face withdrawn of its good and bad, a castrated face,
BB p278	4469	A wild hawk, his wings clipped by the clipper,
BB p278	4470	A stallion that yielded at last to the thongs and knife of the gelder.
BB p279	4471	Sauntering < [-the-] > pavement, or crossing the ceaseless ferry, [-here then are faces [-,-] {+;+} -]{+[-—such-]{+faces &+} faces!+}
BB p279	4472	I see them and complain not, and am content with all.
BB p279	4473	Do you suppose I could be content with all; if I thought them their own finale?
BB p279	4474	This now is too lamentable a face for a man,
BB p279	4475	Some abject louse, asking leave to be—cringing for it,
BB p279	4476	Some milk-nosed maggot, blessing what lets it wrig to its hole.
BB p279	4477	This face is a dog's snout [-sniffling-] {+sniffing+} for garbage;
BB p279	4478	Snakes nest in that mouth—I hear the sibilant threat.
BB p279	4479	This face is a haze more chill than the arctic sea,
BB p279	4480	Its sleepy and wobbling icebergs crunch as they go.
BB p279	4481	This is a face of bitter herbs—this an emetic—they need no label [-,-] {+;+}
BB p279	4482	And more of the drug-shelf, laudanum, caoutchouc, or hog's-lard.
BB p279	4483	This face is an epilepsy, its wordless tongue gives out the unearthly cry,
BB p279	4484	Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites,
BB p279	4485	Its teeth grit, the palms of the hands are cut by the turned-in nails [-,-] {+;+}
BB p279	4486	The man falls struggling and foaming to the ground while he speculates well.
BB p279	4487	This face is bitten by vermin and worms,
BB p279	4488	And this is some murderer's knife with a half-pulled scabbard.
BB p280	4489	This face owes to the sexton his dismalest fee,
BB p280	4490	In unceasing death-bell tolls there.
BB p280	4491	Those then are really men—the bosses and tufts of the great round globe!
BB p280	4492	Features of my equals, would you trick me with your < [-creased and-] > cadaverous march?
BB p280	4493	Well, you cannot trick me.
BB p280	4494	I see your rounded {+and+} never-erased flow,
BB p280	4495	I see neath the rims of your haggard and mean dis- guises.
BB p280	4496	Splay and twist as you like—poke with the tangling fores of fishes or rats [-,-] {+;+}
BB p280	4497	You'll be unmuzzled, you certainly will.
BB p280	4498	I saw the face of the most smeared and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum,
BB p280	4499	And I knew for my consolation what they knew not [-,-] {+;+}
BB p280	4500	[-And-] [- {+And+} -] I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother,
BB p280	4501	The same wait to clear the rubbish from the fallen tenement [-,-] {+;+}
BB p280	4502	And I shall look again in a score or two of ages,
BB p280	4503	And I shall meet the real landlord, perfect and un- harmed, every inch as good as myself.
BB p280	4504	The Lord advances, and yet advances [-,-] {+;+}
BB p280	4505	Always the shadow in front—always the reached hand bringing up the laggards.
BB p280	4506	Out of this face emerge banners and horses—O superb! I see what is coming,
BB p281	4507	I see the high pioneer-caps—I see the staves of runners clearing the way,
BB p281	4508	I hear victorious drums.
BB p281	4509	This face is a life-boat [-,-] {+;+}
BB p281	4510	This is the face commanding and bearded, it asks no odds of the rest [-,-] {+;+}
BB p281	4511	This face is flavored fruit, ready for eating [-,-] {+;+}
BB p281	4512	This face of a healthy honest boy is the program[-me-] of all good.
BB p281	4513	These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake,
BB p281	4514	They show their descent from the Master himself.
BB p281	4515	Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific,
BB p281	4516	In each house is the ovum—it comes forth after a thousand years.
BB p281	4517	Spots or cracks at the windows do not disturb me,
BB p281	4518	Tall and sufficient stand behind, and make signs to me,
BB p281	4519	I read the promise, and patiently wait.
BB p281	4520	This is a full-grown lily's face,
BB p281	4521	She speaks to the limber-hipp'd man near the garden pickets,
BB p281	4522	Come here, she blushingly cries—Come nigh to me, limber-hipp'd man, [- and give me your finger and thumb, -]
BB p281	4523	Stand at my side till I lean as high as I can upon you,
BB p281	4524	Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me,
BB p281	4525	Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my breast and shoulders.
BB p282	4526	The old face of the mother of many children!
BB p282	4527	Whist! I am fully content.
BB p282	4528	Lull [-e-] {+'+} d and late is the smoke of the First Day morning,
BB p282	4529	It hangs low over the rows of trees by the fences,
BB p282	4530	It hangs thin by the sassafras, the wild-cherry, and the cat-brier under them.
BB p282	4531	I saw the rich ladies in full dress at the soiree,
BB p282	4532	I heard what the singers were singing so long,
BB p282	4533	Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue.
BB p282	4534	Behold a woman!
BB p282	4535	She looks out from her quaker cap—her face is clearer and more beautiful than the sky.
BB p282	4536	She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house,
BB p282	4537	The sun just shines on her old white head.
BB p282	4538	Her ample gown is of cream-hued linen,
BB p282	4539	Her grand-sons raised the flax, and her grand- daughters spun it with the distaff and the wheel.
BB p282	4540	The melodious character of the earth,
BB p282	4541	The finish beyond which philosophy cannot go, and does not wish to go,
BB p282	4542	The justified mother of men.
BB p283	4543	SUDDENLY out of its stale and drowsy lair, the lair of slaves,
BB p283	4544	Like lightning it le'pt forth, half startled at itself,
BB p283	4545	Its feet upon the ashes and the rags—its hands tight to the throats of kings.
BB p283	4546	< [-O-] > [- {+Ah!+} -] hope and faith!
BB p283	4547	< [-O-] > [- {+Ah!+} -] aching close of exiled patriots' lives!
BB p283	4548	< [-O-] > [- {+Ah!+} -] many a sickened heart!
BB p283	4549	Turn back unto this day, and make yourselves afresh.
BB p283	4550	And you, paid to defile the People! you liars, mark!
BB p283	4551	Not for numberless agonies, murders, lusts,
BB p283	4552	For court thieving in its manifold mean forms, worm- ing from his simplicity the poor man's wages,
BB p283	4553	For many a promise sworn by royal lips, and broken, and laughed at in the breaking,
BB p283	4554	Then in their power, not for all these did the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall;
BB p283	4555	The People scorned the ferocity of kings.
BB p283	4556	But the sweetness of mercy brew [-e-] {+'+} d bitter destruction, and the frightened rulers come back [-,-] {+;+}
BB p284	4557	Each comes in state with his train—hangman, priest, tax-gatherer,
BB p284	4558	Soldier, lawyer, lords, jailers, and sycophants.
BB p284	4559	Yet behind all, hovering, stealing—lo, a Shape,
BB p284	4560	Vague as the night, draped interminably, head{+,+} front and form, in scarlet folds,
BB p284	4561	Whose face and eyes none may see,
BB p284	4562	Out of its robes only this—the red robes, lifted by the arm,
BB p284	4563	One finger crook'd, pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
BB p284	4564	Meanwhile, corpses lie in new-made graves—bloody corpses of young men;
BB p284	4565	The rope of the gibbet hangs heavily, the bullets of princes are flying, the creatures of power laugh aloud,
BB p284	4566	And all these things bear fruits—and they are good.
BB p284	4567	Those corpses of young men,
BB p284	4568	Those martyrs that hang from the gibbets—those hearts pierced by the gray lead,
BB p284	4569	Cold and motionless as they seem, live elsewhere with unslaughter'd vitality.
BB p284	4570	They live in other young men, O kings!
BB p284	4571	They live in brothers, again ready to defy you!
BB p284	4572	They were purified by death—they were taught and exalted.
BB p284	4573	Not a grave of the murder [-e-] {+'+} d for freedom, but grows seed for freedom, in its turn to bear seed,
BB p284	4574	Which the winds carry afar and re-sow, and the rains and the snows nourish.
BB p285	4575	Not a disembodied spirit can the weapons of tyrants let loose,
BB p285	4576	But it stalks invisibly over the earth, whispering, counselling, cautioning.
BB p285	4577	Liberty! let others despair of you!{+—+}I never despair of you.
BB p285	4578	Is the house shut? Is the master away?
BB p285	4579	Nevertheless be ready—be not weary of watching,
BB p285	4580	He will soon return—his messengers come anon.
BB p286	4581	OF Public Opinion,
BB p286	4582	Of a calm and cool fiat, sooner or later, (How im- passive! How certain and final!)
BB p286	4583	Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the people say at last?
BB p286	4584	Of the frivolous Judge—Of the corrupt Congressman, Governor, Mayor—Of such as these, standing helpless and exposed;
BB p286	4585	Of the mumbling and screaming priest—(soon, soon deserted;)
BB p286	4586	Of the lessening, year by year, of venerableness, and of the dicta of officers, statutes, pulpits, schools,
BB p286	4587	Of the rising forever taller and stronger and broader, of the intuitions of men and women, and of self- esteem, and of personality;
BB p286	4588	Of the New World—Of the Democracies, resplendent, en-masse,
BB p286	4589	Of the conformity of politics, armies, navies, to them and to me,
BB p286	4590	Of the shining sun by them—Of the inherent light, greater than the rest,
BB p286	4591	Of the envelopment of all by them, and of the effusion of all from them.
BB p287	4592	TO the garden, the world, anew ascending,
BB p287	4593	Potent mates, [- {+or these my +} -]daughters, sons, preluding,
BB p287	4594	The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being,
BB p287	4595	Curious, here behold my resurrection, after slumber,
BB p287	4596	The revolving cycles, in their wide sweep, having brought me again,
BB p287	4597	Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all won- drous,
BB p287	4598	My limbs, and the quivering fire that ever plays
BB p287	4599	through them, for reasons, most wondrous;
BB p287	4600	Existing, I peer and penetrate still,
BB p287	4601	Content with the present—content with the past,
BB p287	4602	By my side, or back of me, Eve following,
BB p287	4603	Or in front, and I following her just the same.
BB p288	4604	From pent‑up aching rivers
BB p288	4605	FROM that of myself, without which I were nothing,
BB p288	4606	From what I am determined to make illustrious, even if I stand sole among men,
BB p288	4607	From my own voice resonant—singing the phallus,
BB p288	4608	Singing the song of procreation,
BB p288	4609	Singing the need of superb children, and therein superb grown people,
BB p288	4610	Singing the muscular urge and the blending,
BB p288	4611	Singing the bedfellow's song, (O resistless yearning!
BB p288	4612	O for any and each, the body correlative attracting!
BB p288	4613	O for you, whoever you are, [-your correlative body!-] O it, more than all else, you delighting!)
BB p288	4614	[-{+—+}From the pent up rivers of myself,-]
BB p288	4615	{+—+}From the hungry gnaw that eats me night and day,
BB p288	4616	From native moments—from bashful pains— sing- ing them,
BB p288	4617	Singing something yet unfound, though I have dili- gently sought it, [-ten thousand-] {+many a long+} year[-s-],
BB p288	4618	Singing the true song of the Soul, fitful, at random,
BB p288	4619	Singing what, to the Soul, entirely redeemed her, the faithful one, {+even+} the prostitute, who detained me when I went to the city,
BB p288	4620	Singing the song of prostitutes;
BB p288	4621	Renascent with grossest Nature, or among animals,
BB p288	4622	Of that—of them, and what goes with them, my poems informing,
BB p288	4623	Of the smell of apples and lemons—of the pairing of birds,
BB p288	4624	Of the wet of woods—of the lapping of waves,
BB p289	4625	Of the mad pushes of waves upon the land—I them chanting,
BB p289	4626	The overture lightly sounding—the strain antici- pating,
BB p289	4627	The welcome nearness—the sight of the perfect body,
BB p289	4628	The swimmer swimming naked in the bath, or mo- tionless on his back lying and floating,
BB p289	4629	The female form approaching—I, pensive, love-flesh tremulous, aching;
BB p289	4630	The slave's body for sale—I, sternly, with harsh voice, auctioneering,
BB p289	4631	The divine list, for myself or you, or for any one, making,
BB p289	4632	The face—the limbs—the index from head to foot, and what it arouses,
BB p289	4633	The mystic deliria—the madness amorous—the utter abandonment,
BB p289	4634	(Hark, close and still, what I now whisper to you,
BB p289	4635	{+I love you+}—O you entirely possess me,
BB p289	4636	O I wish that you and I escape from the rest, and go utterly off—O free and lawless,
BB p289	4637	Two hawks in the air—two fishes swimming in the sea{+,+} not more lawless than we;)
BB p289	4638	The furious storm through me careering—I passion- ately trembling,
BB p289	4639	The oath of the [-inseparableness of-] two together—of the woman that loves me, and whom I love more than my life— [-T-] {+t+} hat oath swearing,
BB p289	4640	(O I willingly stake all, {+for you+}!
BB p289	4641	O let me be lost, if it must be so!
BB p289	4642	O you and I—what is it to us what the rest do or think?
BB p290	4643	What is all else to us? only that we enjoy each other, and exhaust each other, if it must be so;)
BB p290	4644	From the master—the pilot I yield the vessel to,
BB p290	4645	The general commanding me, commanding all—from him permission taking,
BB p290	4646	From time the program[-me-] hastening, (I have loiter [-e-] {+'+} d too long, as it is;)
BB p290	4647	From sex—From the warp and from the woof,
BB p290	4648	(To talk to the perfect girl who understands{+,+} [-me{+,+}-][-—the girl of The States,-]
BB p290	4649	To waft to her these from my own lips—to effuse them from my own body;)
BB p290	4650	From privacy—From frequent repinings alone,
BB p290	4651	From plenty of persons near, and yet the right person not near,
BB p290	4652	From the soft sliding of hands over me, and thrusting of fingers through my hair and beard,
BB p290	4653	From the long-sustain [-e-] {+'+} d kiss upon the mouth or bosom,
BB p290	4654	From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting with excess,
BB p290	4655	From what the divine husband knows—from the work of fatherhood,
BB p290	4656	From exultation, victory, and relief—from the bed- fellow's embrace in the night,
BB p290	4657	From the [-act--]poems of eyes, hands, hips, and bosoms,
BB p290	4658	From the cling of the trembling arm,
BB p290	4659	From the bending curve and the clinch,
BB p290	4660	From side by side, the pliant coverlid off {+‑+}throwing,
BB p290	4661	From the one so unwilling to have me leave—and me just as unwilling to leave,
BB p290	4662	(Yet a moment, O tender waiter, and I return,)
BB p290	4663	From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
BB p291	4664	From the night, a moment, I, emerging, flitting out,
BB p291	4665	Celebrate you, {+act divine—and you+} < [-enfans-] > [- {+daughters+} -] [- {+children+} -] [- {+children+} -] prepared for,
BB p291	4666	And you, stalwart loins.
BB p291	4667	I sing the body electric, [-with love-]
BB p291	4668	[-O MY children! O mates!-]
BB p291	4669	[-O the bodies of you, and of all men and women,-] * ☟ [- {+The [-bodies-] {+armies+} of those I love+} -] {+* The [-army-] {+armies+} of those I love engirth me & I engirth them.+} engirth me, [- {+their bodies engirth me,+} -] and I engirth them,
BB p291	4670	[-O-] they will not let me off, [-nor I them,-] till I go with them, respond to them,
BB p291	4671	And [-respond to the contact of them, and-] discorrupt them, {+¶+}and charge them {+full+} with the charge of the Soul.
BB p291	4672	Was it doubted if those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
BB p291	4673	And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
BB p291	4674	And if the body does not do as much as the Soul?
BB p291	4675	And if the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?
BB p291	4676	The love of the body of man or woman balks account —the body itself balks account,
BB p291	4677	That of the male is perfect, and that of the female is perfect.
BB p291	4678	The expression of the face balks account,
BB p291	4679	But the expression of a well made man appears not only in his face,
BB p292	4680	It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
BB p292	4681	It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees—dress does not hide him,
BB p292	4682	The strong, sweet, supple quality he has, strikes through the cotton and flannel,
BB p292	4683	To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
BB p292	4684	You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.
BB p292	4685	The 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,
BB p292	4686	The swimmer naked in the swimming bath, seen as he swims through the transparent green-shine, [-or-] {+¶ As he+} lies with his face up, and rolls silently to and fro in the heave of the water [-,-] {+;+}
BB p292	4687	The bending forward and backward of rowers in row- boats—the horseman in his saddle,
BB p292	4688	Girls, mothers, house-keepers, in all their perform- ances,
BB p292	4689	The group of laborers seated at noon-time with their open dinner-kettles, and their wives waiting,
BB p292	4690	The female soothing a child—the farmer's daughter in the garden or cow-yard,
BB p292	4691	The young fellow hoeing corn—the sleigh-driver guiding his six horses through the crowd,
BB p292	4692	The wrestle of wrestlers, two apprentice-boys, quite grown, lusty, good-natured, {+¶+} native-born, out on the vacant lot at sun-down, after work,
BB p293	4693	The coats and caps thrown down, the embrace of love and resistance,
BB p293	4694	The upper-hold and under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes;
BB p293	4695	The march of firemen [-in their own costumes-], the play of masculine muscle through clean-setting trousers and waist-straps,
BB p293	4696	The slow return from the fire, the pause when the bell strikes suddenly again, [-and-] {+¶+} the listening on the alert,{+—+}
BB p293	4697	The natural, perfect, varied attitudes—{+¶+}the bent head, the curved neck, and the counting,
BB p293	4698	Such-like I love—I loosen myself, pass freely, am at the mother's breast with the little child,
BB p293	4699	Swim with the swimmers, wrestle with wrestlers, {+¶+} [-m-] {+M+} arch in line with the firemen, [-and-] pause, listen, and count.
BB p293	4700	I knew [-a man,-]
BB p293	4701	[-He was-] a common farmer—[-he was-] the father of five sons,
BB p293	4702	And in them [-were-] the fathers of sons—and in them [-were-] the fathers of sons.
BB p293	4703	This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of person,
BB p293	4704	The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, {+¶+}the pale yellow and white of his hair and beard, [-and-] {+¶+} the immeasurable meaning of his black eyes, {+as they beam'd forth,+}
BB p293	4705	These I used to go and visit him to see—he was wise also [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4706	He was six feet tall [-,-] {+—+} he was over eighty years old[-—-] {+¶+} [-h-] {+H+} is sons were massive, clean, bearded, tan-faced, {+and+} handsome [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4707	They and his daughters loved him—all who saw him loved him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4708	They did not love [-him-] by allowance—they loved him with personal love;
BB p294	4709	{+—+}He drank water only—the blood show [-e-] {+'+} d like scarlet through the clear-brown skin of his face [-,-] [- {+—+} -] {+;+}
BB p294	4710	He was a frequent gunner and fisher—he sailed 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;
BB p294	4711	{+—+}When 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 [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4712	You 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 [- {+personally+} -] each other.
BB p294	4713	I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4714	To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4715	To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough [-,-] {+;+}
BB p294	4716	To {+personally+} [-pass among them, or-] touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then?
BB p294	4717	I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.
BB p295	4718	There 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 [-,-] {+;+}
BB p295	4719	All things please the Soul—but these please the Soul well.
BB p295	4720	This is the female form,
BB p295	4721	A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
BB p295	4722	It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
BB p295	4723	I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor [-—-] {+¶+} all falls aside but myself and it [-,-] {+;+}
BB p295	4724	Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, the atmosphere and the clouds, {+¶+}[-and-] what was expected of heaven or feared of hell, are now consumed [-,-] {+;+}
BB p295	4725	Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots [-out of it,-] {+—+} play the response likewise ungovernable [-,-] {+;+}
BB p295	4726	Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands, all diffused—mine too diffused [-,-] {+;+}
BB p295	4727	Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb— love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
BB p295	4728	Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, {+¶+} [-q-] {+Q+} uivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
BB p295	4729	Bridegroom-night of love, working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn [-,-] {+;+}
BB p295	4730	Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
BB p295	4731	Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-fleshed day.
BB p295	4732	[-This-] {+Such+} is the nucleus—after the child is born of woman, the man is born of woman [-,-] {+;+}
BB p296	4733	[-This-] {+Such+} is the bath of birth— [-this is-] {+such+} the merge of small and large, and the outlet again.
BB p296	4734	Be not ashamed, women—your privilege encloses the rest, and is the exit of the rest,
BB p296	4735	You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the Soul.
BB p296	4736	The female contains all qualities, and tempers them {+¶+}— [-s-] {+S+} he is in her place, [-and moves-] {+moving+} with perfect balance [-,-] {+;+}
BB p296	4737	She is all things duly veiled—she is both passive and active,
BB p296	4738	[-She is-] to conceive daughters as well as sons, and sons as well as daughters.
BB p296	4739	As I see my Soul reflected in nature,
BB p296	4740	As I see through a mist, one with inexpressible com- pleteness and beauty,
BB p296	4741	See the bent head and arms folded over the breast— the female I see.
BB p296	4742	The male is not less the Soul, nor more—he too is in his place [-,-] {+;+}
BB p296	4743	He too is all qualities—he is action and power [-,-] {+;+}
BB p296	4744	The flush of the known universe is in him [-,-] {+;+}
BB p296	4745	Scorn becomes him well, and appetite and defiance become him well [-,-] {+;+}
BB p296	4746	The [-wildest largest-] passions, bliss that is utmost, sorrow [-that is-] {+the+} utmost, become him well—pride is for him,
BB p296	4747	The full-spread pride of man is calming and excellent to [-the-] {+my+} Soul [-;-] {+.+}
BB p297	4748	Knowledge becomes him—he likes it always—he brings everything to the test of himself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p297	4749	Whatever the survey, whatever the sea and the sail, he strikes soundings at last only here [-,-] {+;+}
BB p297	4750	{+(+}Where else does he strike soundings, except here?{+)+}
BB p297	4751	The man's body is sacred, and the woman's body is sacred,
BB p297	4752	No matter who it is, {+I say+}it is sacred;
BB p297	4753	Is it a slave? Is it one of the dull-faced immigrants just landed on the wharf?
BB p297	4754	Each belongs here or anywhere just as much as the well-off—just as much as you,
BB p297	4755	Each has his or her place in the procession.
BB p297	4756	All is a procession [-,-] [- {+—through Time,+} -] {+([- {+lo!+} -]the pageant is moving through Time,)+}
BB p297	4757	The universe is a procession, with measured and beautiful motion.
BB p297	4758	Do you know so much yourself, that you call the slave or the dull-face ignorant?
BB p297	4759	Do you suppose you have a right to a good sight, and he or she has no right to a sight?
BB p297	4760	Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float [-—-] {+¶+} and the soil is on the surface, and water runs, and vegetation sprouts,
BB p297	4761	For you only, and not for him and her?
BB p297	4762	A man's [-b-] {+B+} ody at auction!
BB p297	4763	I help the auctioneer—{+(+}[- {+I talk to+} -] the sloven does not half know his business.{+)+}
BB p297	4764	Gentlemen, look on this wonder!
BB p297	4765	Whatever the bids of the bidders, they cannot be high enough for it [-,-] {+;+}
BB p298	4766	For it the globe lay preparing quintillions of years, without one animal or plant,
BB p298	4767	For it the revolving cycles truly and steadily roll [-e-] {+'+} d.
BB p298	4768	[-In this head the all-baffling brain,-]
BB p298	4769	In it [-and below it, the making of-] the attributes of {+the+} heroes[-.-] {+that [-only-] poets understand.+}
BB p298	4770	Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve,
BB p298	4771	They shall be stript, that you may see them.
BB p298	4772	Exquisite senses, life-lit eyes, pluck, volition,
BB p298	4773	Flakes of breast-muscle, pliant back-bone and neck, flesh not flabby, good-sized arms and legs,
BB p298	4774	And wonders within there yet.
BB p298	4775	Within there runs blood,
BB p298	4776	The same old blood!
BB p298	4777	The same red-running blood!
BB p298	4778	There swells and jets a heart—there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations [-,-] {+;+}
BB p298	4779	Do you think they are not there because they are [-not expressed-] {+dumb+} in {+the+} parlors and lecture-rooms?
BB p298	4780	This is not only one man—this is the father of those who shall be fathers in their turns [-,-] {+;+}
BB p298	4781	In him the start of populous states and rich republics [-,-] {+;+}
BB p298	4782	Of him countless immortal lives, with countless em- bodiments and enjoyments.
BB p298	4783	How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries?
BB p299	4784	Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?
BB p299	4785	A woman's [-b-] {+B+} ody at auction!
BB p299	4786	She too is not only herself—she is the teeming mother of mothers,
BB p299	4787	She is the bearer of them that shall grow and be mates to the mothers.
BB p299	4788	Her daughters, [-or their daughters' daughters—-] {+and theirs again—+} who knows who shall mate with them?
BB p299	4789	Who knows through the centuries what heroes may come from them?
BB p299	4790	In them, and of them, [-natal-] love [-—-] {+¶+} in them that divine mystery, the same old beautiful mystery.
BB p299	4791	Have you ever loved the [-b-] {+B+} ody of a woman?
BB p299	4792	Have you ever loved the [-b-] {+B+} ody of a man?
BB p299	4793	[-Your father—where is your father?-]
BB p299	4794	Your mother—is she living? have you been much with her? and has she been much with you?
BB p299	4795	Do you not see that th [-o-] {+o+} se are exactly the same to all, in all nations and times, all over the earth?
BB p299	4796	If any thing is sacred, [-the human body is-] {+[-that-] those are+} sacred,
BB p299	4797	And the glory and sweet of a man, is the token of manhood untainted,
BB p299	4798	And in man or woman, a clean, strong, firm-fibred [-b-] {+B+} ody, is beautiful as the most beautiful face.
BB p299	4799	Have you seen the fool that corrupted his own live [-b-] {+B+} ody? or the fool that corrupted her own live [-b-] {+B+} ody?
BB p300	4800	For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot con- ceal themselves.
BB p300	4801	O my [-b-] {+B+} ody! {+(my Soul's identity!)+} {+¶+}I dare not desert the likes of you [-in other men and women,-] < [-nor the likes of the parts of you; -] >
BB p300	4802	I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the Soul, (and that they are the Soul,) I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my poems—and that they are poems,
BB p300	4803	Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's, young man's, young woman's poems,
BB p300	4804	Head, neck, hair, ears, drop and tympan of the ears,
BB p300	4805	Eyes, eye-fringes, iris of the eye, eye-brows, and the waking or sleeping of the lids,
BB p300	4806	Mouth, tongue, lips, teeth, roof of the mouth, jaws, and the jaw-hinges,
BB p300	4807	Nose, nostrils of the nose, and the partition,
BB p300	4808	Cheeks, temples, forehead, chin, throat, back of the neck, neck-slue,
BB p300	4809	Strong shoulders, manly beard, [-scapula, hind-shoul- ders,-] and the ample side-round of the chest,
BB p300	4810	Upper-arm, arm-pit, elbow-socket, lower-arm, arm- sinews, arm-bones,
BB p300	4811	Wrist and wrist-joints, hand, palm, knuckles, thumb, fore-finger, finger-balls, finger-joints, finger-nails,
BB p300	4812	Broad breast-front, curling hair of the breast, breast- bone, breast-side,
BB p300	4813	Ribs, belly, back-bone, joints of the back-bone,
BB p300	4814	Hips, hip-sockets, hip-strength, inward and outward round, man-balls, man-root,
BB p300	4815	Strong set of thighs, well carrying the trunk above,
BB p301	4816	Leg-fibres, knee, knee-pan, upper-leg, under-leg,
BB p301	4817	Ankles, instep, foot-ball, toes, toe-joints, the heel,
BB p301	4818	All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of [-my or your body, or of-] any one's [-b-] {+B+} ody, male or female,
BB p301	4819	The lung-sponges, the stomach-sac, the bowels sweet and clean,
BB p301	4820	The brain in its folds inside the skull-frame,
BB p301	4821	Sympathies, heart-valves, palate-valves, sexuality, ma- ternity,
BB p301	4822	Womanhood, and all that is a woman—and the man that comes from woman,
BB p301	4823	The womb, the teats, nipples, breast-milk, tears, laugh- ter, {+¶+}weeping, love-looks, love-perturbations and risings,
BB p301	4824	The voice, articulation, language, whispering, shout- ing aloud,
BB p301	4825	Food, drink, pulse, digestion, sweat, sleep, walking, swimming,
BB p301	4826	Poise on the hips, leaping, reclining, embracing, arm- curving, and tightening,
BB p301	4827	The continual changes of the flex of the mouth, and around the eyes,
BB p301	4828	The skin, the sun-burnt shade, freckles, hair,
BB p301	4829	The curious sympathy one feels, when feeling with the hand the naked [-meat of his own body, or another person's-] body,
BB p301	4830	The circling rivers, the breath, and breathing it in and out,
BB p301	4831	The beauty of the waist, and thence of the hips, and thence downward toward the knees,
BB p301	4832	The thin red jellies within you, or within me—the bones, and the marrow in the bones,
BB p302	4833	The exquisite realization of health,
BB p302	4834	O I say now these are not the parts and poems of the [-b-] {+B+} ody only, but of the Soul,
BB p302	4835	O I say these are the Soul!
BB p302	4836	A woman america waits for you & for
BB p302	4837	She lacks
BB p302	4838	< [-A WOMAN-] > {+America knows [-—-] {+(+} or shall yet know)+} [-waits for me-]—she contains all, nothing is lacking,
BB p302	4839	Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking {+or the right man lacking.+}[-,-] [-or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.-]
BB p302	4840	[- {+For all+} -]Sex contains {+reciprocates+} all[-,-]
BB p302	4841	{+—+}Bodies, Souls, [- {+¶+} -]meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
BB p302	4842	Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the semitic milk,
BB p302	4843	All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, {+spirit as well as flesh,+}
BB p302	4844	All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,
BB p302	4845	All the governments, judges, gods, followed persons of the earth,
BB p302	4846	These are contained in sex, as parts of itself, and jus- tifications of itself.
BB p302	4847	Without shame the man I like knows and avows the deliciousness of his sex, [- {+& his power of begetting+} -]
BB p302	4848	Without shame the woman I like knows and avows hers.{+)+}
BB p303	4849	[-O I will fetch bully breeds of children yet!-]
BB p303	4850	[- {+O+} -] I [-will-] dismiss myself from impassive women,
BB p303	4851	I [-will-] [-go-] {+come+} stay with [- {+you who are waiting+} -] [-her who waits for me, and with those women that are warm-blooded and suffi- cient for me [- {+America+} -];-]
BB p303	4852	[-I see that they understand me, and do not deny me [- {+f America+} -],-]
BB p303	4853	[-I see that they are worthy of me—I will be the [-robust-] {+new+} husband of those women. -]
BB p303	4854	[-[-They-] {+You+} are not one jot less than I am,-] {+O you {+whom+} America [- -] knows, [-I also known you!-] {+(or soon shall know)+}+}
BB p303	4855	[-They-] {+You+} are tanned in the face by shining suns and blow- ing winds,
BB p303	4856	[-Their-] {+You+} flesh has the old divine suppleness and strength,
BB p303	4857	[-They-] {+You+} know how to swim, row, [-ride, wrestle,-] shoot, run, strike, retreat, [-advance, resist,-] defend [-them- selves-] {+yourself+} ,
BB p303	4858	[-They-] {+You+} are ultimate in [-their-] {+your+} own right— [-they-] {+you+} are calm, clear, well-possessed of [-themselves-] {+yourself+} .
BB p303	4859	I draw you close < [-to me,-] > [- {+clo+} -] [-you women!-] [- {+in you America drawing)+} -]
BB p303	4860	[-I cannot let you go, I would do you good,-]
BB p303	4861	I am for you, and you are for me, not only for our own sake, but for others' sakes;
BB p303	4862	Enveloped in you sleep {+the+} < [-great-] >[-er-] heroes and bards,
BB p303	4863	{+I think+} They refuse to awake at the touch of any [-man-] but me.
BB p303	4864	[-It is I, you women-] [- {+I a[-m -]+} -] {+[-Your-]{+A+} robust husband +} [-—I make my way,-] {+[-and-] I, making my way;+}
BB p303	4865	I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but {+deeply+} I love you [-,-] {+.+}
BB p303	4866	I do not hurt you any more than is necessary for you,
BB p303	4867	I pour the stuff to start sons and daughters fit for These States—I press with slow rude muscle,
BB p303	4868	I brace myself effectually—I listen to no entreaties,
BB p304	4869	I dare not withdraw till I deposit what has so long accumulated within me.
BB p304	4870	Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
BB p304	4871	In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
BB p304	4872	On you I graft the grafts of the [-best-beloved of me and-] [- {+future+} -] {+the race of the west,+} of [-America,-] [- {+and the strongest,+} -]
BB p304	4873	[-The drops I distil upon you shall-] {+From me shall you+} < [-grow-] > fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
BB p304	4874	{+so+} , for terms.
BB p304	4875	The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
BB p304	4876	I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
BB p304	4877	I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
BB p304	4878	I shall count on the fruits of [-the gushing showers of-] [- {+you &+} -]them, as I count on the fruits [-of the-] [-gushing-] < [-[-showers-] I [-give-] [- {+ott+} -] [-now,-]-] > {+I vouchsafe now+}
BB p304	4879	I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
BB p304	4880	[- {+ +} -]SPONTANEOUS me, < [-Nature,-] >
BB p304	4881	The loving day, {+the mounting sun,+} the friend I am happy with,
BB p304	4882	The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder,
BB p304	4883	The hill-side whitened with blossoms of the mountain ash,
BB p304	4884	The same, late in autumn—the gorgeous hues of [-red,-] {+deep+} yellow, {+red+} {+with+} drab, purple, and light and dark green,
BB p305	4885	The rich coverlid of the grass—animals and birds— {+¶+}the private untrimmed bank—the primitive apples —the pebble-stones,
BB p305	4886	Beautiful dripping fragments—the negligent list of one after another, as I happen to call them to me, or think of them,
BB p305	4887	The real poems, (what we call poems being merely pictures,)
BB p305	4888	The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me,
BB p305	4889	This poem, drooping shy and unseen, that I always carry, and that all men carry,
BB p305	4890	(Know, once for all, avowed on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty, lurking, masculine, poems,)
BB p305	4891	Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love-yielding, love- climbers, and the climbing sap,
BB p305	4892	Arms and hands of love—lips of love—phallic thumb of love [-—-] {+¶+} breasts of love—bellies pressed and glued together with love,
BB p305	4893	Earth of chaste love—life that is only life after love,
BB p305	4894	The body of my love—the body of the woman I love [-—-] {+¶+} the body of the man—the body of the earth,
BB p305	4895	Soft forenoon airs that blow from the south-west,
BB p305	4896	The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] that gripes the full-grown lady-flower, {+¶+} [-c-] {+C+} urves upon her with amorous firm legs[- {+¶+} -], takes his will of her, [- {+¶+} -]and holds himself tremulous and tight upon her till he is satisfied [-,-] {+;+}
BB p305	4897	The wet of woods through the early hours,
BB p306	4898	Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, {+¶+}one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other,
BB p306	4899	The smell of apples, aromas from crushed sage-plant, mint, birch-bark,
BB p306	4900	The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he con- fides to me what he was dreaming,
BB p306	4901	The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl, and falling still and content to the ground,
BB p306	4902	The no-formed stings that sights, people, objects, sting me with,
BB p306	4903	The hubbed sting of myself, stinging me as much as it ever can any one,
BB p306	4904	The sensitive, orbic, underlapped brothers, that only {+the+} privileged [-feelers-] may be intimate where they are,
BB p306	4905	The curious roamer, the hand, roaming all over the body [-—-] {+¶+} the bashful withdrawing of flesh where the fingers soothingly pause and edge themselves,
BB p306	4906	The limpid liquid within the young man,
BB p306	4907	The vexed corrosion, so pensive and so painful,
BB p306	4908	The torment—the irritable tide that will not be at rest,
BB p306	4909	The like of the same [-I-] {+you+} feel—the like of the same in others,
BB p306	4910	The young woman that flushes and flushes, and the young man that flushes and flushes,
BB p306	4911	The young man that wakes, deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him {+¶+} {+The amorous night+} the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats,
BB p306	4912	The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers [-—-] {+¶+} the young man all colored, red, ashamed, angry;
BB p307	4913	The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked,
BB p307	4914	The merriment of the twin-babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, {+¶+}the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them,
BB p307	4915	The walnut-trunk, the walnut-husks, and the ripening or ripened long-round walnuts,
BB p307	4916	The continence of vegetables, birds, animals,
BB p307	4917	The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent,{+¶+} while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent,
BB p307	4918	The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity,
BB p307	4919	The oath of procreation I have sworn—my Adamic and fresh daughters,
BB p307	4920	The 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,
BB p307	4921	The wholesome relief, repose, content,
BB p307	4922	And this bunch plucked at random from myself,
BB p307	4923	It has done its work—I toss it carelessly to fall where it may.
BB p307	4924	[-O an-] [- {+One+} -] [- {+O an+} -] {+One+} hour [-to-] [- {+for+} -] {+to+} madness and joy!
BB p307	4925	{+(+}O FURIOUS! O confine me not!
BB p307	4926	[-(-]What is this that frees me so in storms?
BB p307	4927	What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
BB p308	4928	O to drink the mystic deliria deeper than any other man!
BB p308	4929	O savage and tender achings!
BB p308	4930	(I bequeath them to you, my children,
BB p308	4931	I tell them to you, for reasons, O bridegroom and bride.)
BB p308	4932	O to be yielded to you, whoever you are, and you to be yielded me, in defiance of the world!
BB p308	4933	(Know, I am a man, attracting, at any time, [-her-] {+the one+} I but look upon, or touch with the tips of my fingers,
BB p308	4934	Or that touches my face, or leans against me.)
BB p308	4935	O to return to Paradise! {+O [- -] bashful and feminine!+}
BB p308	4936	O to draw you to me—to plant on you, for the first time, the lips of a determined man!
BB p308	4937	O rich and feminine! O to show you to realize the blood of life for yourself, whoever you are—and no matter when and where you live.
BB p308	4938	O the puzzle—the thrice-tied knot—the deep and dark pool! O all untied and illumined!
BB p308	4939	O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!
BB p308	4940	O to be absolved from previous [-follies and degrada- tions -] {+ties & conventions+} —I from mine, and you from yours!
BB p308	4941	O to find a new unthought-of nonchalance with the best of nature!
BB p308	4942	O to have the gag removed from one's mouth!
BB p308	4943	O to have the feeling, to-day or any day, I am suffi- cient as I am!
BB p308	4944	O something unproved! something in a trance!
BB p308	4945	O madness amorous! O trembling!
BB p309	4946	O to escape utterly from others' anchors and holds!
BB p309	4947	To drive free! to love free! to dash reckless and dangerous!
BB p309	4948	To court destruction with taunts—with invitations!
BB p309	4949	To ascend—to leap to the heavens of the love indicated to me!
BB p309	4950	To rise thither with my inebriate Soul!
BB p309	4951	To be lost, if it must be so!
BB p309	4952	To feed the remainder of life with one hour of ful- ness and freedom!
BB p309	4953	With one brief hour of madness and joy.
BB p309	4954	We two—how long we were fool'd!
BB p309	4955	YOU and I—what the earth is, we are,
BB p309	4956	We two—how long we were fooled!
BB p309	4957	< [-Now-] > [-delicious,-] transmuted, {+we+} swiftly [-we-] escape, as Nature escapes,
BB p309	4958	[- {+ +} -] [- {+For+} -] We are Nature—long have we been absent, but now we return,
BB p309	4959	We become plants, leaves, foliage, roots, bark,
BB p309	4960	We are bedded in the ground—we are rocks,
BB p309	4961	We are oaks—we grow in the openings side by side,
BB p309	4962	We browse—we are two among the wild herds, spontaneous as any,
BB p309	4963	We are two fishes swimming in the sea together,
BB p309	4964	We are what the locust blossoms are—we drop scent
BB p309	4965	around the lanes, mornings and evenings,
BB p309	4966	We are also the coarse smut of beasts, vegetables, minerals,
BB p310	4967	We are what the flowing wet of the Tennessee is— {+¶+}we are two peaks of the Blue Mountains, rising up in Virginia,
BB p310	4968	We are two predatory hawks—we soar above and look down,{+—we are as two comets+}
BB p310	4969	We are two resplendent suns—we it is who balance ourselves orbic and stellar [-—-] {+¶+} [-we are as two comets; -]
BB p310	4970	We prowl fanged and four-footed in the woods—we spring on prey;
BB p310	4971	We are two clouds, forenoons and afternoons, driving overhead,
BB p310	4972	We are seas mingling [-—-] {+¶+} we are two of those cheerful waves, rolling over each other, and interwetting each other,
BB p310	4973	We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious,
BB p310	4974	We are snow, rain, cold, darkness—we are each product and influence of the globe,
BB p310	4975	We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again—we two have,
BB p310	4976	We have voided all but freedom, and all but our own joy.
BB p310	4977	NATIVE moments! when you come upon me—Ah you are here now!
BB p310	4978	Give me now libidinous joys only!
BB p310	4979	Give me the drench of my passions! Give me life coarse and rank!
BB p310	4980	To-day, I go consort with nature's darlings—to-night too,
BB p311	4981	I am for those who believe in loose delights—I share the midnight orgies of young men,
BB p311	4982	I dance with the dancers, and drink with the drink- ers,
BB p311	4983	The echoes ring with our indecent calls,
BB p311	4984	I take for my love some prostitute—I pick out some low person for my dearest friend,
BB p311	4985	He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemned by others for deeds done;
BB p311	4986	I will play a part no longer—Why should I exile myself from my companions?
BB p311	4987	O you shunn [-e-] {+'+} d persons! I at least do not shun you,
BB p311	4988	I come forthwith in your midst—I will be your poet,
BB p311	4989	I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
BB p311	4990	ONCE I passed through a populous city, {+¶+}imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec- ture, customs, and traditions [-;-]
BB p311	4991	[-Yet now,-] [- {+And+} -] {+But+} {+years, years have elaps [-e-] {+'+} d,+} of all that city, I {+now+} remember only a woman I [-casually-] met there, who detained me for love of me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p311	4992	Day by day and night by night we were together,— All else has long been forgotten [-by me-] [-,-] {+;+}
BB p311	4993	I remember I say only that woman who passionately clung to me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p311	4994	Again we wander—we love—we separate again,
BB p311	4995	Again she holds me by the hand—I must not go!
BB p311	4996	I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous.
BB p312	4997	[-Looking-] {+Facing+} west from California's shore,
BB p312	4998	INQUIRING, tireless, seeking [-that-] {+what is+} yet unfound,
BB p312	4999	I, a child, very old, over waves, toward the house of maternity, the land of migrations, [-look-] {+glance+} afar,
BB p312	5000	< [-Look off the shores of my Western Sea—[-having arrived at last where I am-]—the circle almost circled[-;-]-] > [- {+ circle+} -] {+;+}
BB p312	5001	For [-coming-] [- {+travelling+} -] {+starting+} {+starting+} westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere,
BB p312	5002	From Asia—from the north—from the God, the sage, and the hero,
BB p312	5003	From the south—from the flowery peninsulas, and the spice islands,
BB p312	5004	Long, [-have I-] {+long have I+} wandered— [-almost-] {+nearly+} round the earth having [-I-] wandered, [-the circle almost circled,-]
BB p312	5005	< [-Now-] > [- {+T+} -] I face [-the old-] home again—[-looking over to it,-] [- {+ +} -] {+very pleased & joyous+} joyous, [-as after long travel, growth, and sleep;-] [- {+journeying in a dream {+and much experienced;+};+} -]
BB p312	5006	{+(+}But where is what I started for, so long ago?
BB p312	5007	And why is it yet unfound?{+)+}
BB p312	5008	IN the new garden, in all the parts,
BB p312	5009	In cities now, modern, I wander,{+{+—though ancient, [-and-]+}—[-primitive-] yet,+}
BB p312	5010	Though the second or third result, or still further, primitive yet,
BB p312	5011	Days, places, indifferent—though various, the same,
BB p312	5012	Time, Paradise, the Mannahatta, the prairies, finding me unchanged [-,-] {+.+}
BB p312	5013	Death indifferent—Is it that I lived long since? Was I buried [-very-] long ago?
BB p313	5014	For all that, I may now be watching you here, this moment;
BB p313	5015	[-For the future,-] [- {+Yet alive,+} -] {+For all that, {+an unknown+} something,+} < [-with-] > determined < [-will-] >, I seek{+,+}[-—-][-the woman of the future, -]
BB p313	5016	You, born years, centuries after me, I seek.
BB p313	5017	[-AGES and ages, returning at intervals,-] {+With the {+old, the+} portent orginal+}
BB p313	5018	Undestroyed, wandering immortal,
BB p313	5019	Lusty, phallic, < [-with the potent [-original-] loins,-] > perfectly sweet,
BB p313	5020	I, chanter of Adamic songs,
BB p313	5021	Through the new garden, the West, the great cities, calling,
BB p313	5022	Deliriate, thus prelude what < [-is-] > [- {+I set to be+} -] generated, {+—first+} offering these, offering myself,
BB p313	5023	Bathing myself, bathing my songs in sex,
BB p313	5024	Offspring of my loins.
BB p313	5025	O HYMEN! O hymenee!
BB p313	5026	Why do you tantalize me thus?
BB p313	5027	[-O-] [-w-] {+W+} hy sting me for a swift moment only?
BB p313	5028	Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
BB p313	5029	Is it because, if you continued beyond the swift moment, you would soon certainly kill me?
BB p314	5030	IAM he that aches with love;
BB p314	5031	Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, ach- ing, attract all matter?
BB p314	5032	So the body of me to all I meet, or [-that I-] know.
BB p314	5033	{+As Adam[-ic-],+} EARLY in the morning,
BB p314	5034	Walking forth from the bower, refreshed with sleep,
BB p314	5035	Behold me where I pass—hear my voice—approach,
BB p314	5036	Touch me—touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
BB p314	5037	Be not afraid of my body.
BB p315	5038	AFOOT and light-hearted I take to the open road,
BB p315	5039	Healthy, free, the world before me,
BB p315	5040	The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
BB p315	5041	Light
BB p315	5042	road before
BB p315	5043	.
BB p315	5044	Now afoot the world to roam, and breath the open air
BB p315	5045	Light of heart and free, the endless road before me
BB p315	5046	The long brown < [-path-] > [- {+road+} -] before me, leading [- {+and leading+} -] wherever I choose
BB p315	5047	[-Now afoot the world to roam-] {+Light of heart afoot to roam+}, and breathe the open air,
BB p315	5048	[-Light of heart, and free, and the road spread before me,-]
BB p315	5049	The long brown paths before me, leading wherever I choose.
BB p315	5050	Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I {+myself+} am good- fortune,
BB p315	5051	Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
BB p315	5052	Strong and content, I travel the open road.
BB p315	5053	The earth—that is sufficient,
BB p315	5054	I do not want the constellations any nearer,
BB p315	5055	I know they are very well where they are,
BB p315	5056	I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
BB p315	5057	Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
BB p315	5058	I carry them, men and women—I carry them with me wherever I go,
BB p315	5059	I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
BB p315	5060	I am filled with them, and I will fill them in return.
BB p315	5061	You road I [-travel and look-] {+enter upon, looking+} around! I believe you are not all that is here,
BB p315	5062	I believe that much unseen is also here.
BB p316	5063	Here is the profound lesson of reception, neither preference or denial,
BB p316	5064	The black with his woolly head, the felon, the dis- eased, the illiterate person, are not denied;
BB p316	5065	{+The hearse+} The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beg- gar's tramp, {+¶+}the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
BB p316	5066	The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
BB p316	5067	The early market-man, [-the hearse,-] the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
BB p316	5068	They pass, I also pass, any thing passes—none can be interdicted,
BB p316	5069	None but are accepted, none but are dear to me.
BB p316	5070	You air that serves me with breath to speak!
BB p316	5071	You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
BB p316	5072	You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
BB p316	5073	You animals moving serenely over the earth!
BB p316	5074	You birds that wing yourselves through the air! you insects!
BB p316	5075	You sprouting growths from the farmers' fields! you stalks and weeds by the fences!
BB p316	5076	You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the road- sides!
BB p316	5077	I think you are latent with [-curious-] {+unseen+} existences—you are so dear to me.
BB p316	5078	You flagged walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges!
BB p317	5079	You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships!
BB p317	5080	You rows of houses! you window-pierced façades! you roofs!
BB p317	5081	You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
BB p317	5082	You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much!
BB p317	5083	You doors and ascending steps! you arches!
BB p317	5084	You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trod- den crossings!
BB p317	5085	From all that has been near you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, [- {+¶+} -] and now would impart [-the same secretly-] to me,
BB p317	5086	From the living and the dead I think you have peopled your impassive surfaces, {+¶+} and the spirits thereof would be [-evident and-] amicable with me.
BB p317	5087	The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
BB p317	5088	The picture alive, every part in its best light,
BB p317	5089	The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it was not wanted,
BB p317	5090	The cheerful voice of the public road—the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
BB p317	5091	O highway I travel! O public road! do you say to me, Do not leave me?
BB p317	5092	Do you say, Venture not? If you leave me, you are lost?
BB p317	5093	Do you say, I am already prepared—I am well-beaten and undenied—adhere to me?
BB p317	5094	O public road! I say back, I am not afraid to leave you—yet I love you,
BB p318	5095	You express me better than I can express myself,
BB p318	5096	You shall be more to me than my poem.
BB p318	5097	I think heroic deeds were all conceived in the open air,
BB p318	5098	I think I could stop here myself, and do miracles,
BB p318	5099	I think whatever I meet on the road I shall like, and whoever beholds me shall like me,
BB p318	5100	I think whoever I see must be happy.
BB p318	5101	From this hour, freedom!
BB p318	5102	From this hour I ordain myself loosed of limits and imaginary lines,
BB p318	5103	Going where I list—my own master, total and abso- lute,
BB p318	5104	Listening to others, and considering well what they say,
BB p318	5105	Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
BB p318	5106	Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
BB p318	5107	I inhale great draughts of air,
BB p318	5108	The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
BB p318	5109	I am larger than I thought,
BB p318	5110	I did not know I held so much goodness.
BB p318	5111	All seems beautiful to me,
BB p318	5112	I can repeat over to men and women, You have done such good to me, I would do the same to you.
BB p318	5113	I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
BB p318	5114	I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
BB p319	5115	I will toss [-the new-] {+my own+} gladness and roughness among [-them;-] {+men & women,+}
BB p319	5116	Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me,
BB p319	5117	Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
BB p319	5118	Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear, it would not amaze me,
BB p319	5119	Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appeared, it would not astonish me.
BB p319	5120	Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
BB p319	5121	It is to grow in the open air, and to eat and sleep with the earth.
BB p319	5122	Here is space—here a great personal deed has room,
BB p319	5123	A great deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
BB p319	5124	Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law, and mocks all authority and all argument against it.
BB p319	5125	Here is the test of wisdom,
BB p319	5126	Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
BB p319	5127	Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it, to an- other not having it,
BB p319	5128	Wisdom is [-of-] the Soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof,
BB p319	5129	Applies to all stages and objects and qualities, and is content,
BB p319	5130	Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things;
BB p319	5131	{+(+}Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the Soul.{+)+}
BB p320	5132	Now I reëxamine philosophies and religions,
BB p320	5133	They may prove [-well-] in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious clouds, {+¶+} and along the landscape and flowing currents.
BB p320	5134	Here is realization,
BB p320	5135	Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,
BB p320	5136	The animals, the past, the future, light, space, majesty, love, {+¶+} if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
BB p320	5137	Only the kernel of every object nourishes;
BB p320	5138	Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
BB p320	5139	Where is he that undoes stratagems and envelopes for you and me?
BB p320	5140	Here is adhesiveness—it is not previously fashioned —it is apropos;
BB p320	5141	Do you know what it is, as you pass, to be loved by strangers?
BB p320	5142	Do you know the talk of those turning eye-balls?
BB p320	5143	Here is the efflux of the Soul,
BB p320	5144	The efflux of the Soul comes {+from within+} through [-beautiful-] {+embowered+} gates [-of laws-], provoking questions;
BB p320	5145	These yearnings, why are they? These thoughts in the darkness, why are they?
BB p320	5146	Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me, the sun-light expands my blood?
BB p320	5147	Why, when they leave me, do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
BB p320	5148	Why are there trees I never walk under, but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
BB p321	5149	(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees, and always drop fruit as I pass;)
BB p321	5150	What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
BB p321	5151	What with some driver, as I ride on the seat by his side?
BB p321	5152	What with some fisherman, drawing his seine by the shore, as I walk by and pause?
BB p321	5153	What gives me to be free to a woman's or man's good- will? What gives them to be free to mine?
BB p321	5154	The efflux of the Soul is happiness—here is happiness,
BB p321	5155	I think it pervades the air, waiting at all times,
BB p321	5156	Now it flows into us—we are rightly charged.
BB p321	5157	Here rises the fluid and attaching character;
BB p321	5158	The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
BB p321	5159	{+Do+} The herbs of the morning sprout [-no-] fresh[-er-] and sweet[-er-] every day out of the roots of them- selves [-,-] {+?+} {+¶+} [-than-] [- {+So+} -] it {+too+} sprouts fresh and sweet contin- ually out of itself.
BB p321	5160	Toward the fluid and attaching character exudes the sweat of the love of young and old,
BB p321	5161	From it falls distilled the charm that mocks beauty and attainments,
BB p321	5162	Toward it heaves the shuddering longing ache of contact.
BB p321	5163	Allons! Whoever you are, come travel with me!
BB p321	5164	Travelling with me, you find what never tires.
BB p322	5165	The earth never tires, [- {+(nor the road+} -]
BB p322	5166	The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first— {+¶+}Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first;
BB p322	5167	Be not discouraged—keep on—there are divine things, well enveloped,
BB p322	5168	I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
BB p322	5169	Allons! We must not stop here!
BB p322	5170	However sweet these laid-up stores—however con- venient this dwelling, we cannot remain here,
BB p322	5171	However sheltered this port, and however calm these waters, we must not anchor here,
BB p322	5172	However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us, we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
BB p322	5173	Allons! The inducements shall be great to you;
BB p322	5174	We will sail pathless and wild seas;
BB p322	5175	We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
BB p322	5176	Allons! With power, liberty, the earth, the elements!
BB p322	5177	Health, defiance, gayety, self-esteem, curiosity;
BB p322	5178	{+¶+}Allons! from all formules!
BB p322	5179	From your formules, O bat-eyed and materialistic priests!
BB p322	5180	{+(+}The stale cadaver blocks up the passage—the burial waits no longer.{+)+}
BB p322	5181	Allons! Yet take warning!
BB p322	5182	He travelling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
BB p323	5183	None may come to the trial, till he or she bring courage and health.
BB p323	5184	Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself;
BB p323	5185	Only those may come, who come in sweet and deter- mined bodies,
BB p323	5186	No diseased person—no rum-drinker or venereal taint is permitted here.
BB p323	5187	I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes,
BB p323	5188	We convince by our presence.
BB p323	5189	Listen! I will be honest with you,
BB p323	5190	I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes [-,-] {+;+}
BB p323	5191	These are the days that must happen to you:
BB p323	5192	You shall not heap up what is called riches,
BB p323	5193	You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve,
BB p323	5194	You but arrive at the city to which you were des- tined < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are called [-by an irresistible call-] to depart,
BB p323	5195	You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mock- ings of those who remain behind you,
BB p323	5196	What beckonings of love you receive, you shall only answer with passionate kisses of parting,
BB p323	5197	You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reached hands toward you.
BB p323	5198	Allons! After the GREAT COMPANIONS! and to belong to them!
BB p324	5199	They too are on the road! they are the swift and majestic men! they are the greatest women.
BB p324	5200	Over that which hindered them—over that which retarded—passing impediments large or small,
BB p324	5201	Committers of crimes, committers of many beautiful virtues,
BB p324	5202	Enjoyers of calms of seas, and storms of seas,
BB p324	5203	Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,
BB p324	5204	Habitu [-e-] {+é+} s of many different countries, habitu [-e-] {+é+} s of far- distant dwellings,
BB p324	5205	Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, soli- tary toilers,
BB p324	5206	Pausers and contemplaters of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
BB p324	5207	Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,
BB p324	5208	Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lower- ers down of coffins,
BB p324	5209	Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years— {+(+}the curious years, each emerging from that which preceded it,{+)+}
BB p324	5210	Journeyers as with companions, namely, their own diverse phases,
BB p324	5211	Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized baby-days,
BB p324	5212	Journeyers gayly with their own youth—journeyers with their bearded and well-grained manhood,
BB p324	5213	Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsur- passed, content,
BB p324	5214	Journeyers with their sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,
BB p324	5215	{+(+}Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
BB p325	5216	Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by free- dom of death.{+)+}
BB p325	5217	Allons! To that which is endless, as it was beginning- less,
BB p325	5218	To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,
BB p325	5219	To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they tend to,
BB p325	5220	Again to merge them in the start of superior jour- neys;
BB p325	5221	To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
BB p325	5222	To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
BB p325	5223	To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] however long, but it stretches and waits for you;
BB p325	5224	To see no being, not God's or any, but you also go thither,
BB p325	5225	To see no possession but you may possess it— enjoy- ing all without labor or purchase < [-—-] > [- {+¶+} -] abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;
BB p325	5226	To 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 or- chards and flowers of gardens,
BB p325	5227	To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
BB p325	5228	To carry buildings and streets with you afterward wherever you go,
BB p325	5229	To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them [-—-] {+¶+} to gather the love out of their hearts,
BB p326	5230	To take your [-own-] lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
BB p326	5231	To know the universe itself as a road—as many roads—as roads for travelling Souls.
BB p326	5232	The Soul travels,
BB p326	5233	The body does not travel as much as the Soul,
BB p326	5234	The body has just as great a work as the Soul, and parts away at last for the journeys of the Soul.
BB p326	5235	All parts away for the progress of Souls,
BB p326	5236	All 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.
BB p326	5237	Of the progress of the Souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, [- {+¶+} -]all other prog- ress is the needed emblem and sustenance.
BB p326	5238	Forever alive, forever forward,
BB p326	5239	Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled, mad, turbu- lent, feeble, dissatisfied,
BB p326	5240	Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, re- jected by men,
BB p326	5241	They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
BB p326	5242	But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
BB p326	5243	Allons! Whoever you are! come forth!
BB p326	5244	You must not stay [-sleeping and-] dallying there in the house, [- {+¶+} -]though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
BB p327	5245	Allons! out of the dark confinement!
BB p327	5246	It is useless to protest—I know all, and expose it.
BB p327	5247	Behold, through you as bad as the rest,
BB p327	5248	Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping, of people,
BB p327	5249	Inside of dresses and ornaments, inside of those washed and trimmed faces,
BB p327	5250	Behold a secret silent loathing and despair.
BB p327	5251	No husband, no wife, no friend, [-no lover,-] so trusted [-as-] to hear the confession,
BB p327	5252	Another self, a duplicate of every one, skulking and hiding it goes, [-open and above board it goes, -]
BB p327	5253	Formless and wordless through the streets of the cities, polite and bland in the parlors,
BB p327	5254	In the cars of rail-roads, in steam-boats, in the public assembly,
BB p327	5255	Home to the houses of men and women, [-among their families,-] at the table, in the bed-room, every- where,
BB p327	5256	Smartly attired, countenance smiling, form upright, {+¶+} [-d-] {+D+} eath under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
BB p327	5257	Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
BB p327	5258	Keeping fair with the customs, speaking not a syllable of itself,
BB p327	5259	Speaking of anything else, but never of itself.
BB p327	5260	52. Allons! Through struggles and wars!
BB p327	5261	The goal that was named cannot be countermanded.
BB p328	5262	Have the past struggles succeeded?
BB p328	5263	What has succeeded? Yourself? Your nation? Nature?
BB p328	5264	Now understand me well—{+It is provided in the essence of things, {+¶+}that from any fruition of suc- cess, no matter what, {+¶+}shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.+}
BB p328	5265	My call is the call of battle—I nourish active re- bellion,
BB p328	5266	He going with me must go well armed,
BB p328	5267	He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
BB p328	5268	Allons! The road is before us!
BB p328	5269	It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well.
BB p328	5270	Allons! Be not detained!
BB p328	5271	Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopened!
BB p328	5272	Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearned!
BB p328	5273	Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
BB p328	5274	Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! {+¶+}let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound the law.
BB p328	5275	Mon enfant! I give you my hand!
BB p328	5276	I give you my love, more precious than money,
BB p328	5277	I give you myself, before preaching or law;
BB p328	5278	Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me?
BB p328	5279	Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
BB p329	5280	This rolling earth is [-the-] {+the+} word to be said [-by me,-]
BB p329	5281	[-EARTH, round, rolling, [- {+so+} -] compact-] [-—-] {+¶+} {+The sun,+} < [-sun< [-s-] >,-] > moon[-s-], ani- mals— [-all-] these are words to be said[-,-] [- {+by me+} -]{+;+}
BB p329	5282	Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances—beings, pre- monitions, lispings of the future,
BB p329	5283	[-Behold!-] these are [-vast-] {+the+} words {+the words+} to be said.
BB p329	5284	< [-Were you-] > [- {+Was [-I-] {+anyone+}+} -] thinking that those were the words—those upright lines? < [-those-] > curves, angles, dots?
BB p329	5285	{+—+}No, those are not the words—the substantial words are in the ground and sea,
BB p329	5286	They are in the air—{+(+}they are in [-you.-] [- {+myself+} -] [- {+my+} -] {+your own Soul.)+}
BB p329	5287	< [-Were you-] > [- {+Was [-I-] {+anyone+}+} -] thinking that those were the words— {+¶+}those delicious sounds out of [-your-] [- {+my+} -] [- {+our+} -] friends' mouths?
BB p329	5288	{+—+}No, the real words are more delicious than they.
BB p329	5289	Human bodies are words, myriads of words,
BB p329	5290	In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, < [-well-shaped, natural, gay,-] >
BB p329	5291	Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.
BB p330	5292	Air, soil, water, fire, [-these-] are [- {+the+} -] [- {+my+} -] words,
BB p330	5293	I myself am a word with them—my qualities inter- penetrate with theirs< [-—[-my-] name{+s+} [-is-] {+are+} nothing to them, -] >
BB p330	5294	Though [-it were-] told in the three thousand languages, what would air, soil, water, fire, know of [-my-] name{+s+}[-?-]
BB p330	5295	A healthy presence, a friendly or commanding ges- ture, are words, sayings, meanings,
BB p330	5296	The charms that go with the mere looks of some men and women, are sayings and meanings also.
BB p330	5297	[- [-The-] {+True+} workmanship [-of Souls-] is by the inaudible words of the earth, -]
BB p330	5298	The great masters[-, the sayers,-] know the earth's words, and use them more than the audible words.
BB p330	5299	Amelioration is one of the earth's words,
BB p330	5300	The earth neither lags nor hastens,
BB p330	5301	It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump,
BB p330	5302	It is not half beautiful only—defects and excres- cences show just as much as perfections show.
BB p330	5303	The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough,
BB p330	5304	The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so concealed either,
BB p330	5305	They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print,
BB p330	5306	They are imbued through all things, conveying them- selves willingly,
BB p330	5307	Conveying a sentiment and invitation of the earth—{+saying,+} I utter and utter,
BB p331	5308	I speak not, yet if you hear me not, of what avail am I to you?
BB p331	5309	To bear—to better—lacking these, of what avail am I?
BB p331	5310	Accouche! Accouchez!
BB p331	5311	Will you rot your own fruit in yourself there?
BB p331	5312	Will you squat and stifle there?
BB p331	5313	The earth does not argue,
BB p331	5314	Is not pathetic, has no arrangements,
BB p331	5315	Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise,
BB p331	5316	Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable fail- ures,
BB p331	5317	Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out,
BB p331	5318	Of all the powers, objects, states, it notifies, shuts none out.
BB p331	5319	The earth does not exhibit itself, nor refuse to exhibit itself—possesses still underneath,
BB p331	5320	Underneath the ostensible sounds, the august chorus of heroes, the wail of slaves,
BB p331	5321	Persuasions of lovers, curses, gasps of the dying, laughter of young people, accents of bargainers,
BB p331	5322	Underneath these, possessing the words that never fail.
BB p331	5323	To her children, the words of the eloquent dumb great mother never fail,
BB p331	5324	The true words do not fail, for motion does not fail, and reflection does not fail,
BB p331	5325	Also the day and night do not fail, and the voyage we pursue does not fail.
BB p332	5326	Of the interminable sisters,
BB p332	5327	Of the ceaseless cotillions of sisters,
BB p332	5328	Of the centripetal and centrifugal sisters, the elder and younger sisters,
BB p332	5329	The beautiful sister we know dances on with the rest.
BB p332	5330	With her ample back toward every beholder,
BB p332	5331	With the fascinations of youth, and the equal fascina- tions of age,
BB p332	5332	Sits she whom I too love like the rest—sits undis- turbed,
BB p332	5333	Holding up in her hand what has the character of a mirror, while her eyes glance back from it,
BB p332	5334	Glance as she sits, inviting none, denying none,
BB p332	5335	Holding a mirror day and night tirelessly before her own face.
BB p332	5336	Seen at hand, or seen at a distance,
BB p332	5337	Duly the twenty-four appear in public every day,
BB p332	5338	Duly approach and pass with their companions, or a companion,
BB p332	5339	Looking from no countenances of their own, but from the countenances of those who are with them,
BB p332	5340	From the countenances of children or women, or the manly countenance,
BB p332	5341	From the open countenances of animals, or from inanimate things,
BB p332	5342	From the landscape or waters, or from the exquisite apparition of the sky,
BB p332	5343	From our countenances, mine and yours, faithfully returning them,
BB p332	5344	Every day in public appearing without fail, but never twice with the same companions.
BB p333	5345	Embracing man, embracing all, {+¶+}proceed the three hundred and sixty-five resistlessly round the sun,
BB p333	5346	Embracing all, soothing, supporting, follow close {+¶+} three hundred and sixty-five offsets of the first, {+¶+} sure and necessary as they.
BB p333	5347	Tumbling on steadily, nothing dreading,
BB p333	5348	Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying,
BB p333	5349	The Soul's realization and determination still inherit- ing,
BB p333	5350	The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing,
BB p333	5351	No balk retarding, no anchor anchoring, on no rock striking,
BB p333	5352	Swift, glad, content, unbereaved, nothing losing,
BB p333	5353	Of all able and ready at any time to give strict account,
BB p333	5354	The divine ship sails the divine sea.
BB p333	5355	Whoever you are! motion and reflection are espe- cially for you,
BB p333	5356	The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.
BB p333	5357	Whoever you are! you are he or she for whom the earth is solid and liquid,
BB p333	5358	You are he or she for whom the sun and moon hang in the sky,
BB p333	5359	For none more than you are the present and the past,
BB p333	5360	For none more than you is immortality.
BB p333	5361	21. Each man to himself, and each woman to herself, {+¶ Such+} is the word of the past and present, and the word of immortality,
BB p334	5362	No one can acquire for another—not one!
BB p334	5363	Not one can grow for another—not one!
BB p334	5364	The song is to the singer, and comes back most to him,
BB p334	5365	The teaching is to the teacher, and comes back most to him,
BB p334	5366	The murder is to the murderer, and comes back most to him,
BB p334	5367	The theft is to the thief, and comes back most to him,
BB p334	5368	The love is to the lover, and comes back most to him,
BB p334	5369	The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him —it cannot fail,
BB p334	5370	The oration is to the orator, and the acting is to the actor and actress, not to the audience,
BB p334	5371	And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of his own.
BB p334	5372	I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete!
BB p334	5373	I swear the earth remains broken and jagged only to him or her who remains broken and jagged!
BB p334	5374	I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those of the earth!
BB p334	5375	I swear there can be no theory of any account, unless it corroborate the theory of the earth!
BB p334	5376	No politics, art, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account, unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
BB p334	5377	Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of the earth.
BB p334	5378	I swear I begin to see love with sweeter spasms than that which responds love!
BB p335	5379	It is that which contains itself, which never invites and never refuses.
BB p335	5380	I swear I begin to see little or nothing in audible words!
BB p335	5381	I swear I think all merges toward the presentation of the unspoke[-n-] meanings of the earth!
BB p335	5382	Toward him who sings the songs of the body, and of the truths of the earth,
BB p335	5383	Toward him who makes the dictionaries of the words that print cannot touch.
BB p335	5384	I swear I see what is better than to tell the best,
BB p335	5385	It is always to leave the best untold.
BB p335	5386	When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot,
BB p335	5387	My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots,
BB p335	5388	My breath will not be obedient to its organs,
BB p335	5389	I become a dumb man.
BB p335	5390	The best of the earth cannot be told anyhow—all or any is best,
BB p335	5391	It is not what you anticipated—it is cheaper, easier, nearer,
BB p335	5392	Things are not dismissed from the places they held before,
BB p335	5393	The earth is just as positive and direct as it was before,
BB p335	5394	Facts, religions, improvements, politics, trades, are as real as before,
BB p335	5395	But the Soul is also real,—it too is positive and direct,
BB p335	5396	No reasoning, no proof has established it,
BB p335	5397	Undeniable growth has established it.
BB p336	5398	This is a poem for the sayers of words—these are hints of meanings,
BB p336	5399	These are they that echo the tones of Souls, and the phrases of Souls;
BB p336	5400	If they did not echo the phrases of Souls, what were they then?
BB p336	5401	If they had not reference to you in especial, what were they then?
BB p336	5402	I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!
BB p336	5403	I will have to do with that faith only that leaves the best untold.
BB p336	5404	Say on, sayers!
BB p336	5405	Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth!
BB p336	5406	Work on—it is materials you bring, not breaths;
BB p336	5407	Work on, age after age! nothing is to be lost,
BB p336	5408	It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use,
BB p336	5409	When the materials are all prepared, the architects shall appear.
BB p336	5410	I swear to you the architects shall appear without fail! I announce them and lead them,
BB p336	5411	I swear to you they will understand you and justify you,
BB p336	5412	I swear to you the greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, [-and-] {+¶+} {+Who+} encloses all, and is faithful to all,
BB p336	5413	I swear to you, he and the rest shall not forget you [-—-] {+¶+} they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they,
BB p336	5414	I swear to you, you shall be glorified in them.
BB p337	5415	CLEAR the way there, Jonathan!
BB p337	5416	Way for the President's marshal! Way for the gov- ernment cannon!
BB p337	5417	Way for the federal foot and dragoons—{+(+}and the appa- ritions copiously tumbling.{+)+}
BB p337	5418	[-I rose this morning early,-] [-t-] {+T+} o get betimes in Boston town, {+I rose this morning early;+}
BB p337	5419	Here's a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show.
BB p337	5420	I love to look on the stars and stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
BB p337	5421	How bright shine the cutlasses of the foremost troops!
BB p337	5422	Every man holds his revolver, marching stiff through Boston town.
BB p337	5423	A fog follows—antiques of the same come limping,
BB p337	5424	Some appear wooden-legged, and some appear ban- daged and bloodless.
BB p338	5425	Why this is {+indeed+} a show! It has called the dead out of the earth!
BB p338	5426	The old grave-yards of the hills have hurried to see!
BB p338	5427	[-Uncountable-] {+Phantoms!+} phantoms gather by flank and rear of it!
BB p338	5428	Cocked hats of mothy mould! crutches made of mist!
BB p338	5429	Arms in slings! old men leaning on young men's shoulders!
BB p338	5430	What troubles you, Yankee phantoms? What is all this chattering of bare gums?
BB p338	5431	Does the ague convulse your limbs? Do you mis- take your crutches for fire-locks, and level them?
BB p338	5432	If you blind your eyes with tears, you will not see the President's marshal,
BB p338	5433	If you groan such groans you might balk the govern- ment cannon.
BB p338	5434	For shame, old maniacs! Bring down those tos [-sed-] {+t+} arms, and let your white hair be,
BB p338	5435	Here gape your [-smart-] {+great‑+}grand-sons—their wives gaze at them from the windows,
BB p338	5436	See how well-dressed—see how orderly they conduct themselves.
BB p338	5437	Worse and worse! Can't you stand it! Are you retreating!
BB p338	5438	Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
BB p339	5439	Retreat then! Pell-mell!
BB p339	5440	[-Back-] [-t-] {+T+} o your graves! Back {+—back+} to the hills, old limpers!
BB p339	5441	I do not think you belong here, anyhow.
BB p339	5442	But there is one thing that belongs here—shall I tell you what it is, gentlemen of Boston?
BB p339	5443	I will whisper it to the Mayor—he shall send a com- mittee to England,
BB p339	5444	They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault—haste!
BB p339	5445	Dig out King George's coffin, unwrap him quick from the grave-clothes, box up his bones for a journey,
BB p339	5446	Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper,
BB p339	5447	Up with your anchor! shake out your sails! steer straight toward Boston bay.
BB p339	5448	[-Now-] {+Then+} call for the President's marshal again, bring out the government cannon,
BB p339	5449	Fetch home the roarers from Congress, make an- other procession, guard it with foot and dra- goons.
BB p339	5450	This centre-piece for them:
BB p339	5451	Look! all orderly citizens—look from the windows, women!
BB p339	5452	The committee open the box, set up the regal ribs, glue those that will not stay,
BB p340	5453	Clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull.
BB p340	5454	You have got your revenge, old buster! The crown is come to its own, and more than its own.
BB p340	5455	Stick your hands in your pockets, Jonathan—you are a made man from this day,
BB p340	5456	You are mighty cute—and here is one of your bargains.
BB p341	5457	By the Calamus Pond, I wander.
BB p341	5458	[-IN-] {+Through+} paths untrodden, {+ [-in a-] {+and+} bower{+s,+} +}
BB p341	5459	< [-In the {+green &+} growth by margin[-s of pond--] waters,-] >
BB p341	5460	Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,
BB p341	5461	From all the standards hitherto published—from the pleasures, profits, conformities,
BB p341	5462	Which too long I was offering to feed to my Soul
BB p341	5463	Clear to me now, standards not yet published— clear to me that my Soul,
BB p341	5464	That the Soul of the man I speak for, feeds, rejoices < [-only in comrades;-] > [- {+only in love;+} -]
BB p341	5465	Here, by myself, away from the clank of the world,
BB p341	5466	Tallying and talked to here by tongues aromatic,
BB p341	5467	No longer abashed—for in this secluded spot I can respond as I would not dare elsewhere,
BB p341	5468	Strong upon me the life that does not exhibit itself, yet contains all the rest,
BB p341	5469	Resolved to [-sing-] {+chant+} no [-song[-s-]-] {+chant+} to-day but [-those-] {+that+} of manly attachment,
BB p341	5470	Projecting [-them-] {+it+} along that substantial life,
BB p341	5471	Bequeathing, hence, {+a+} type[-s-] of athletic < [-love,-] > [- {+adhesiveness,+} -]
BB p342	5472	Afternoon, < [-this-] > [- {+on+} -] delicious Ninth Month, in my forty- first year,
BB p342	5473	I [-proceed-] [- {+ at last+} -] {+consent at last+} , for all who are, or have been, young men,
BB p342	5474	To tell [- {+in a word,+} -] the secret of my nights and days,
BB p342	5475	[-To celebrate-] {+Namely,+} the need of {+ [-athletic-] [-faithful-] +} comrades.
BB p342	5476	SCENTED herbage of my breast,
BB p342	5477	Leaves from you I yield, I write, to be perused [-best-] afterwards,
BB p342	5478	Tomb-leaves, body-leaves, growing up above me, above death,
BB p342	5479	Perennial roots, tall leaves—O the winter shall not freeze you, delicate leaves,
BB p342	5480	Every year shall you bloom again—Out from where you retired, you shall emerge again;
BB p342	5481	O I do not know whether many, passing by, will dis- cover you, or inhale your faint odor—but I believe a few will;
BB p342	5482	O slender leaves! O blossoms of my blood! I permit you to tell, in your own way, of the heart that is under you,
BB p342	5483	O burning and throbbing—surely all will one day be accomplished;
BB p342	5484	O I do not know what you mean, there underneath yourselves—you are not happiness,
BB p342	5485	You are often more bitter than I can bear—you burn and sting me,
BB p343	5486	Yet you are very beautiful to me, you faint-tinged roots—you make me think of Death,
BB p343	5487	Death is beautiful from you—(what indeed is beau- tiful, except Death and Love?)
BB p343	5488	O I think it is not for [-l-] {+L+} ife I am chanting here my chant of lovers—I think it must be for Death,
BB p343	5489	For how calm, how solemn it grows, to ascend to the atmosphere of lovers,
BB p343	5490	Death or [-l-] {+L+} ife I am then indifferent—my Soul de- clines to prefer,
BB p343	5491	I am not sure but the high Soul of lovers welcomes death most;
BB p343	5492	Indeed, O Death, I think now these leaves mean pre- cisely the same as you mean;
BB p343	5493	Grow up taller, sweet leaves, that I may see! Grow up out of my breast!
BB p343	5494	Spring away from the concealed heart there!
BB p343	5495	Do not fold yourselves so in your pink-tinged roots, timid leaves!
BB p343	5496	Do not remain down there so ashamed, herbage of my breast!
BB p343	5497	Come, I am determined to unbare this broad breast of mine—I have long enough stifled and choked;
BB p343	5498	Emblematic and capricious blades, I leave you—now you serve me not,
BB p343	5499	Away! I will say what I have to say, by itself,
BB p343	5500	I will escape from the sham that was proposed to me,
BB p343	5501	I will sound myself and comrades only—I will never again utter a call, only their call,
BB p343	5502	I will raise, with it, immortal reverberations through The States,
BB p343	5503	I will give an example to lovers, to take permanent shape and will through The States;
BB p344	5504	Through me shall the words be said to make death exhilarating,
BB p344	5505	Give me your tone therefore, O Death, that I may accord with it,
BB p344	5506	Give me yourself—for I see that you belong to me now above all, and are folded together [-above all-] {+inseparable+} —you Love and Death are,
BB p344	5507	Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling [-l-] {+L+} ife,
BB p344	5508	For now it is conveyed to me that you are the pur- ports essential,
BB p344	5509	That you hide in these shifting forms of life, for reasons—and that they are mainly for you,
BB p344	5510	That you, beyond them, come forth, to remain, the real reality,
BB p344	5511	That behind the mask of materials you patiently wait, no matter how long,
BB p344	5512	That you will one day, perhaps, take control of all,
BB p344	5513	That you will perhaps dissipate this entire show of appearance,
BB p344	5514	That may be you are what it is all for—but it does not last so very long,
BB p344	5515	But you will last very long.
BB p344	5516	WHOEVER you are holding me now in hand,
BB p344	5517	Without one thing all will be useless,
BB p344	5518	{+(+}I give you fair warning, before you attempt me further,
BB p344	5519	I am not what you supposed, but far different.{+)+}
BB p345	5520	[-Who is he that would-] {+Advances [-a man-] {+one+} to+} become my follower?
BB p345	5521	[-Who would sign himself-] [- {+ +} -] {+Is he who touches me now+} a candidate for my affec- tions? [-Are you he?-]
BB p345	5522	The way is [-suspicious—-] {+dreary—+} the result slow [-,-] {+and+} uncertain [-,-] {+;+} take in * [-may-be destructive-];
BB p345	5523	You would have to give up all else—I alone would [-expect-] {+require+} to be your God, sole and exclusive,
BB p345	5524	Your novitiate would even then be long and ex- hausting,
BB p345	5525	[-The whole past theory of your life, and-] [-a-] {+A+} ll conformity to the lives around you, would have to be aban- doned;
BB p345	5526	Therefore release me [-now-] {+at once+} , before troubling yourself any further [-—-] {+¶+} Let go your hand from my shoulders,
BB p345	5527	Put me down, and depart on your way.
BB p345	5528	[-{+First+}Or else, only-] [-b-] {+B+} y stealth, in some wood, [-for trial,-] {+O my lover+}
BB p345	5529	Or back of a rock, in the open air, [- {+O my lover for trial,+} -]
BB p345	5530	(For in any roofed room of a house I emerge not— nor in company,
BB p345	5531	And in libraries I lie as one dumb, a gawk, or unborn, or dead,)
BB p345	5532	But just possibly {+specially+} with you on a high hill[-—first-] {+¶+} [-w-] {+W+} atching lest any person, for miles around, approach unawares,
BB p345	5533	Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea, or some quiet island,
BB p345	5534	Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you,
BB p345	5535	With the comrade's long-dwelling kiss, or the new husband's kiss,
BB p345	5536	For I am the new husband, and I am the comrade.
BB p345	5537	But I am not what you supposed, O my lover.
BB p346	5538	Or, < [-if you will,-] > [- {+for of us still,+} -] thrusting me beneath your clothing,
BB p346	5539	Where I may < [-feel the throbs of your heart,-] > or rest [-upon your-] {+on your waist or+} hip, [- {+and feel the throbs of your heart,+} -]
BB p346	5540	Carry me when you go forth over land or sea;
BB p346	5541	For thus, merely touching you, is enough—is [-best-] {+better for both of us,+}
BB p346	5542	And thus, touching you, would I silently sleep and be carried eternally.
BB p346	5543	[-Thus-] On your breast, on your silent breast O my lover
BB p346	5544	But these leaves [-conning, you con-] {+opening [-and-] you open+} at peril, [- {+O my lover,+} -]
BB p346	5545	For these leaves, and me, you will not understand, {+O my lover,+}
BB p346	5546	They will elude you at first, and still more after- ward—I will certainly elude you,
BB p346	5547	Even while you should think you had unquestionably caught me, behold!
BB p346	5548	Already you see I have escaped from you[-.-] {+O my lover,+}
BB p346	5549	Therefore [-put-] {+set+} me down of your own accord
BB p346	5550	Release your hands from my shoulders & let me go.
BB p346	5551	For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book,
BB p346	5552	Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it, {+O my lover,+}
BB p346	5553	Nor do those know me best who admire me[-,-] and vauntingly praise me,
BB p346	5554	Nor will the candidates for my love, (unless at most a very few,) prove victorious,
BB p346	5555	Nor will my poems do good only—they will do just as much evil, perhaps more [-,-] {+;+}
BB p346	5556	For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit—that which I hinted at [-,-] {+;+}
BB p346	5557	Therefore release me, {+at once, take off your hands from my shoulders+} {+¶+}{+Put me down+} and depart on your way [-.-] {+,+} [- {+O my lover+} -] {+O my lover.+}
BB p347	5558	As I walk alone at candlelight
BB p347	5559	[-THESE I,-] [- {+Ag+} -] [-s-] {+S+} inging [- {+now+} -] in spring, [-collect for-] [- {+ +} -] {+the songs of+} lovers, {+and comrades+}
BB p347	5560	(For who but I should < [-understand-] > {+sing of+} lovers, and all their sorrow and joy?
BB p347	5561	And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
BB p347	5562	Collecting, I [- {+seem to+} -] traverse the garden, the world [- {+in dream+} -]—but soon I pass the gates,
BB p347	5563	Now along the pond-side—now wading in a little, fearing not the wet,
BB p347	5564	[-Now by-] {+Pass+} the post-and-rail fences, where the old stones [-thrown there,-] picked from the fields, have accu- mulated,
BB p347	5565	{+(+}Wild-flowers and vines and weeds come up through the stones, and partly cover them [-—-] {+¶+} Beyond these I pass,
BB p347	5566	Far, far in the forest,{+)+} [-before I think where I [-get,-] [- {+and,+} -] {+go,+} -]
BB p347	5567	Solitary, smelling the earthy smell, stopping now and then in the silence,
BB p347	5568	Alone I had thought—yet soon a [-silent-] troop < [-gathers-] > [- {+ drives +} -] {+in [- {+the+} -] dusk+} around me,
BB p347	5569	Some walk by my side, and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck,
BB p347	5570	[-They, the-] [-s-] {+S+} pirits of friends, dead or alive—thicker they come, a great crowd, and I in the middle,
BB p347	5571	Collecting, dispensing, singing in spring, [-there-] [- {+here+} -] I wan- der with them, {+[-in my dream-] in the dusk,+}
BB p347	5572	Plucking something for tokens—[-something for these, till I hit upon a name-]—tossing toward whoever is near me,
BB p348	5573	Here! lilac, with a branch of pine,
BB p348	5574	Here, out of my pocket, some moss which I pulled off a live-oak in Florida, as it hung trailing down,
BB p348	5575	Here, some pinks and laurel leaves, and a handful of sage,
BB p348	5576	And here what I now draw from the water, wading in the pond-side,
BB p348	5577	(O here I last saw him that tenderly loves me—and returns again, never to separate from me,
BB p348	5578	And this, O this shall henceforth be the token of comrades—this calamus-root shall,
BB p348	5579	Interchange it, youths, with each other! Let none render it back!)
BB p348	5580	And twigs of maple, and a bunch of wild orange, and chestnut,
BB p348	5581	And stems of currants, and plum-blows, and the aromatic cedar;
BB p348	5582	These I, compassed around {+in dusk+} by a thick [-cloud-] {+swarm+} of [-spirits-] {+lovers+} ,
BB p348	5583	Wandering, point to, or touch as I pass, or throw them loosely from me,
BB p348	5584	Indicating to each one what he shall have—giving something to each,
BB p348	5585	But what I drew from the water by the pond-side, that I reserve,
BB p348	5586	I will give of it—but only to them that love, as I myself am capable of loving.
BB p349	5587	Sons of the mother of all!
BB p349	5588	STATES!
BB p349	5589	Were you looking to be [- {+really+} -] held together by the lawyers?
BB p349	5590	By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms?
BB p349	5591	Away!
BB p349	5592	[-I arrive, bringing these,-]{+[-But-] O [-for something-]+} beyond [-all-] the forces of {+lawyers and+} [-courts and-] {+law or+} arms,
BB p349	5593	< [-These!-] > [- {+ +} -] to hold you together as firmly as the earth itself is held together.
BB p349	5594	The old breath of life, ever new,
BB p349	5595	Here! I pass it by contact to you, America.
BB p349	5596	O mother! have you done much for me?
BB p349	5597	Behold, there shall from me be much done for you.
BB p349	5598	[-There shall from me be-] {+O that there might go from me+} a new {+American+} friendship—[- [-It shall-] {+to+} {+To+} [- OU -] be called after my name, -]
BB p349	5599	[-It shall-] [- {+O that+} -] {+To+} circulate through The States, indifferent of place,
BB p349	5600	[-It shall-] {+To+} twist and intertwist [-them-] [- {+the States+} -] through and around {+them all.+} [-each other [-—-] {+¶ O+} Compact shall they be, showing new signs, -]
BB p349	5601	{+¶+}Affection [-shall-] {+only [-can-]+} solve{+s+} [-every one of-] the problems of freedom,
BB p349	5602	Those who love each other [-shall be-] {+shall become+} invincible,
BB p349	5603	They < [-shall-] > [- {+ +} -] finally make America completely victo- rious [-,-] {+.+} [-in my name.-]
BB p350	5604	One from Massachusetts < [-shall-] > [- {+must+} -] be comrade to a Mis- sourian,
BB p350	5605	One from Maine or Vermont, and a Carolinian and an Oregonese, shall be friends triune, {+¶+}more pre- cious to each other than all the riches of the earth.
BB p350	5606	To Michigan shall [- {+yet+} -] [- {+still+} -] be wafted perfume from Florida,
BB p350	5607	To the Mannahatta from [-Cuba or Mexico,-] {+Oregon or Nevada,+}
BB p350	5608	Not the perfume of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.
BB p350	5609	No danger shall balk [-Columbia's-] {+America[-n-]{+s+}+} lovers,
BB p350	5610	[-If need be, a thousand shall sternly immolate them- selves for one, -]
BB p350	5611	[-The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for the Kansian, and the Kansian for the Kanuck, on due need. -]
BB p350	5612	It shall be customary in all directions, in the houses and streets, to see manly affection,
BB p350	5613	The departing brother or friend shall salute the re- maining brother or friend with a kiss.
BB p350	5614	There shall be innovations,
BB p350	5615	There shall be [-countless-] linked hands—[-namely,-] the Northeasterner's, [-and-] {+with+} the Northwesterner's, {+¶+}and the Southwesterner's, [-and-] {+with+} those of the interior [-,-] {+.+} [-and all their brood,-]
BB p350	5616	These shall be masters of the world under a new power,
BB p350	5617	They shall laugh to scorn the attacks of all the re- mainder of the world.
BB p351	5618	(Over the carnage sons of the mother of all
BB p351	5619	Rose to my ear [- -] {+this+} pensive voice out of the west for your sake)
BB p351	5620	Affection shall yet, (it said)
BB p351	5621	The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,
BB p351	5622	The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers,
BB p351	5623	The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.
BB p351	5624	These shall tie and band stronger than hoops of iron,
BB p351	5625	I, [-extatic-] {+the encloser of all+} , O partners! O lands! [-henceforth-] {+will yet+} with the love of lovers tie you.
BB p351	5626	[-I will-] {+Come let us+} [- {+t+} -] make the continent indissoluble, [- {+though it cost me+} -]
BB p351	5627	(Thus cried the Phantomic {+prophetic+} voice, [-down fr-] [-loftily of-] {+rising+} over the carnage, {+rising+} over [-the dead-] the dead I {+in anguish+} mourn)
BB p351	5628	I < [-will-] > [- {+would+} -] make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon,
BB p351	5629	I < [-will-] > {+yet+} make divine magnetic lands.
BB p351	5630	I < [-will-] > [- {+yet+} -] plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, {+¶+} and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies [-,-] {+;+}
BB p351	5631	I < [-will-] > make inseparable cities, with their arms about each other's necks.
BB p351	5632	{+(+}For you [- {+too+} -] these, [-from me,-] [- {+with my help,+} -] O Democracy, to serve you, ma femme!
BB p351	5633	For you! for you, I am trilling these songs.{+)+}
BB p351	5634	NOT heaving from [-my-] {+this+} ribb [-e-] {+'+} d breast only,
BB p351	5635	Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself,
BB p351	5636	Not in those long-drawn, ill-suppres [-sed-] {+t+} sighs,
BB p351	5637	Not in many an oath and promise broken,
BB p351	5638	Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition,
BB p352	5639	Not in the subtle nourishment of the air,
BB p352	5640	Not in this beating and pounding at my temples and wrists,
BB p352	5641	Not in the curious systole and diastole within, which will one day cease,
BB p352	5642	Not in many a hungry wish, told to the skies only,
BB p352	5643	Not in cries, laughter, defiances, thrown from me when alone, far in the wilds,
BB p352	5644	Not in husky pantings through clenched teeth,
BB p352	5645	Not in sounded and resounded words—chattering words, echoes, dead words,
BB p352	5646	Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
BB p352	5647	Nor the other murmurs of these incredible dreams of every day,
BB p352	5648	Nor in the limbs and senses of my body, that take you and dismiss you continually—Not there,
BB p352	5649	Not in any or all of them, O adhesiveness! O pulse of my life!
BB p352	5650	Need I that you exist and show yourself, any more than in these songs.
BB p352	5651	OF the terrible [-question-] {+doubt+} of appearances,
BB p352	5652	Of the [-doubts, the-] {+question,+} uncertaint [-ies-] {+y+} after all,{+—that we may be deluded.+}
BB p352	5653	That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
BB p352	5654	That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
BB p352	5655	May-be the things I perceive—the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
BB p353	5656	The skies of day and night—colors, densities, forms [- {+ +} -] {+before & around me.+} [-—-] {+¶+} May-be these are, (as doubtless they are,) only apparitions, [- {+¶+} -] and the real something [- {+ +} -] {+still+} has [-yet-] to be known,
BB p353	5657	(How often they dart out of themselves, as if to con- found me and mock me!
BB p353	5658	How often I [-think-] {+see+} neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them;)
BB p353	5659	May-be they only seem 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,) naught of what they appear, {+¶+}or naught any how, from entirely changed points of view;
BB p353	5660	{+—+}To me, these [- {+doubts+} -], and the like of these, {+& all doubts+} are curiously answered by my lovers, my dear friends;
BB p353	5661	When he whom I love travels with me, or sits a long while holding me by the hand,
BB p353	5662	When the < [-subtle air,-] > [-the impalpable, the sense-] that words and reason hold not, surround{+s+} us and pervade{+s+} us,
BB p353	5663	Then I am charged with untold and untellable wis- dom—I am silent—I require nothing further,
BB p353	5664	I cannot answer the question of appearances, or that of identity beyond the grave,
BB p353	5665	But I walk or sit indifferent—I am satisfied,
BB p353	5666	He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.
BB p354	5667	LONG I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me—O if I could but obtain knowledge!
BB p354	5668	Then my lands engrossed me—Lands of the prairies, Ohio's land, the southern savannas, engrossed me—For them I would live—I would be their orator;
BB p354	5669	Then I met the examples of old and new heroes—I heard of warriors, sailors, and all dauntless per- sons—And it seemed to me that I too had it in me to be as dauntless as any—and would be so;
BB p354	5670	And then, to enclose all, it came to me to strike up the songs of the New World—And then I be- lieved my life must be spent in singing;
BB p354	5671	But now take notice, land of the prairies, land of the south savannas, Ohio's land,
BB p354	5672	Take notice, you Kanuck woods—and you Lake Huron—and all that with you roll toward Niagara—and you Niagara also,
BB p354	5673	And you, Californian mountains—That you each and all find somebody else to be your singer of songs,
BB p354	5674	For I can be your singer of songs no longer—One who loves me is jealous of me, and withdraws me from all but love,
BB p354	5675	With the rest I dispense—I sever from what I thought would suffice me, for it does not—it is now empty and tasteless to me,
BB p354	5676	I heed knowledge, and the grandeur of The States, and the example of heroes, no more,
BB p355	5677	I am indifferent to my own songs—I will go with him I love,
BB p355	5678	It is to be enough for us that we are together—We never separate again.
BB p355	5679	HOURS continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted,
BB p355	5680	Hours [-of the dusk,-] when I withdraw to a lonesome and unfrequented spot, [- {+¶+} -] seating myself, leaning my face in my hands;
BB p355	5681	Hours sleepless, deep in the night, when I go forth, [- {+¶+} -] < [-s-] > [- {+S+} -] peeding swiftly the country roads, {+¶+}or through the city streets, [- {+¶+} -] < [-o-] > [- {+O+} -] r pacing miles and miles, sti- fling plaintive cries;
BB p355	5682	[- {+—+} -]Hours discouraged, distracted—for the one I cannot content myself without, [- {+¶+} -]soon I saw him content himself without me;
BB p355	5683	{+¶+}Hours when I am forgotten, [-(O weeks and months are passing, but I believe I am never to forget!) -]
BB p355	5684	Sullen and suffering hours! [-(I am ashamed—but it is useless—I am what I am;) -]
BB p355	5685	Hours of my torment—[-I wonder if other men ever have the like, out of the like feelings? -]
BB p355	5686	Is there {+over the whole earth+} [-even-] one other {+man+} like me [-—-] {+¶+} {+Is he as I am now+} distracted—his friend, his lover, lost to him?
BB p355	5687	[-Is he [-too-] as I am now?-] Does he [-still-] rise in the morn- ing, dejected, thinking who is lost to him? [-and-] {+or+} at night, awaking, think who is lost?
BB p356	5688	Does he too harbor his friendship silent and endless? harbor his anguish and passion?
BB p356	5689	Does some stray reminder, or the casual mention of a name, bring the fit back upon him, taciturn and deprest?
BB p356	5690	Does he see himself reflected in me? In these hours, does he see the face of his hours reflected?
BB p356	5691	< [-YOU-] > [- {+O+} -] [- {+Come+} -] < [-b-] > [- {+B+} -] ards of ages hence! [-when you refer to me,-] mind not so much my poems,
BB p356	5692	[-Nor speak of me that I prophesied of The States, and led them the way of their glories; -]
BB p356	5693	[-But come,-] [-I will take you down underneath this impassive exterior—I will tell you what to say of me: -]
BB p356	5694	{+But+} Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover,
BB p356	5695	The friend, the lover's portrait, of whom his friend, his lover, was fondest,
BB p356	5696	[-Who was not {+so+} proud of his songs, but of the measure- less ocean of love within him [-—-] {+,+} and freely poured it forth, -]
BB p356	5697	Who often walked lonesome walks, thinking of his dear friends, his lovers,
BB p356	5698	Who pensive, away from one he loved, often lay sleep- less and dissatisfied at night,
BB p356	5699	Who knew too well the sick, sick dread lest the one he loved might secretly be indifferent to him,
BB p357	5700	Whose happiest days were far away, through fields, in woods, on hills, {+¶+}he and another, wandering hand in hand, they twain, apart from other men,
BB p357	5701	Who oft as he sauntered the streets, curved with his arm the shoulder of his friend [-—-] {+¶+} while the arm of his friend rested upon him also.
BB p357	5702	[- {+Not+} -] WHEN I heard [- {+t {+had+} received+} -] {+of the plaudits given to my name+} [-at the close of the day how my name had been received with plaudits-] in the capitol, [- {+ +} -] {+¶+} < [- [-s-] {+S+} till it was not a happy night for me that fol- lowed; -] >
BB p357	5703	< [-And else,-] > [- {+Nor+} -] when I caroused, < [-or-] > [- {+nor+} -] when my plans were accomplished, < [-still I-] > was [- {+I+} -] < [-not-] > happy;
BB p357	5704	{+—+}But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, {+¶+}refreshed, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn [-,-] {+;+}
BB p357	5705	When I saw the full moon in the west grow pale and disappear in the morning light,
BB p357	5706	When I wandered alone over the beach, and, undress- ing, bathed, {+¶+}laughing with the cool waters, and saw the sun rise,
BB p357	5707	And when I thought how my dear friend, my lover, was on his way coming, O then I was happy;
BB p357	5708	{+—+}O then each breath tasted sweeter—and < [-all that day-] > my food nourished me more < [-—-] >And the beautiful day passed < [-well-] >,
BB p357	5709	And the next came with equal joy—And with the next, at evening, came my friend;
BB p358	5710	And that night, while all was still, I heard the waters roll slowly continually up the shores,
BB p358	5711	I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands, [-as directed to me,-] whispering, to congratulate me,
BB p358	5712	For the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night,
BB p358	5713	In the stillness, in the autumn moonbeams, his face was inclined toward me,
BB p358	5714	And his arm lay lightly around my breast—And that night I was happy.
BB p358	5715	ARE you the new person drawn toward me [-,-] {+?+} [-and asking something [-significant-] {+more+} from me[-?-] {+than from others?+} -]
BB p358	5716	To begin with, take warning—I am probably far different from what you suppose;
BB p358	5717	{+And+} Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
BB p358	5718	{+And+} Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover?
BB p358	5719	[-Do you-] {+And+} think the friendship of me would be unalloyed satisfaction?
BB p358	5720	[-Do you-] {+And+} suppose I am trusty and faithful?
BB p358	5721	[-Do you-] {+And+} see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
BB p358	5722	[-Do you-] {+And+} suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
BB p358	5723	Have you no thought, O dreamer, that [-it may be all maya, illusion? O-] the next step may precipitate you [-!-] {+?+}
BB p359	5724	O let some past deceived one hiss in your ears, how many have prest on the same as you are pressing now,
BB p359	5725	{+(+} [-How-] {+Ah+} many have fondly supposed what you are sup- posing now—only to be disappointed.{+)+}
BB p359	5726	[-CALAMUS taste,-]
BB p359	5727	(For I must change the strain—these are not to be pensive leaves, but leaves of joy,)
BB p359	5728	Roots and leaves [-unlike any but-] themselves[-,-] {+alone are these;+}
BB p359	5729	Scents brought to men and women from the wild woods, and from the pond-side,
BB p359	5730	Breast-sorrel and pinks of love—fingers that wind around tighter than vines,
BB p359	5731	Gushes from the throats of birds, hid in the foliage of trees, as the sun is risen,
BB p359	5732	Breezes of land and love—Breezes set from living shores out to you on the living sea—to you, O sailors!
BB p359	5733	Frost-mellowed berries, and Third Month twigs, of- fered fresh to young persons wandering out in the fields when the winter breaks up,
BB p359	5734	Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are,
BB p359	5735	Buds to be unfolded on the old terms,
BB p359	5736	If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you,
BB p359	5737	If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall branches and trees,
BB p360	5738	They are comprised in you just as much as in them- selves—perhaps more than in themselves,
BB p360	5739	They are not comprised in one season or succession, but many successions,
BB p360	5740	They have come slowly up out of the earth and me, and are to come slowly up out of you.
BB p360	5741	NOT heat flames up and consumes,
BB p360	5742	Not sea-waves hurry in and out,
BB p360	5743	Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, [- {+¶+} -] {+¶+} bears lightly along white down-balls of myriads of seeds, wafted, {+¶+}sailing gracefully, to drop where they may [-,-] [- {+;+} -]
BB p360	5744	Not these [-—-] {+¶+} O none of these, more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love!
BB p360	5745	O none, more than I, hurrying in and out;
BB p360	5746	{+—+}Does the tide hurry, seeking something, and never give up? O I the same;
BB p360	5747	{+—+}O nor down-balls, nor perfumes, nor the high rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air,
BB p360	5748	Any more than my Soul is borne through the open air,
BB p360	5749	Wafted in all directions, O love, for friendship, for you.
BB p361	5750	[-O DROPS of me!-]{+—+} trickle, slow drops [-,-] {+;+} [- {+from eyes forehead and breast.+} -]{+ [-the-] {+my+} blue veins leaving,+}
BB p361	5751	Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops,
BB p361	5752	From wounds made to free you whence you were prisoned,
BB p361	5753	From my face—from my forehead and lips,
BB p361	5754	From my [-breast-] {+heart+} —from within where I was con- cealed—Press forth, red drops—confession drops [-,-] {+;+}
BB p361	5755	Stain every page—stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops [-,-] {+;+}
BB p361	5756	Let them know your scarlet heat—let them glisten [-,-] {+;+}
BB p361	5757	Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet [-,-] {+;+}
BB p361	5758	Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleed- ing drops [-,-] {+;+}
BB p361	5759	Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
BB p361	5760	WHO is now reading this?
BB p361	5761	May-be one is now reading [-this-] who knows some wrong-doing of my past life,
BB p361	5762	Or may-be a stranger is reading this who has secretly loved me,
BB p361	5763	Or may-be one who meets all my grand assumptions and egotisms with derision,
BB p361	5764	Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.
BB p362	5765	As if I were not puzzled at myself!
BB p362	5766	Or as if I never deride myself! (O conscience-struck! O self-convicted!)
BB p362	5767	Or as if I do not secretly love strangers! (O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it;)
BB p362	5768	Or as if I did not see, perfectly well, interior in myself, the stuff of wrong-doing,
BB p362	5769	Or as if it could cease transpiring from me until it must cease.
BB p362	5770	OF him I love day and night, I dreamed I heard he was dead,
BB p362	5771	And I dreamed I went where they had buried him I love—but he was not in that place,
BB p362	5772	And I dreamed I wandered, searching among burial- places, to find him,
BB p362	5773	And I found that every place was a burial-place,
BB p362	5774	The houses full of life were equally full of death, (This house is now,)
BB p362	5775	The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, {+¶+}the Chicago, < [-Boston, Philadelphia,-] > [-the Manna- hatta,-] were as full of the dead as of the living,
BB p362	5776	And fuller, O vastly fuller, of the dead than of the living;
BB p362	5777	{+[+}—And what I dreamed I will henceforth tell to every person and age,
BB p362	5778	And I stand henceforth bound to what I dreamed;
BB p362	5779	And now I am willing to disregard burial-places, and dispense with them,
BB p363	5780	And if the memorials of the dead were put up < [-indif- ferently everywhere,-] >{+¶+} even in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied,
BB p363	5781	And if < [-the corpse of any one I love,-] > [-or if my own corpse,-] be duly rendered to powder, and poured in the sea, I shall be satisfied,
BB p363	5782	Or if it be distributed to the winds, I shall be sat- isfied.
BB p363	5783	CITY of [-my-] [- {+ daily +} -] {+orgies,+} walks and joys!
BB p363	5784	City whom that I have lived and sung [-there-] {+in your [-streets-] {+midst+} +} will one day make you illustrious,
BB p363	5785	Not the pageants of you—not your shifting tab- leaux, your spectacles, repay me,
BB p363	5786	Not the interminable rows of your houses—nor the ships at the wharves,
BB p363	5787	Nor the processions in the streets, nor the bright win- dows, with goods in them,
BB p363	5788	Nor to converse with learned persons, or bear my share in the soiree or feast;
BB p363	5789	Not those—but, as I pass, O Manhattan! your fre- quent and swift flash of eyes [-offering me love,-]
BB p363	5790	Offering [-me the-] response of my own—these repay me,
BB p363	5791	Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
BB p364	5792	MIND you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
BB p364	5793	Long I minded them, but hence I will not—for I have adopted models for myself, and now offer them to The Lands.
BB p364	5794	Behold this swarthy{+,+} [- {+face+} -] [-and-] [-unrefined-] {+this unrefined+} face—these gray [- {+and drowsy+} -] eyes,
BB p364	5795	This beard—the white wool[-,-] {+in tufts,+} unclipt upon my neck,
BB p364	5796	My brown hands, and the silent manner of me, with- out charm;
BB p364	5797	{+—+}Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and [-ever-] at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with [-robust-] love,
BB p364	5798	And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, [-kiss him in return;-]
BB p364	5799	[-We-] observe {+also+} that salute of American comrades, [-land and sea, -]
BB p364	5800	We are those two natural and nonchalant persons.
BB p364	5801	I SAW in Louisiana a live-oak growing,
BB p364	5802	All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches,
BB p364	5803	Without any companion it grew there, uttering joyous leaves of dark green,
BB p364	5804	And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself,
BB p365	5805	But I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not,
BB p365	5806	And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss,
BB p365	5807	And brought it away—and I have placed it in sight in my room,
BB p365	5808	It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends,
BB p365	5809	(For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,)
BB p365	5810	Yet it remains to me a curious token—it makes me think of manly love;
BB p365	5811	For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana, solitary, in a wide flat space,
BB p365	5812	Uttering joyous leaves all its life, without a friend, a lover, near,
BB p365	5813	I know very well I could not.
BB p365	5814	{+That+} MUSIC always round me, unceasing, unbeginning— yet long untaught I did not hear,
BB p365	5815	But now the chorus I hear, and am elated,
BB p365	5816	A tenor, strong, ascending, with power and health, with glad notes of day-break I hear,
BB p365	5817	A soprano, at intervals, sailing buoyantly over [-the tops of-] immense waves,
BB p365	5818	A transparent base, shuddering lusciously under and through the universe,
BB p366	5819	The < [-triumphant tutti—the-] > funeral wailings, with sweet flutes and violins—[-All-] [-these I fill myself with; -] {+such now I hear;+}
BB p366	5820	[-I hear-] [-n-] {+N+} ot the volumes of sound merely—I am moved by the exquisite meanings,
BB p366	5821	I listen to the different voices winding in and out, striving, {+¶+} contending with fiery vehemence to excel each other in emotion,
BB p366	5822	I [-do not-] think the performers know {+not+} themselves—But now I think I begin to know them.
BB p366	5823	PASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
BB p366	5824	You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (It comes to me, as of a dream,)
BB p366	5825	I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
BB p366	5826	All is recalled as we flit by each other, fluid, affec- tionate, chaste, matured,
BB p366	5827	You grew up with me, were a boy with me, or a girl with me,
BB p366	5828	I ate with you, and slept with you—your body has become not yours only, nor left my body mine only,
BB p366	5829	You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass—you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
BB p366	5830	I am not to speak to you—I am to think of you when I sit alone, or wake at night alone,
BB p367	5831	I am to wait—I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
BB p367	5832	I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
BB p367	5833	THIS moment as [-I sit alone,-] yearning and thoughtful, {+I sit alone,+} {+¶+} it seems to me there are other men in other lands, yearning and thoughtful;
BB p367	5834	It seems to me I can look over and behold them, in Germany, Italy, France, Spain [-—-] {+¶+} Or far, far away, in China, or in Russia or India—talking other dialects;
BB p367	5835	And it seems to me if I could know those men [-better-], I should become attached to them, as I do to men in my own lands,
BB p367	5836	It seems to me they are as wise, beautiful, benevolent, as any in my own lands;
BB p367	5837	O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
BB p367	5838	I know I should be happy with them.
BB p367	5839	I HEAR it is charged against me that I seek to destroy institutions;
BB p367	5840	But really I am neither for nor against institutions,
BB p367	5841	(What indeed have I in common with them?—Or what with the destruction of them?)
BB p368	5842	Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard,
BB p368	5843	And in the fields and woods, and above every keel little or large, that dents the water,
BB p368	5844	Without edifices, or rules, or trustees, or any ar- gument,
BB p368	5845	The institution of the dear love of comrades.
BB p368	5846	THE prairie-grass [-dividing-] {+accepting+} —its [-own-] {+special+} odor breathing,
BB p368	5847	I demand of it the spiritual corresponding,
BB p368	5848	Demand the most copious and close companionship of men,
BB p368	5849	Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings,
BB p368	5850	Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh, nutritious,
BB p368	5851	Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with freedom and command—leading, not following,
BB p368	5852	[-Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint,-] [-choice and chary of its love-power, -]
BB p368	5853	Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents and Governors, as to say, Who are you?
BB p368	5854	Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrained, never obedient,
BB p368	5855	Those of inland America.
BB p369	5856	WE two boys together clinging,
BB p369	5857	One the other never leaving,
BB p369	5858	Up and down the roads going—North and South excursions making,
BB p369	5859	Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutch- ing,
BB p369	5860	Armed and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, lov- ing,
BB p369	5861	No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldier- ing, thieving, threatening,
BB p369	5862	Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
BB p369	5863	With birds singing—With fishes swimming—With trees branching and leafing,
BB p369	5864	Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
BB p369	5865	Fulfilling our foray.
BB p369	5866	O LOVE!
BB p369	5867	O dying—always dying!
BB p369	5868	O the burials of me, past and present!
BB p369	5869	O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperi- ous as ever!
BB p370	5870	O < [-me,-] > what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not —I am content;),
BB p370	5871	O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which [-I turn and look-] {+turning and looking+} at, where I cast them!
BB p370	5872	To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind!
BB p370	5873	WHEN I perus [-e-] {+'d+} the [-conquered-] fame of heroes, {+¶+} {+When I heard of the+} [-and the-] victories of [-mighty-] {+renown'd+} mighty generals, I [-do-] {+did+} not envy the generals,
BB p370	5874	Nor the President in his Presidency, nor the rich in his great house;
BB p370	5875	{+—+}But when I read of the brotherhood of lovers, how it was with them,
BB p370	5876	How through life, through dangers, odium, un- changing, long and long,
BB p370	5877	Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, {+¶+} how affectionate and faithful they were,
BB p370	5878	[- {+ah,+} -] {+—+}Then I [-am-] {+was+} pensive [-—-] {+¶+} I hastily [-put down-] {+dropt+} the book, and walk{+'d+} away, filled with the bitterest envy.
BB p371	5879	[-ONE-] {+A+} [-flitting-] glimpse, {+as+} caught through an interstice,
BB p371	5880	Of [-a crowd of-] workmen and drivers [-in a bar-room,-] {+late of a winter night+} around the stove, {+¶+} {+in a bar room,+} [-late of a winter night-]—And I unremarked, seated in a corner;
BB p371	5881	{+—+}Of a youth who loves me, and whom I love, silently approaching, [-and-] {+¶+} seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand;
BB p371	5882	{+—+}A long while, amid the noises of coming and going —of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
BB p371	5883	There we two, content, happy in {+just+} being together, speaking [-little,-] perhaps not a word.
BB p371	5884	A PROMISE [-and gift-] to California,
BB p371	5885	Also to the great Pastoral Plains, < [-and for Oregon:-] > [- {+inland +} -] [- {+and Washington+} -]
BB p371	5886	Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel to you, to remain, to teach robust American love;
BB p371	5887	For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you, inland, and along the Western Sea [-,-] {+;+}
BB p371	5888	{+(+}For The[-se-] States tend inland, and toward the Western Sea—and I will also.{+)+}
BB p372	5889	WHAT ship, puzzled at sea, cons for the [-true-] reck- oning?
BB p372	5890	Or, coming in, to avoid the bars, and follow the chan- nel, a perfect pilot needs?
BB p372	5891	{+—+}Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most per- fect pilot,
BB p372	5892	Whom, in a little boat, putting off, and rowing, I, hailing you, offer.
BB p372	5893	What place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the siege?
BB p372	5894	Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave, immortal,
BB p372	5895	And with him horse and foot—and parks of artillery,
BB p372	5896	And artillerymen, the deadliest that ever [-fired-] {+sighted+} gun.
BB p372	5897	WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
BB p372	5898	The battle-ship, perfect-model'd, majestic, that I saw pass the offing to-day under full sail?
BB p372	5899	The splendors of the past day? Or the splendor of the night that envelops me?
BB p372	5900	Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?—No;
BB p372	5901	But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of the crowd, parting the part- ing of dear friends,
BB p373	5902	The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately kissed him,
BB p373	5903	While the one to depart, tightly prest the one to remain in his arms.
BB p373	5904	NO labor-saving machine,
BB p373	5905	Nor discovery have I made,
BB p373	5906	Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital{+,+} [-or library,-]
BB p373	5907	Nor [- {+ +} -] reminiscence of any deed of courage, for America [-,-] {+;+}
BB p373	5908	No < [-r-] > literary success, [-nor intellect-]—no[-r-] book [-for-] {+renown'd on+} the book-shelf;
BB p373	5909	Only [-these-] {+a few+} carols, vibrating through the air, I leave,
BB p373	5910	For comrades and lovers.
BB p373	5911	I DREAMED [-in a dream, I saw {+¶+} a city-] [- {+ +} -] {+I saw a [-wondrous-] city,+} invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,
BB p373	5912	[-I dreamed that was the new City of Friends,-]
BB p373	5913	Nothing was greater there than the quality of [-robust-] love—it led the rest,
BB p373	5914	It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city,
BB p373	5915	And in all their looks and words.
BB p374	5916	[-TO you of New England,-] {+To the East and to the West,+}
BB p374	5917	To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
BB p374	5918	To the Kanadian of the north—to the Southerner I love,
BB p374	5919	These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself— the germs are in all men;
BB p374	5920	I believe the main purport of These States is to found a superb friendship, exalt, previously unknown,
BB p374	5921	Because I perceive it waits, and has been always wait- ing, latent in all men.
BB p374	5922	EARTH! my likeness!
BB p374	5923	Though you look so impassive, ample and spheric there,
BB p374	5924	I now suspect that is not all;
BB p374	5925	I now suspect there is something fierce in you, eligible to burst forth;
BB p374	5926	For an athlete is enamoured of me—and I of him,
BB p374	5927	But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
BB p374	5928	I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.
BB p375	5929	A LEAF for hand in hand!
BB p375	5930	You natural persons old and young! You on the Eastern Sea, and you on the Western!
BB p375	5931	You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi!
BB p375	5932	You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs!
BB p375	5933	You twain! And all processions moving along the streets!
BB p375	5934	I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it com- mon for you to walk hand in hand.
BB p375	5935	[-PRIMEVAL my love for the-] {+Fast anchor'd eternal [-my-] {+O+} love—O+} woman I love,
BB p375	5936	O bride ! O wife ! more resistless[-, more enduring-] than I can tell, the thought of you !
BB p375	5937	< [-Then-] > [- {+Though+} -] separate, as disembodied, [- [-the-] {+&+} -] [-purest born,-] {+or another {+born+} [-and purer;-]+}
BB p375	5938	[-The-] ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
BB p375	5939	I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man,
BB p375	5940	O sharer of my roving life.
BB p375	5941	SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturned love;
BB p375	5942	But now I think there is no unreturned love—the pay is certain, one way or another,
BB p376	5943	Doubtless I could not have perceived the universe, or written one of my poems, {+¶+} if I had not freely given myself to comrades, to love.
BB p376	5944	(I loved {+a certain person+} [-one-] ardently, and my love was not returned,
BB p376	5945	But out of it I have written these songs.)
BB p376	5946	THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek- ing a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
BB p376	5947	How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits,
BB p376	5948	How often I question and doubt whether that is really me;
BB p376	5949	But in these, and among my lovers, and carolling my songs,
BB p376	5950	O I never doubt whether that is really me.
BB p376	5951	Picking me out by cunning and secret signs
BB p376	5952	[-AMONG the men and women,-] {+I perceive among+} the multitude, {+¶+}[-I per- ceive-] {+¶+} [-o-] {+O+} ne {+has arrived,+} [-picking me out by secret and divine signs, -]
BB p376	5953	Acknowledging [-none else [-—-] {+¶+} not-] {+not+} parent, {+nor+} wife, hus- band, brother, {+or+} child, any nearer than I am;
BB p376	5954	{+—+}Some are baffled—But that one is not—that one knows me.
BB p376	5955	Lover and perfect equal!
BB p376	5956	I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections,
BB p376	5957	And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you.
BB p377	5958	O tan-faced prairie boy!
BB p377	5959	O boy of the west! to you O my loving boy!
BB p377	5960	< [-TO [-the-] you[-ng-] [-man,-] many things [-to absorb, to engraft, to develop,-] I teach,-] > < [-to help-] > [- {+To help you+} -] [-him-] {+you+} become élève of mine< [-,-] >
BB p377	5961	[-But-] {+For all that+} if blood like mine circle not in [-his-] {+your+} veins,
BB p377	5962	If [-he-] {+you+} be not silently selected by lovers, and do not silently select lovers,
BB p377	5963	Of what use [-is-] {+were+} it [-that he seek-] to become élève of mine?
BB p377	5964	O YOU whom I < [-often and-] > silently come where you are, < [-that-] > I may be with you,
BB p377	5965	As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
BB p377	5966	Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
BB p377	5967	HERE my last words, and the most baffling,
BB p377	5968	[-Here-] {+Oft+} the frailest leaves of me, [-and-] {+are+} yet my strongest- lasting,
BB p377	5969	[-Here-] I shade down and hide my thoughts—I do not expose them,
BB p377	5970	And yet they expose me more than all my other poems.
BB p378	5971	FULL of life, [-sweet-blooded,-] compact, visible,
BB p378	5972	I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,
BB p378	5973	To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence,
BB p378	5974	To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you.
BB p378	5975	When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible;
BB p378	5976	Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me, [- {+(is e?)+} -]
BB p378	5977	Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover;
BB p378	5978	Be it as if I were with you. Be not too certain but I am now with you.
BB p379	5979	Crossing Brooklyn ferry, the day declining
BB p379	5980	FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you, face to face;
BB p379	5981	Clouds of the west! sun [-there-] half an hour high! I see you also face to face.
BB p379	5982	Crowds of men and women attired in the usual cos- tumes! how curious you are to me!
BB p379	5983	On the [-ferry--]boats, the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose,
BB p379	5984	{+(+}And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my med- itations, than you might suppose.{+)+}
BB p379	5985	The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day,
BB p379	5986	The simple, compact, well-joined scheme—myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated, yet part of the scheme,
BB p379	5987	The similitudes of the past, and those of the future,
BB p379	5988	The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings—on the walk in the street, and the passage over the river,
BB p380	5989	The current rushing so swiftly, and swimming with me far away,
BB p380	5990	The others that are to follow me, the ties between me and them,
BB p380	5991	The certainty of others—the life, love, sight, hear- ing of others.
BB p380	5992	Others will enter the gates of the ferry, and cross from shore to shore,
BB p380	5993	Others will watch the run of the flood-tide,
BB p380	5994	Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east,
BB p380	5995	Others will see the islands large and small,
BB p380	5996	Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high,
BB p380	5997	A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
BB p380	5998	Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood- tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
BB p380	5999	It avails not, neither time or place—instance avails not,
BB p380	6000	I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence,
BB p380	6001	I project myself—also I return—I am with you, and know how it is.
BB p380	6002	Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
BB p380	6003	Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
BB p380	6004	Just as you are refreshed by the gladness of the river, and the bright flow, I was refreshed,
BB p381	6005	Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood, yet was hurried,
BB p381	6006	Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stemmed pipes of steamboats, I look [-ed-] {+t+} .
BB p381	6007	I too many and many a time crossed the river, the sun half an hour high,
BB p381	6008	I watched the Twelfth Month sea-gulls—I saw them high in the air, floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
BB p381	6009	I saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies, and left the rest in strong shadow,
BB p381	6010	I saw the slow-wheeling circles, and the gradual edging toward the south.
BB p381	6011	I too saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water,
BB p381	6012	Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
BB p381	6013	Look [-ed-] {+t+} at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sun-lit water,
BB p381	6014	Look [-ed-] {+t+} on the haze on the hills southward and south- westward,
BB p381	6015	Look [-ed-] {+t+} on the vapor as it flew in fleeces tinged with violet,
BB p381	6016	Look [-ed-] {+t+} toward the lower bay to notice the arriving ships,
BB p381	6017	Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me,
BB p381	6018	Saw the white sails of schooners and sloops, saw the ships at anchor,
BB p381	6019	The sailors at work in the rigging, or out astride the spars,
BB p382	6020	The round masts, the swinging motion of the hulls, the slender serpentine pennants,
BB p382	6021	The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses,
BB p382	6022	The white wake left by the passage, the quick trem- ulous whirl of the wheels,
BB p382	6023	The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sun-set,
BB p382	6024	The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening,
BB p382	6025	The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite store-houses by the docks,
BB p382	6026	On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flanked on each side by the barges—the hay-boat, the belated lighter,
BB p382	6027	On the neighboring shore, the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night,
BB p382	6028	Casting, their flicker of black, contrasted with wild red and yellow light, over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of streets.
BB p382	6029	These, and all else, were to me the same as they are to you,
BB p382	6030	I project myself a moment to tell you—also I return.
BB p382	6031	I loved well those cities,
BB p382	6032	I loved well the stately and rapid river,
BB p382	6033	The men and women I saw were all near to me,
BB p382	6034	Others the same—others who look back on me, because I looked forward to them,
BB p382	6035	(The time will come, though I stop here to-day and to-night.)
BB p383	6036	What is it, then, between us?
BB p383	6037	What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
BB p383	6038	Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not.
BB p383	6039	I too lived, {+—Brooklyn, of ample hills, was mine,+} (I was of old Brooklyn,)
BB p383	6040	I too walked the streets of Manhattan Island, and bathed in the waters around it,
BB p383	6041	I too felt the curious abrupt questionings stir within me,
BB p383	6042	In the day, among crowds of people, sometimes they came upon me,
BB p383	6043	In my walks home late at night, or as I lay in my bed, they came upon me.
BB p383	6044	I too had been struck from the float forever held in solution,
BB p383	6045	I too had received identity by my body,
BB p383	6046	That I was, I knew was of my body—and what I should be, I knew I should be of my body.
BB p383	6047	It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,
BB p383	6048	The dark threw patches down upon me also,
BB p383	6049	The best I had done seemed to me blank and sus- picious,
BB p383	6050	My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre? would not people laugh at me?
BB p383	6051	It is not you alone who know what it is to be evil,
BB p383	6052	I am he who knew what it was to be evil,
BB p384	6053	I too knitted the old knot of contrariety,
BB p384	6054	Blabbed, blushed, resented, lied, stole, grudged,
BB p384	6055	Had guile, anger, lust, hot wishes I dared not speak,
BB p384	6056	Was wayward, vain, greedy, shallow, sly, cowardly, malignant,
BB p384	6057	The wolf, the snake, the hog, not wanting in me,
BB p384	6058	The cheating look, the frivolous word, the adulterous wish, not wanting,
BB p384	6059	Refusals, hates, postponements, meanness, laziness, none of these wanting.
BB p384	6060	But I was [-a-] Manhattanese, [-free,-] friendly, and proud
BB p384	6061	I was called by my nighest name by clear loud voices of young men as they saw me approaching or passing,
BB p384	6062	Felt their arms on my neck as I stood, or the neg- ligent leaning of their flesh against me as I sat,
BB p384	6063	Saw many I loved in the street, or ferry-boat, or pub- lic assembly, yet never told them a word,
BB p384	6064	Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laugh- ing, gnawing, sleeping,
BB p384	6065	Played the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
BB p384	6066	The same old rôle, the rôle that is what we make it, as great as we like,
BB p384	6067	Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
BB p384	6068	Closer yet I approach you,
BB p384	6069	What thought you have of me, I had as much of you —I laid in my stores in advance,
BB p384	6070	I considered long and seriously of you before you were born.
BB p385	6071	Who was to know what should come home to me?
BB p385	6072	Who knows but I am enjoying this?
BB p385	6073	Who knows but I am as good as looking at you now, for all you cannot see me?
BB p385	6074	It is not you alone, nor I alone,
BB p385	6075	Not a few races, nor a few generations, nor a few centuries,
BB p385	6076	It is that each came, or comes, or shall come, from its due emission, {+¶+}without fail, either now, or then, or henceforth.
BB p385	6077	Every thing indicates—the smallest does, and the largest does,
BB p385	6078	A necessary film envelops all, and envelops the Soul for a proper time.
BB p385	6079	Now I am curious what sight can ever be more stately and admirable to me than my mast-hemm'd Man- hatta,
BB p385	6080	My river and sun-set, and my scallop-edged waves of flood-tide,
BB p385	6081	The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter;
BB p385	6082	Curious what Gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand,{+¶+} [-and-] {+That+} with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as I approach,
BB p385	6083	Curious what is more subtle than this which ties me to the woman or man that looks in my face,
BB p385	6084	Which fuses me into you now, and pours my meaning into you.
BB p386	6085	We understand, then, do we not?
BB p386	6086	What I promised without mentioning it, have you not accepted?
BB p386	6087	What the study could not teach—what the preaching could not accomplish is accomplished, is it not?
BB p386	6088	What the push of reading could not start is started by me personally, is it not?
BB p386	6089	Flow on, river! flow with the flood-tide, and ebb with the ebb-tide!
BB p386	6090	Frolic on, crested and scallop-edged waves!
BB p386	6091	Gorgeous clouds of the sunset! drench with your splendor me, or the men and women generations after me;
BB p386	6092	Cross from shore to shore, countless crowds of pas- sengers!
BB p386	6093	Stand up, tall masts of Mannahatta!—stand up, beautiful hills of Brooklyn!
BB p386	6094	Bully for you! you proud, friendly, free Manhat- tanese!
BB p386	6095	Throb, baffled and curious brain! throw out questions and answers!
BB p386	6096	Suspend here and everywhere, eternal float of solu- tion!
BB p386	6097	Blab, blush, lie, steal, you or I or any one after us!
BB p386	6098	Gaze, loving and thirsting eyes, in the house, or street, or public assembly!
BB p386	6099	Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!
BB p386	6100	Live, old life! play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
BB p386	6101	Play the old rôle, the rôle that is great or small, according as one makes it!
BB p387	6102	Consider, you who peruse me, whether I may not in unknown ways be looking upon you;
BB p387	6103	Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current;
BB p387	6104	Fly on, sea-birds! fly sideways, or wheel in large circles high in the air;
BB p387	6105	Receive the summer-sky, you water! and faithfully hold it, till all downcast eyes have time to take it from you;
BB p387	6106	Diverge, fine spokes of light, from the shape of my head, or any one's head, in the sun-lit water;
BB p387	6107	Come on, ships from the lower bay! pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters!
BB p387	6108	Flaunt away, flags of all nations! be duly lowered at sunset;
BB p387	6109	Burn high your fires, foundry chimneys! cast black shadows at nightfall! cast red and yellow light over the tops of the houses;
BB p387	6110	Appearances, now or henceforth, indicate what you are;
BB p387	6111	You necessary film, continue to envelop the Soul;
BB p387	6112	About my body for me, and your body for you, be hung our divinest aromas;
BB p387	6113	Thrive, cities! bring your freight, bring your shows, ample and sufficient rivers;
BB p387	6114	Expand, being than which none else is perhaps more spiritual;
BB p387	6115	Keep your places, objects than which none else is more lasting.
BB p387	6116	We descend upon you and all things—we arrest you all,
BB p387	6117	We realize the Soul only by you, you faithful solids and fluids,
BB p388	6118	Through you color, form, location, sublimity, ideality,
BB p388	6119	Through you every proof, comparison, and all the suggestions and determinations of ourselves.
BB p388	6120	You have waited, you always wait, you dumb, beauti- ful ministers! you novices!
BB p388	6121	We receive you with free sense at last, and are insatiate henceforward,
BB p388	6122	Not you any more shall be able to foil us, or with- hold yourselves from us,
BB p388	6123	We use you, and do not cast you aside—we plant you permanently within us,
BB p388	6124	We fathom you not—we love you—there is per- fection in you also,
BB p388	6125	You furnish your parts toward eternity,
BB p388	6126	Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the Soul.
BB p389	6127	[-O MAGNET-SOUTH!-] O glistening, perfumed South! {+My South! O magnet‑south+} [-My South!-]
BB p389	6128	O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
BB p389	6129	O dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers;
BB p389	6130	Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through swamps,
BB p389	6131	Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altama- haw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa, and the Sabine;
BB p389	6132	O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my Soul to haunt their banks again,
BB p389	6133	Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes—I float on the Okeechobee—I cross the hummock land, or through pleasant openings, or dense forests,
BB p389	6134	I see the parrots in the woods—I see the papaw tree and the blossoming titi;
BB p389	6135	Again, sailing in my coaster, on deck, I coast off Georgia—I coast up the Carolinas,
BB p389	6136	I 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;
BB p389	6137	I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland,
BB p390	6138	O the cotton plant! the growing fields of rice, sugar, hemp!
BB p390	6139	The cactus, guarded with thorns—the laurel-tree, with large white flowers,
BB p390	6140	The range afar—the richness and barrenness—the old woods charged with mistletoe and trailing moss,
BB p390	6141	The piney odor and the gloom—the awful natural stillness, (Here in these dense swamps the free- booter carries his gun, and the fugitive slave has his concealed hut;)
BB p390	6142	O the strange fascination of these half-known, half- impassable swamps, infested by reptiles, resound- ing with the bellow of the alligator, the sad noises of the night-owl and the wild-cat, and the whirr of the rattlesnake;
BB p390	6143	The mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing all the forenoon—singing through the moon-lit night,
BB p390	6144	The humming-bird, the wild-turkey, the raccoon, the opossum;
BB p390	6145	A Tennessee corn-field—the tall, graceful, long-leaved corn—slender, flapping, bright green, with tas- sels—with beautiful ears, each well-sheathed in its husk,
BB p390	6146	An Arkansas prairie—a sleeping lake, or still bayou;
BB p390	6147	O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs—I can stand them not—I will depart;
BB p390	6148	O to be a Virginian, where I grew up! O to be a Carolinian!
BB p390	6149	O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Ten- nessee, and never wander more!
BB p391	6150	WHOEVER you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
BB p391	6151	I fear those realities are to melt from under your feet and hands;
BB p391	6152	Even now, your [-features,-] joys, [-speech, house, trade,-] manners, troubles, follies, [-costume, crimes,-] dis- sipate away from you,
BB p391	6153	Your true Soul and body appear before me,
BB p391	6154	They stand forth out of affairs—out of [-commerce, shops, law, science,-] work, [-farms,-] clothes, the house, [-medicine, print,-] {+¶+}buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.
BB p391	6155	Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem,
BB p391	6156	I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
BB p391	6157	I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
BB p391	6158	O I have been dilatory and dumb,
BB p391	6159	I should have made my way straight to you long ago,
BB p391	6160	I should have blabbed nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.
BB p392	6161	I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
BB p392	6162	None have understood you, but I understand you,
BB p392	6163	None have done justice to you—you have not done justice to yourself,
BB p392	6164	None but have found you imperfect—I only find no imperfection in you,
BB p392	6165	None but would subordinate you—I only am he who will never consent to subordinate you,
BB p392	6166	I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, {+¶+}beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.
BB p392	6167	Painters have painted their swarming groups, and the centre figure of all,
BB p392	6168	From the head of the centre figure spreading a nim- bus of gold-colored light,
BB p392	6169	But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head with- out its nimbus of gold-colored light,
BB p392	6170	From my hand, from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing forever.
BB p392	6171	O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
BB p392	6172	You have not known what you are—you have slum- bered upon yourself all your life,
BB p392	6173	Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time [-,-] {+;+}
BB p392	6174	What you have done returns already in mockeries,
BB p392	6175	{+(+}Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return?{+)+}
BB p392	6176	The mockeries are not you,
BB p392	6177	Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk,
BB p392	6178	I pursue you where none else has pursued you,
BB p393	6179	Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustomed routine, {+¶+}if these conceal you from others, or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p393	6180	The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure com- plexion, if these balk others, they do not balk me [-,-] {+;+}
BB p393	6181	The pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunken- ness, greed, premature death, all these I part aside [-,-] [- {+;+} -] {+.+}
BB p393	6182	I track through your windings and turnings—I come upon you where you thought eye should never come upon you. [- {+ (the Sou)+} -] {+your Soul—that is really you.+}
BB p393	6183	There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you,
BB p393	6184	There is no virtue, no beauty, in man or woman, but as good is in you,
BB p393	6185	No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you,
BB p393	6186	No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.
BB p393	6187	As for me, I give nothing to any one, except I give the like carefully to you,
BB p393	6188	I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory of you.
BB p393	6189	Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
BB p393	6190	These shows of the east and west are tame compared to you,
BB p393	6191	These immense meadows—these interminable rivers —you are immense and interminable as they,
BB p394	6192	These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution [-—-] {+¶+} you are he or she who is master or mistress over them,
BB p394	6193	Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.
BB p394	6194	The hopples fall from your ankles—you find an un- failing sufficiency,
BB p394	6195	Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges itself,
BB p394	6196	Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are pro- vided, nothing is scanted,
BB p394	6197	Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.
BB p394	6198	COURAGE! my brother or my sister!
BB p394	6199	Keep on! Liberty is to be subserv [-e-] {+'+} d, whatever occurs;
BB p394	6200	That is nothing, that is quell [-e-] {+'+} d by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
BB p394	6201	Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,
BB p394	6202	Or the show of the tushes of power—soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
BB p394	6203	What we believe in waits latent forever{+¶+} through {+all the continents,+} [-Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia, Cuba,-] {+¶+} and all the islands and archi- pelagoes of the sea.
BB p395	6204	< [-What we believe in-] > invites no one, promises nothing, {+¶+} < [- [-s-] {+S+} its in calmness-] > [-and light-], is positive and com- posed, knows no discouragement,
BB p395	6205	Wait [-s-] {+ing+} patiently {+waiting+} its time{+.+} [-—a year—a century—a hundred centuries.-]
BB p395	6206	The battle rages with many a loud alarm and fre- quent advance and retreat,
BB p395	6207	The infidel triumphs—or supposes he triumphs,
BB p395	6208	The prison, scaffold, garrote, hand-cuffs, iron necklace and anklet, lead-balls, do their work,
BB p395	6209	The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,
BB p395	6210	The great speakers and writers are exiled—they lie sick in distant lands,
BB p395	6211	The cause is asleep—the strongest throats are still, choked with their own blood,
BB p395	6212	The young men drop their eyelashes toward the ground when they meet [-,-] {+;+}
BB p395	6213	But for all this, liberty has not gone out of the place, nor the infidel entered into possession.
BB p395	6214	When liberty goes out of a place, it is not the first to go, nor the second or third to go,
BB p395	6215	It waits for all the rest to go—it is the last.
BB p395	6216	When there are no more memories {+of hearoes and martyrs,+} [-of the superb lovers of the nations of the world, -]
BB p395	6217	The superb lovers' names scouted in the public gatherings by the lips of the orators,
BB p395	6218	Boys not christened after them, but christened after traitors and murderers instead,
BB p396	6219	Tyrants' and priests' successes really acknowledged anywhere, for all the ostensible appearance,
BB p396	6220	You or I walking abroad upon the earth, elated at the sight of slaves, no matter who they are,
BB p396	6221	And when all life, and all the Souls of men and women are discharged from any part of the earth,
BB p396	6222	Then {+only+} shall [-the instinct of-] liberty be discharged from that part of the earth,
BB p396	6223	[-Then shall-] {+And+} the infidel and the tyrant come into possession.
BB p396	6224	< [-Then-] > [- {+Therefore+} -] courage [-!-] {+, revolter! revoltress!+}
BB p396	6225	For till all ceases, neither must you cease.
BB p396	6226	I do not know what you are for, (I do not what I am for myself, nor what any thing is for,)
BB p396	6227	But I will search carefully for it {+even+} in being foil [-e-] {+'+} d,
BB p396	6228	In defeat, poverty, imprisonment—for they too are great.
BB p396	6229	Did we think victory great?
BB p396	6230	So it is—But now it seems to me, when it cannot be helped, that defeat is great,
BB p396	6231	And that death and dismay are great.
BB p397	6232	MY spirit to yours, dear brother,
BB p397	6233	Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you,
BB p397	6234	I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others also;)
BB p397	6235	I specify you with joy, O my comrade, to salute you, {+¶+} [-a-] {+A+} nd [-to-] salute those who are with you, before and since—and those to come also,
BB p397	6236	That we all labor together, transmitting the same charge and succession;
BB p397	6237	We few, equals, indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
BB p397	6238	We, enclosers of all continents, all castes—allowers of all theologies,
BB p397	6239	Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
BB p397	6240	We walk silent among disputes and assertions,[- {+¶+} -] but reject not the disputers, nor any thing that is asserted,
BB p397	6241	We hear the bawling and din—we are reached at by divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side,
BB p397	6242	They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my comrade,
BB p397	6243	Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down,{+¶+} till we make our in- effaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras,
BB p397	6244	Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come,{+¶+} [-may-] prove breth- ren and lovers, as we are.
BB p398	6245	FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you:
BB p398	6246	You are to die—Let [-others-] {+your friends+} tell you what they please, I < [-cannot-] > [- {+will not+} -] prevaricate,
BB p398	6247	I am exact and merciless, but I love you—There is no escape for you.
BB p398	6248	Softly I lay my right hand upon you—you just feel it,
BB p398	6249	I do not argue—I bend my head close, and half- envelop it,
BB p398	6250	I sit quietly by—I remain faithful,
BB p398	6251	I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,
BB p398	6252	I absolve you from all except yourself, spiritual, bodily—that is eternal,
BB p398	6253	(The corpse you will leave will be but excremen- titious.)
BB p398	6254	The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions!
BB p398	6255	Strong thoughts fill you, and confidence—you smile!
BB p398	6256	You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,
BB p398	6257	You do not see the medicines—you do not mind the weeping friends—I am with you,
BB p398	6258	I exclude others from you—there is nothing to be commiserated,
BB p398	6259	I do not commiserate—I congratulate you.
BB p399	6260	BE composed—be at ease with me—I am Walt Whitman, liberal and lusty as Nature,
BB p399	6261	Not till the sun excludes you, do I exclude you,
BB p399	6262	Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, {+¶+} [-do-] {+Shall+} my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.
BB p399	6263	My girl, I appoint with you an appointment [-—-] {+¶+} and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me,
BB p399	6264	And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
BB p399	6265	Till then, I salute you with a significant look, that you do not forget me.
BB p399	6266	WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept,
BB p399	6267	A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money —these as I rendezvous with my poems,
BB p399	6268	A traveller's lodging and breakfast as I journey through The States [-—-] {+¶+} Why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? Why to advertise for them?
BB p399	6269	For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,
BB p399	6270	For I [-know that what I-] bestow upon any man or woman[- {+¶+} -] is [- {+nothing+} -] [-no less than-] the entrance to all the gifts of the universe.
BB p400	6271	IS reform needed? Is it through you?
BB p400	6272	The greater the [-reform-] {+work+} needed, the greater the PER- SONALITY you need to accomplish it.
BB p400	6273	[-You!-] do you [- {+indeed+} -] not see how it [-would-] serve{+s+} to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?
BB p400	6274	Do you not see how it [-would-] serve{+s+} 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 impressed with your personality?
BB p400	6275	O the magnet! the flesh over and over!
BB p400	6276	Go, [-mon cher-] {+dear friend+} ! if need be, give up all else, and com- mence to-day to inure yourself{+,+} [-to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,-]
BB p400	6277	Rest not, till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality.
BB p400	6278	WHY reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing?
BB p400	6279	What deepening twilight! Scum floating atop of the waters!
BB p400	6280	Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol?
BB p401	6281	What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, your torrid suns! O north, your arctic freezings!)
BB p401	6282	Are those really Congressmen? Are those the great Judges? Is that the President?
BB p401	6283	Then I will sleep a while yet—for I see that These States sleep, for reasons;
BB p401	6284	(With gathering murk—with muttering thunder and lambent shoots, we all duly awake,
BB p401	6285	South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
BB p401	6286	HERE, take this gift!
BB p401	6287	I was reserving it for some hero, orator, or general,
BB p401	6288	One who should serve the good old cause, the prog- ress and freedom of the race, [-the cause of my Soul;-]
BB p401	6289	But I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any.
BB p401	6290	TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little,
BB p401	6291	Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
BB p401	6292	Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
BB p402	6293	ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
BB p402	6294	You have not learned of Nature—of the politics of Nature, you have not learned the great ampli- tude, rectitude, impartiality,
BB p402	6295	You have not seen that only such as they are for These States,
BB p402	6296	And that what is less than they, must sooner or later lift off from These States.
BB p402	6297	I HEAR you have been asking for something to repre- sent the new race, our self-poised Democracy,
BB p402	6298	Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in them what you wanted.
BB p402	6299	I SEE in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.
BB p403	6300	LET us twain walk aside from the rest;
BB p403	6301	Now we are together privately, do you discard cer- emony,
BB p403	6302	Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story,
BB p403	6303	Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician.
BB p403	6304	STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
BB p403	6305	And why should I not speak to you?
BB p404	6306	I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, {+¶+} [-and behold! here is-] {+whereupon, lo! upsprang+} the aboriginal name!
BB p404	6307	Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient,
BB p404	6308	I see that the word of my city, is that word up there,
BB p404	6309	Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, with tall and wonderful spires,
BB p404	6310	Rich, hemmed thick all around with sailships and steamships [-—-] {+¶+} an island sixteen miles long, solid- founded,
BB p404	6311	Numberless crowded streets—high growths of iron, slender, {+¶+}strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies;
BB p404	6312	Tides swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sun- down,
BB p404	6313	The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, the larger adjoining islands, the heights, the villas,
BB p404	6314	The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, {+¶+}the ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers, well-model'd;
BB p404	6315	The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of business [-—-] {+¶+} the houses of business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokers—the river-streets,
BB p405	6316	Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week,
BB p405	6317	The carts hauling goods—the manly race of drivers of horses—the brown-faced sailors,
BB p405	6318	The summer[---]air, the bright sun shining, and the sail- ing clouds aloft,
BB p405	6319	The winter snows, the sleigh-bells—the broken ice in the river, {+¶+}passing along, up or down, with the flood-tide or ebb-tide;
BB p405	6320	The mechanics of the city, [-the masters,-] well-formed, [-beautiful-faced,-] looking you straight in the eyes;
BB p405	6321	Trottoirs thronged—vehicles—Broadway—the wo- men —the shops and shows,
BB p405	6322	The parades, processions, bugles playing, flags flying, drums beating;
BB p405	6323	A million people—manners free and superb—open voices [-—-] {+¶+} hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men;
BB p405	6324	The free city! no slaves! no owners of slaves!
BB p405	6325	The beautiful city! the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the city of spires and masts!
BB p405	6326	The city nested in bays! my city!
BB p405	6327	The city of such women, I am mad to be with them! I will return after death to be with them!
BB p405	6328	The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy, {+¶+}without I often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep, with them!
BB p406	6329	A GREAT year and place,
BB p406	6330	A harsh, discordant, natal scream rising, to touch the [-mother's heart-] {+[-heart of the-] mother of all+} closer than any yet.
BB p406	6331	{+When+} I walked the shores of my Eastern Sea,
BB p406	6332	{+When+} Heard over the waves the little voice,
BB p406	6333	Saw the divine infant, where she woke, mournfully wailing, {+¶+}amid the roar of cannon, curses, shouts, crash of falling buildings,
BB p406	6334	{+I+} Was not so sick from the blood in the gutters running [-—-] {+¶+} nor from the single corpses, nor those in heaps, nor those borne away in the tumbrils,
BB p406	6335	{+I+} Was not so desperate at the battues of death [-—was not so-] {+¶ Nor+} shocked at the repeated fusillades of the guns.
BB p406	6336	Pale, silent, stern, what could I say to that long- accrued retribution?
BB p406	6337	Could I wish humanity different?
BB p406	6338	Could I wish the people made of wood and stone?
BB p406	6339	Or that there be no justice in destiny or time?
BB p407	6340	O Liberty! [-O mate for me!-] {+ [-s-] {+S+} ee here in my [- {+own+} -] heart!+}
BB p407	6341	Here too [-keeps-] the blaze, the bullet and the axe, in reserve, to fetch them out in case of need [-,-] {+;+}
BB p407	6342	Here too, though long deprest, still is not destroyed [-,-] {+;+}
BB p407	6343	Here < [-too-] > could rise at last, murdering and extatic [-,-] {+;+}
BB p407	6344	Here < [-too-] > would demand full arrears of vengeance.
BB p407	6345	Hence I sign this salute over the sea,
BB p407	6346	And I do not deny that terrible red birth and baptism,
BB p407	6347	But remember the little voice that I heard wailing— and wait with perfect trust, no matter how long,
BB p407	6348	And from to-day, sad and cogent, I maintain the bequeath'd cause, as for all lands, [- {+in the name of the mother of all,+} -]
BB p407	6349	And I send these words to Paris, with my love,
BB p407	6350	And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them,
BB p407	6351	For I guess there is latent music yet in France— floods of it,
BB p407	6352	O I hear already the bustle of instruments—they will soon be drowning all that would interrupt them,
BB p407	6353	O I think the east wind brings a triumphal and free march,
BB p407	6354	It reaches hither—it swells me to joyful madness,
BB p407	6355	I will run transpose it in words, to justify it,
BB p407	6356	I will yet sing a song for you, ma femme.
BB p408	6357	OF the visages of things—And of piercing through to the accepted hells beneath;
BB p408	6358	Of ugliness—To me there is just as much in it as there is in beauty—And now the ugliness of human beings is acceptable to me;
BB p408	6359	Of detected persons—To me, detected persons are not, in any respect, worse than undetected per- sons—and are not in any respect worse than I am myself;
BB p408	6360	Of criminals—To me, any judge, or any juror, is equally criminal—and any reputable person is also—and the President is also.
BB p408	6361	OF waters, forests, hills,
BB p408	6362	Of the earth at large, whispering through medium of me;
BB p408	6363	Of vista—Suppose some sight in arriere, through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attained on the journey;
BB p409	6364	(But I see the road continued, and the journey ever continued;)
BB p409	6365	Of what was once lacking on the earth, and in due time has become supplied—And of what will yet be supplied,
BB p409	6366	Because all I see and know, I believe to have purport in what will yet be supplied.
BB p409	6367	OF persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like,
BB p409	6368	To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except as it results to their bodies and Souls,
BB p409	6369	So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked,
BB p409	6370	And often, to me, each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself,
BB p409	6371	And of each one, the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots,
BB p409	6372	And [-often-], to me, those men and women pass un- wittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities,
BB p409	6373	And [-often-], to me, they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more,
BB p409	6374	And [-often-], to me, they are sad, hasty, unwaked son- nambules, walking the dusk.
BB p410	6375	OF ownership—As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself;
BB p410	6376	Of Equality—As if it harmed 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;
BB p410	6377	Of Justice—As if Justice could be any thing but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviours,
BB p410	6378	As if it might be this thing or that thing, according to decisions.
BB p410	6379	AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing,
BB p410	6380	To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral, in mist, of a wreck at sea,
BB p410	6381	Of the flower of the marine science of fifty genera- tions, foundered off the Northeast coast, and going down—Of the steamship Arctic going down,
BB p410	6382	Of the veiled tableau—Women gathered together on deck, pale, heroic, waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!
BB p411	6383	O the huge sob—A few bubbles—the white foam spirting up—And then the women gone,
BB p411	6384	Sinking there, while the passionless wet flows on— And I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone?
BB p411	6385	Are Souls drowned and destroyed so?
BB p411	6386	Is only matter triumphant?
BB p411	6387	OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé;
BB p411	6388	Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were not less complete than my poems;
BB p411	6389	As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as lasting as my poems;
BB p411	6390	As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.
BB p411	6391	OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
BB p411	6392	As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men, fol- lowing the lead of those who do not believe in men.
BB p412	6393	NATIONS ten thousand years before These States, and many times ten thousand years before These States,
BB p412	6394	Garnered clusters of ages, that men and women like us grew up and travelled their course, and passed on;
BB p412	6395	What vast-built cities—What orderly republics— What pastoral tribes and nomads,
BB p412	6396	What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
BB p412	6397	What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
BB p412	6398	What sort of marriage—What costumes—What physiology and phrenology,
BB p412	6399	What of liberty and slavery among them—What they thought of death and the Soul,
BB p412	6400	Who were witty and wise—Who beautiful and poetic —Who brutish and undeveloped,
BB p412	6401	Not a mark, not a record remains—And yet all remains.
BB p412	6402	O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing,
BB p413	6403	I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much as we now belong to it [-, -] {+—+} and as all will henceforth belong to it.
BB p413	6404	Afar they stand—yet near to me they stand,
BB p413	6405	Some with oval countenances, learned and calm,
BB p413	6406	Some naked and savage—Some like huge collections of insects [-,-] {+;+}
BB p413	6407	Some in tents—herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horse- men,
BB p413	6408	Some prowling through woods—Some living peacea- bly on farms, laboring, reaping, filling barns,
BB p413	6409	Some traversing paved avenues, amid temples, palaces, factories, libraries, {+¶+}shows, courts, theatres, won- derful monuments.
BB p413	6410	Are those billions of men really gone?
BB p413	6411	Are those women of the old experience of the earth gone?
BB p413	6412	Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us?
BB p413	6413	Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?
BB p413	6414	I [-believe-] {+think+} of all those billions of men and women that filled the unnamed lands, {+¶+}every one exists this hour, here or elsewhere, invisible to us, {+¶+}in exact proportion to what he or she grew from in life, {+¶+}and out of what he or she did, felt, became, loved, sinned, in life.
BB p413	6415	I [-believe-] {+think+} that was not the end of those nations, or any person of them, {+¶+}any more than this shall be the end of my nation, or of me;
BB p414	6416	Of their languages, phrenology, government, coins, med- als, {+¶+}marriage, literature, products, games, juris- prudence, wars, {+¶+}manners, amativeness, crimes, prisons, slaves, heroes, poets, {+¶+}I suspect their re- sults curiously await in the yet unseen world — {+¶+}counterparts of what accrued to them in the seen world [-,-] {+.+}
BB p414	6417	I suspect I shall meet them there,
BB p414	6418	I suspect I shall there find each old particular of those unnamed lands.
BB p414	6419	WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,
BB p414	6420	Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great {+toleration &+}charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
BB p414	6421	Who has not looked forth from the windows, the eyes, for nothing [-,-] {+—+} or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing;
BB p414	6422	Who contains believers and disbelievers—Who is the most majestic lover;
BB p414	6423	Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the sthetic, or intellectual,
BB p414	6424	Who, having considered the body, finds all its organs and parts good;
BB p414	6425	Who, out of the theory of [-the earth, and of-] his or her body[-,-] understands by subtle analogies[-,-] {+all other theories,+} the theory of a city, a poem, and of the large politics of These States;
BB p415	6426	Who believes not only in our globe, with its sun and moon, but in other globes, with their suns and moons;
BB p415	6427	Who, constructing the house of himself or herself, not for a day, but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations,
BB p415	6428	The past, the future, dwelling there, like space, insep- arable together.
BB p415	6429	HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)
BB p415	6430	Outside fair costume—within, ashes and filth,
BB p415	6431	No more a flashing eye—no more a sonorous voice or springy step,
BB p415	6432	Now some slave's eye, voice, hands, step,
BB p415	6433	A drunkard's breath, unwholesome eater's face, ve- nerealee's flesh,
BB p415	6434	Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous,
BB p415	6435	Joints rheumatic, bowels clogged with abomination,
BB p415	6436	Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams,
BB p415	6437	Words babble, hearing and touch callous,
BB p415	6438	No brain, no heart left—no magnetism of sex;
BB p415	6439	Such, from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence,
BB p415	6440	Such a result so soon—and from such a beginning!
BB p416	6441	HOW they are provided for upon the earth, ( appear- ing at intervals,)
BB p416	6442	How dear and dreadful they are to the earth,
BB p416	6443	How they inure to themselves as much as to any— What a paradox appears, their age,
BB p416	6444	How people respond to them, yet know them not,
BB p416	6445	How there is something relentless in their fate, all times,
BB p416	6446	How all times mischoose the objects of their adulation and reward,
BB p416	6447	And how the same inexorable price must still be paid for the same great purchase.
BB p416	6448	ALL submit to them, where they sit, inner, secure, unapproachable to analysis, in the Soul;
BB p416	6449	Not traditions—not the outer authorities are the judges—they are the judges of outer authori- ties, and of all traditions,
BB p416	6450	They corroborate as they go, only whatever corrobo- rates themselves, and touches themselves [-,-] {+;+}
BB p416	6451	{+(+}For all that, they have it forever in themselves to cor- roborate far and near, without one exception.{+)+}
BB p417	6452	THITHER, as I look, I see each result and glory re- tracing itself and nestling close, always obli- gated;
BB p417	6453	Thither hours, months, years—thither trades, com- pacts, establishments, even the most minute,
BB p417	6454	Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, per- sons, estates,
BB p417	6455	Thither we also, I with my leaves and songs, trustful, admirant,
BB p417	6456	As a father, to his father going, takes his children along with him.
BB p417	6457	ONLY themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves,
BB p417	6458	As Souls only understand Souls.
BB p418	6459	I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect per- son [-, -] {+—+} {+that+} is finally right.
BB p418	6460	I SAY nourish a great intellect, a great brain;
BB p418	6461	If I have said anything to the contrary, I hereby retract it.
BB p418	6462	I SAY man shall not hold property in man;
BB p418	6463	I say the least developed person on earth is just as important and sacred to himself or herself, as the most developed person is to himself or her- self.
BB p418	6464	I SAY where liberty draws not the blood out of slavery, there slavery draws the blood out of liberty [-,-] {+.+}
BB p418	6465	I say the word of the good old cause in These States, and resound it hence over the world.
BB p419	6466	I SAY the human shape or face is so great, it must never be made ridiculous;
BB p419	6467	I say for ornaments nothing outre can be allowed,
BB p419	6468	And that anything is most beautiful without orna- ment,
BB p419	6469	And that exaggerations will be sternly revenged in your own physiology, and in other persons' phys- iology also;
BB p419	6470	And I say that clean-shaped children can be jetted and conceived only where natural forms prevail in public, and the human face and form are never caricatured;
BB p419	6471	And I say that genius need never more be turned to romances,
BB p419	6472	(For facts properly told, how mean appear all romances.)
BB p419	6473	I SAY the word of lands fearing nothing—I will have no other land;
BB p419	6474	I say discuss all and expose all—I am for every topic openly;
BB p419	6475	I say there can be no salvation for These States with- out innovators—without free tongues, and ears willing to hear the tongues;
BB p419	6476	And I announce as a glory of These States, that they respectfully listen to propositions, reforms, fresh views and doctrines, from successions of men and women,
BB p419	6477	Each age with its own growth.
BB p420	6478	I HAVE said many times that materials and the Soul are great, and that all depends on physique;
BB p420	6479	Now I reverse what I said, and affirm that all depends on the æsthetic or intellectual,
BB p420	6480	And that criticism is great—and that refinement is greatest of all;
BB p420	6481	And I affirm now that the mind governs—and that all depends on the mind.
BB p420	6482	WITH one man or woman—(no matter which one— I even pick out the lowest,)
BB p420	6483	With him or her I now illustrate the whole law;
BB p420	6484	I say that every right, in politics or what-not, shall be eligible to that one man or woman, on the same terms as any.
BB p421	6485	HE is wisest who has the most caution,
BB p421	6486	He only wins who goes far enough.
BB p421	6487	ANY thing is [-as good as-] established, when that is established that will produce it[- and continue it-].
BB p421	6488	WHAT General has a good army in himself, has [-a-] {+the only+} good army [-;-] {+.+}
BB p421	6489	He happy in himself, or she happy in herself, is happy,
BB p421	6490	But I tell you you cannot be happy by others, {+nor by any thing but yourself.+} [-any more than you can beget or conceive a child by others. -]
BB p421	6491	HAVE you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
BB p421	6492	Have you not learned the great lessons of those who rejected you, and braced themselves against you? {+¶+}or who treated you with contempt, or disputed the passage with you?
BB p421	6493	Have you had no practice to receive opponents when they come?
BB p422	6494	But appeal not to me, O despairers
BB p422	6495	To me too
BB p422	6496	{+Ah+} DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night,
BB p422	6497	The sad voice of Death—the call of my nearest lover, putting forth, alarmed, uncertain,
BB p422	6498	This sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me,
BB p422	6499	Come tell me where I am speeding—tell me my destination.
BB p422	6500	I UNDERSTAND your anguish, [- {+O my lover+} -] but I cannot help you,
BB p422	6501	I approach, hear, behold {+you, despairers—+}—the sad mouth, the look out of the eyes, your mute inquiry,
BB p422	6502	Whither I go from the bed I now recline on, come tell me;
BB p422	6503	{+I see hear all—+}Old age, alarmed, uncertain—A young woman's voice appealing to me, for comfort,
BB p422	6504	A young man's voice, Shall I not escape?
BB p422	6505	A THOUSAND perfect men and women appear,
BB p422	6506	Around each gathers a cluster of friends, and gay
BB p422	6507	children and youths, with offerings.
BB p422	6508	A MASK—a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
BB p422	6509	Concealing her face, concealing her form,
BB p422	6510	Changes and transformations every hour, every mo- ment,
BB p422	6511	Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
BB p423	6512	ONE sweeps by, attended by an immense train,
BB p423	6513	All emblematic of peace—not a soldier or menial among them.
BB p423	6514	ONE sweeps by, {+very+}old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair [-,-] {+and beard;+}
BB p423	6515	He has the simple magnificence of health and strength,
BB p423	6516	His face strikes as with flashes of lightning whoever it turns toward.
BB p423	6517	THREE old men slowly pass, followed by three others, and they by three others,
BB p423	6518	They are [-beautiful-] {+[-perfectly-] {+in perfect+} health[-ly—-]+}—the one in the middle of each group holds his companions by the hand,
BB p423	6519	As they walk, they give out perfume wherever they walk.
BB p423	6520	WOMEN sit, or move to and fro—some old, some young,
BB p423	6521	The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young.
BB p423	6522	WHAT weeping face is that looking from the window?
BB p423	6523	Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?
BB p423	6524	Is it for some burial place, vast and dry?
BB p423	6525	Is it to wet the soil of graves?
BB p424	6526	I WILL [- {+ With +} -] take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard,
BB p424	6527	I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the garden, and go and preach to the world;
BB p424	6528	You shall see I will not meet a single heretic or scorner,
BB p424	6529	You shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them,
BB p424	6530	You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white pebble from the beach.
BB p424	6531	BEHAVIOR—fresh, native, copious, each one for him- self or herself,
BB p424	6532	Nature and the Soul expressed—America and free- dom expressed—In it the finest art,
BB p424	6533	In it pride, cleanliness, sympathy, to have their chance,
BB p424	6534	In it physique, intellect, faith—in it just as much as to manage an army or a city, or to write a book —perhaps more,
BB p424	6535	The youth, the laboring person, the poor person, rivalling all the rest—perhaps outdoing the rest,
BB p424	6536	The effects of the universe no greater than its;
BB p424	6537	For there is nothing in the whole universe that can be more effective than a man's or woman's daily behavior can be,
BB p424	6538	In any position, in any one of These States.
BB p425	6539	NOT the {+sea‑+}pilot [-has charged-] {+charges+} himself to bring his ship into port, {+¶+}though beaten back, and many times baffled,
BB p425	6540	Not the {+overland+} path-finder, [- {+ +} -][-penetrating inland,-] {+traveling overland+} weary and long,
BB p425	6541	By deserts parched, snows chilled, rivers wet, per- severes till he reaches his destination,
BB p425	6542	More than I have charged myself, heeded or un- heeded, {+¶+}to compose a free march for These States,
BB p425	6543	To be exhilarating music to them, years, centuries hence.
BB p425	6544	As if a phantom, [-soothing-] {+caress[-ing,-]{+'d+}+} [-accompanied-] me,
BB p425	6545	I THOUGHT I was not alone, walking here by the shore,
BB p425	6546	But the one I thought was [-with me,-] {+close [-to-] {+to+} my side—+} as now I walk by the shore, {+—the one[-s-] I loved, that caress'd me,+}
BB p425	6547	As I lean and look through the glimmering light— that one has utterly disappeared,
BB p425	6548	And those appear that [-perplex me.-] {+[-mock and-] are hateful to me and mock me.+}
BB p426	6549	I WANDER all night in my vision,
BB p426	6550	Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly step- ping and stopping,
BB p426	6551	Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers,
BB p426	6552	Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory,
BB p426	6553	Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping.
BB p426	6554	How solemn they look there, stretched and still!
BB p426	6555	How quiet they breathe, the little children in their cradles!
BB p426	6556	The wretched features of ennuyés, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunkards, the sick- gray faces of onanists,
BB p426	6557	The gashed bodies on battle-fields, the insane in their strong-doored rooms, the sacred idiots, the new- born emerging from gates, and the dying emer- ging from gates,
BB p426	6558	The night pervades them and infolds them.
BB p426	6559	The 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,
BB p427	6560	The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed,
BB p427	6561	The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs,
BB p427	6562	And the mother sleeps, with her little child carefully wrapped.
BB p427	6563	The blind sleep, and the deaf and dumb sleep,
BB p427	6564	The prisoner sleeps well in the prison—the run- away son sleeps,
BB p427	6565	The murderer that is to be hung next day—how does he sleep?
BB p427	6566	And the murdered person—how does he sleep?
BB p427	6567	The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
BB p427	6568	And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
BB p427	6569	The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
BB p427	6570	And the enraged and treacherous dispositions— all, all sleep.
BB p427	6571	I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst- suffering and the most restless,
BB p427	6572	I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them,
BB p427	6573	The restless sink in their beds—they fitfully sleep.
BB p427	6574	Now I pierce the darkness—new beings appear,
BB p427	6575	The earth recedes from me into the night,
BB p427	6576	I saw that it was beautiful, and I see that what is not the earth is beautiful.
BB p427	6577	I go from bedside to bedside—I sleep close with the other sleepers, each in turn,
BB p427	6578	I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
BB p427	6579	And I become the other dreamers.
BB p428	6580	I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!
BB p428	6581	I am the ever-laughing—it is new moon and twilight,
BB p428	6582	I see the hiding of douceurs—I see nimble ghosts whichever way I look,
BB p428	6583	Cache, and cache again, deep in the ground and sea, and where it is neither ground or sea.
BB p428	6584	Well do they do their jobs, those journeymen divine,
BB p428	6585	Only from me can they hide nothing, and would not if they could,
BB p428	6586	I reckon I am their boss, and they make me a pet besides,
BB p428	6587	And surround me and lead me, and run ahead when I walk,
BB p428	6588	To lift their cunning covers, to signify me with stretched arms, and resume the way;
BB p428	6589	Onward we move! a gay gang of blackguards! with mirth-shouting music and wild-flapping pennants of joy!
BB p428	6590	I am the actor, the actress, the voter, the politician,
BB p428	6591	The emigrant and the exile, the criminal that stood in the box,
BB p428	6592	He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after to-day,
BB p428	6593	The stammerer, the well-formed person, the wasted or feeble person.
BB p428	6594	I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,
BB p428	6595	My truant lover has come, and it is dark.
BB p429	6596	Double yourself and receive me, darkness!
BB p429	6597	Receive me and my lover too—he will not let me go without him.
BB p429	6598	I roll myself upon you, as upon a bed—I resign myself to the dusk.
BB p429	6599	He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover,
BB p429	6600	He rises with me silently from the bed.
BB p429	6601	Darkness! you are gentler than my lover—his flesh was sweaty and panting,
BB p429	6602	I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me.
BB p429	6603	My hands are spread forth, I pass them in all directions,
BB p429	6604	I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying.
BB p429	6605	Be careful, darkness! already, what was it touched me?
BB p429	6606	I thought my lover had gone, else darkness and he are one,
BB p429	6607	I hear the heart-beat—I follow, I fade away.
BB p429	6608	O hot-cheeked and blushing! O foolish hectic!
BB p429	6609	O for pity's sake, no one must see me now! my clothes were stolen while I was abed,
BB p429	6610	Now I am thrust forth, where shall I run?
BB p429	6611	Pier that I saw dimly last night, when I looked from the windows!
BB p430	6612	Pier out from the main, let me catch myself with you and stay—I will not chafe you,
BB p430	6613	I feel ashamed to go naked about the world.
BB p430	6614	I am curious to know where my feet stand [-—-] {+¶+} and what this is flooding me, childhood or manhood [-—-] {+¶+} and the hunger that crosses the bridge between.
BB p430	6615	The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking,
BB p430	6616	Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened;
BB p430	6617	The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness,
BB p430	6618	And liquor is spilled on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor afterward.
BB p430	6619	I descend my western course, my sinews are flaccid,
BB p430	6620	Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake.
BB p430	6621	It is my face yellow and wrinkled, instead of the old woman's,
BB p430	6622	I sit low in a straw-bottom chair, and carefully darn my grandson's stockings.
BB p430	6623	It is I too, the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight,
BB p430	6624	I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth.
BB p430	6625	A shroud I see, and I am the shroud—I wrap a body and lie in the coffin,
BB p431	6626	It is dark here under ground—it is not evil or pain here—it is blank here, for reasons.
BB p431	6627	It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy,
BB p431	6628	Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
BB p431	6629	I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies of the sea,
BB p431	6630	His brown hair lies close and even to his head— he strikes out with courageous arms—he urges himself with his legs,
BB p431	6631	I see his white body—I see his undaunted eyes,
BB p431	6632	I hate the swift-running eddies that would dash him head-foremost on the rocks.
BB p431	6633	What are you doing, you ruffianly red-trickled waves?
BB p431	6634	Will you kill the courageous giant? Will you kill him in the prime of his middle age?
BB p431	6635	Steady and long he struggles,
BB p431	6636	He is baffled, banged, bruised—he holds out while his strength holds out,
BB p431	6637	The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood— they bear him away—they roll him, swing him, turn him,
BB p431	6638	His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies, it is continually bruised on rocks,
BB p431	6639	Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse.
BB p431	6640	I turn, but do not extricate myself,
BB p431	6641	Confused, a past-reading, another, but with darkness yet.
BB p432	6642	The beach is cut by the razory ice-wind—the wreck- guns sound,
BB p432	6643	The tempest lulls—the moon comes floundering through the drifts.
BB p432	6644	I 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.
BB p432	6645	I cannot aid with my wringing fingers,
BB p432	6646	I can but rush to the surf, and let it drench me and freeze upon me.
BB p432	6647	I search with the crowd—not one of the company is washed to us alive;
BB p432	6648	In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a barn.
BB p432	6649	Now of the old war-days, the defeat at Brooklyn,
BB p432	6650	Washington stands inside the lines—he stands on the intrenched hills, amid a crowd of officers,
BB p432	6651	His face is cold and damp—he cannot repress the weeping drops,
BB p432	6652	He lifts the glass perpetually to his eyes—the color is blanched from his cheeks,
BB p432	6653	He sees the slaughter of the southern braves confided to him by their parents.
BB p432	6654	The same, at last and at last, when peace is declared,
BB p432	6655	He stands in the room of the old tavern—the well- beloved soldiers all pass through,
BB p432	6656	The officers speechless and slow draw near in their turns,
BB p433	6657	The chief encircles their necks with his arm, and kisses them on the cheek,
BB p433	6658	He kisses lightly the wet cheeks one after another— he shakes hands, and bids good-by to the army.
BB p433	6659	Now I tell what my mother told me to-day as we sat at dinner together,
BB p433	6660	Of when she was a nearly grown girl, living home with her parents on the old homestead.
BB p433	6661	A red squaw came one breakfast-time to the old homestead,
BB p433	6662	On her back she carried a bundle of rushes for rush-bottoming chairs,
BB p433	6663	Her hair, straight, shiny, coarse, black, profuse, half- enveloped her face,
BB p433	6664	Her step was free and elastic, and her voice sounded exquisitely as she spoke.
BB p433	6665	My mother looked in delight and amazement at the stranger,
BB p433	6666	She looked at the freshness of her tall-borne face, and full and pliant limbs,
BB p433	6667	The more she looked upon her she loved her,
BB p433	6668	Never before had she seen such wonderful beauty and purity,
BB p433	6669	She made her sit on a bench by the jamb of the fire- place—she cooked food for her,
BB p433	6670	She had no work to give her, but she gave her remembrance and fondness.
BB p433	6671	The red squaw staid all the forenoon, and toward the middle of the afternoon she went away,
BB p434	6672	O my mother was loth to have her go away!
BB p434	6673	All the week she thought of her—she watched for her many a month,
BB p434	6674	She remembered her many a winter and many a summer,
BB p434	6675	But the red squaw never came, nor was heard of there again.
BB p434	6676	Now Lucifer was not dead—or if he was, I am his sorrowful terrible heir,
BB p434	6677	I have been wronged—I am oppressed—I hate him that oppresses me,
BB p434	6678	I will either destroy him, or he shall release me.
BB p434	6679	Damn him! how he does defile me!
BB p434	6680	How he informs against my brother and sister, and takes pay for their blood!
BB p434	6681	How he laughs when I look down the bend, after the steamboat that carries away my woman!
BB p434	6682	Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk, it seems mine,
BB p434	6683	Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and slug- gish, [-my tap-] {+the tap of my flukes+} is death.
BB p434	6684	A show of the summer softness! a contact of some- thing unseen! an amour of the light and air!
BB p434	6685	I am jealous, and overwhelmed with friendliness,
BB p434	6686	And will go gallivant with the light and air myself,
BB p434	6687	And have an unseen something to be in contact with them also.
BB p434	6688	O love and summer! you are in the dreams, and in me!
BB p435	6689	Autumn and winter are in the dreams—the farmer goes with his thrift,
BB p435	6690	The droves and crops increase, and the barns are well- filled.
BB p435	6691	Elements merge in the night—ships make tacks in the dreams,
BB p435	6692	The sailor sails—the exile returns home,
BB p435	6693	The fugitive returns unharmed—the immigrant is back beyond months and years,
BB p435	6694	The poor Irishman lives in the simple house of his childhood, with the well-known neighbors and faces,
BB p435	6695	They warmly welcome him—he is barefoot again, he forgets he is well off;
BB p435	6696	The Dutchman voyages home, and the Scotchman and Welshman voyage home, and the native of the Mediterranean voyages home,
BB p435	6697	To every port of England, France, Spain, enter well- filled ships,
BB p435	6698	The Swiss foots it toward his hills—the Prussian goes his way, the Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way,
BB p435	6699	The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return.
BB p435	6700	The homeward bound, and the outward bound,
BB p435	6701	The beautiful lost swimmer, the ennuyé, the onanist, the female that loves unrequited, the money- maker,
BB p435	6702	The actor and actress, those through with their parts, and those waiting to commence,
BB p436	6703	The affectionate boy, the husband and wife, the voter, the nominee that is chosen, and the nominee that has failed,
BB p436	6704	The great already known, and the great any time after to-day,
BB p436	6705	The stammerer, the sick, the perfect-formed, the homely,
BB p436	6706	The criminal that stood in the box, the judge that sat and sentenced him, the fluent lawyers, the jury, the audience,
BB p436	6707	The laugher and weeper, the dancer, the midnight widow, the red squaw,
BB p436	6708	The consumptive, the erysip [-e-] {+a+} lite, the idiot, he that is wronged,
BB p436	6709	The antipodes, and every one between this and them in the dark,
BB p436	6710	I swear they are averaged now—one is no better than the other,
BB p436	6711	The night and sleep have likened them and restored them.
BB p436	6712	I swear they are all beautiful!
BB p436	6713	Every one that sleeps is beautiful—everything in the dim light is beautiful,
BB p436	6714	The wildest and bloodiest is over, and all is peace.
BB p436	6715	Peace is always beautiful,
BB p436	6716	The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
BB p436	6717	The myth of heaven indicates the Soul;
BB p436	6718	The Soul is always beautiful—it appears more or it appears less—it comes, or it lags behind,
BB p437	6719	It comes from its embowered garden, and looks pleasantly on itself, and encloses the world,
BB p437	6720	Perfect and clean the genitals previously jetting, and perfect and clean the womb cohering,
BB p437	6721	The head well-grown, proportioned and plumb, and the bowels and joints proportioned and plumb.
BB p437	6722	The Soul is always beautiful,
BB p437	6723	The universe is duly in order, everything is in its place,
BB p437	6724	What is arrived is in its place, and what waits is in its place;
BB p437	6725	The twisted skull waits, the watery or rotten blood waits,
BB p437	6726	The child of the glutton or venerealee waits long, and the child of the drunkard waits long, and the drunkard himself waits long,
BB p437	6727	The sleepers that lived and died wait—the far advanced are to go on in their turns, and the far behind are to go on in their turns,
BB p437	6728	The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.
BB p437	6729	The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed,
BB p437	6730	They flow hand in hand over the whole earth, from east to west, as they lie unclothed,
BB p437	6731	The Asiatic and African are hand in hand—the European and American are hand in hand,
BB p437	6732	Learned and unlearned are hand in hand, and male and female are hand in hand,
BB p437	6733	The bare arm of the girl crosses the bare breast of her lover—they press close without lust—his lips press her neck,
BB p438	6734	The 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,
BB p438	6735	The white hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter,
BB p438	6736	The breath of the boy goes with the breath of the man, friend is inarmed by friend,
BB p438	6737	The scholar kisses the teacher, and the teacher kisses the scholar—the wronged is made right,
BB p438	6738	The call of the slave is one with the master's call, and the master salutes the slave,
BB p438	6739	The felon steps forth from the prison [-—-] {+, +} the insane becomes sane [-—-] {+¶+} the suffering of sick persons is relieved,
BB p438	6740	The sweatings and fevers stop—the throat that was unsound is sound [-—-] {+¶+} the lungs of the consumptive are resumed [-—-] {+, +} the poor distressed head is free,
BB p438	6741	The joints of the rheumatic move as smoothly as ever, and smoother than ever,
BB p438	6742	Stiflings and passages open [-—-] {+, +} the paralyzed become supple,
BB p438	6743	The swelled and convulsed and congested awake to themselves in condition,
BB p438	6744	They pass the invigoration of the night, and the chemistry of the night, and awake.
BB p438	6745	I too pass from the night,
BB p438	6746	I stay a while away O night, but I return to you again, and love you.
BB p438	6747	Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you?
BB p438	6748	I am not afraid—I have been well brought forward by you,
BB p439	6749	I love the rich running day, but I do not desert her in whom I lay so long,
BB p439	6750	I 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.
BB p439	6751	I will stop only a time with the night, and rise betimes,
BB p439	6752	I will duly pass the day, O my mother, and duly return to you.
BB p440	6753	TO think of [-it!-] [- {+th+} -] {+burial!+}
BB p440	6754	To think of < [-time—of all that-] > [- {+the+} -] retrospect < [-ion-] > [- {+ ion +} -] !
BB p440	6755	To think of to-day, and the ages continued hence- forward!
BB p440	6756	Have you guessed you yourself would not continue?
BB p440	6757	Have you dreaded those earth-beetles?
BB p440	6758	Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?
BB p440	6759	Is to-day nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing?
BB p440	6760	If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing.
BB p440	6761	To think that the sun rose in the east! [- {+¶+} -]that men and women were flexible, real, alive! [-that every- thing was alive! -]
BB p440	6762	To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part!
BB p440	6763	To think that we are now here, and bear our part!
BB p440	6764	Not a day passes—not a minute or second, without an accouchment!
BB p440	6765	Not a day passes—not a minute or second, without a corpse!
BB p440	6766	The dull nights go over, and the dull days also,
BB p440	6767	The soreness of lying so much in bed goes over,
BB p441	6768	The physician, after long putting off, gives the silent and terrible look for an answer,
BB p441	6769	The children come hurried and weeping, and the brothers and sisters are sent for,
BB p441	6770	Medicines stand unused on the shelf—(the camphor- smell has long pervaded the rooms,)
BB p441	6771	The faithful hand of the living does not desert the hand of the dying,
BB p441	6772	The twitching lips press lightly on the forehead of the dying,
BB p441	6773	The breath ceases, and the pulse of the heart ceases,
BB p441	6774	The corpse stretches on the bed, and the living look upon it,
BB p441	6775	It is palpable as the living are palpable.
BB p441	6776	The living look upon the corpse with their eye-sight,
BB p441	6777	But without eye-sight lingers a different living, and looks curiously on the corpse.
BB p441	6778	To think that the rivers will flow, and the snow fall, and fruits ripen, and act upon others as upon us now—yet not act upon us!
BB p441	6779	To think of all these wonders of city and country, and others taking great interest in them—and we taking no interest in them!
BB p441	6780	To think how eager we are in building our houses!
BB p441	6781	To think others shall be just as eager, and we quite indifferent!
BB p441	6782	I see one building the house that serves him a few years, or seventy or eighty years at most,
BB p441	6783	{+(+}I see one building the house that serves him longer than that.{+)+}
BB p442	6784	Slow-moving and black lines creep over the whole earth [-—-] {+¶+} they never cease—they are the burial lines,
BB p442	6785	He that was President was buried, and he that is now President shall surely be buried.
BB p442	6786	Cold dash of waves at the ferry-wharf [-—-] {+¶+} posh and ice in the river, half-frozen mud in the streets, {+¶+} [-a-] {+A+} gray discouraged sky overhead, the short last daylight of Twelfth Month,
BB p442	6787	A hearse and stages—other vehicles give place— {+¶+}the funeral of an old Broadway stage-driver, the cortege mostly drivers.
BB p442	6788	Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell, {+¶+}the gate is passed, the new-dug grave is halted at, {+¶+}the living alight, the hearse un- closes,
BB p442	6789	The coffin is passed < [-out-] > [- {+forth+} -] , lowered and settled, {+¶+}the whip is laid on the coffin, the earth is swiftly shovelled in,
BB p442	6790	The mound above is flatted with the spades— silence,
BB p442	6791	A minute, no one moves or speaks—it is done,
BB p442	6792	He is decently put away—is there anything more?
BB p442	6793	He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, {+¶+}able to take his own part, witty, sensitive to a slight, {+¶+}ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, {+¶+}gambled, ate hearty, drank hearty, had known what it was to be flush, {+¶+}grew low-spirited toward the last, sickened, was helped by a contribution, {+¶+}died, aged forty- one years—and that was his funeral.
BB p443	6794	Thumb extended, finger uplifted, {+¶+}apron, cape, gloves, strap, wet-weather clothes, whip carefully chosen, {+¶+}boss, spotter, starter, hostler, somebody loafing on you, you loafing on somebody, {+¶+}head-way, man before and man behind, good day's work, bad day's work, {+¶+}pet stock, mean stock, first out, last out, turning in at night,
BB p443	6795	To think that these are so much and so nigh to other drivers [-—-] {+¶+} and he there takes no interest in them!
BB p443	6796	The markets, the government, the working-man's wages [-—-] {+¶+} to think what account they are through our nights and days!
BB p443	6797	To think that other working-men will make just as great account of them [-—-] {+¶+} yet we make little or no account!
BB p443	6798	The vulgar and the refined [-—-] {+¶+} what you call sin and what you call goodness—to think how wide a difference!
BB p443	6799	To think the difference will still continue to others, yet we lie beyond the difference.
BB p443	6800	To think how much pleasure there is!
BB p443	6801	Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? have you pleasure from poems?
BB p443	6802	Do you enjoy yourself in the city? or engaged in business? {+¶+}or planning a nomination and elec- tion? or with your wife and family?
BB p443	6803	Or with your mother and sisters? or in womanly house-work? or the beautiful maternal cares?
BB p443	6804	These also flow onward to others—you and I flow onward,
BB p444	6805	But in due time you and I shall take less interest in them.
BB p444	6806	Your farm, profits, crops,—to think how engrossed you are!
BB p444	6807	To think there will still be farms, profits, crops—yet for you, of what avail?
BB p444	6808	What will be, will be well—for what is, is well,
BB p444	6809	To take interest is well, and not to take interest shall be well.
BB p444	6810	The sky continues beautiful,
BB p444	6811	The pleasure of men with women shall never be sated, {+¶+}nor the pleasure of women with men, nor the pleasure from poems,
BB p444	6812	The domestic joys, the daily house-work or business, the building of houses [-—-] {+¶+} these are not phan- tasms—they have weight, form, location;
BB p444	6813	Farms, profits, crops, markets, wages, government, are none of them phantasms,
BB p444	6814	The difference between sin and goodness is no delusion,
BB p444	6815	The earth is not an echo—man and his life, and all the things of his life, are well-considered.
BB p444	6816	You are not thrown to the winds—you gather cer- tainly and safely around yourself [-,-] {+;+}
BB p444	6817	Yourself! Yourself! Yourself, forever and ever!
BB p444	6818	It is not to diffuse you that you were born of your mother and father—it is to identify you [-,-] {+;+} It is not that you should be undecided, but that you should be decided;
BB p445	6819	Something long preparing and formless is arrived and formed in you,
BB p445	6820	You are thenceforth secure, whatever comes or goes.
BB p445	6821	The threads that were spun are gathered, the weft crosses the warp, the pattern is systematic.
BB p445	6822	The preparations have every one been justified,
BB p445	6823	The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instru- ments, the baton has given the signal.
BB p445	6824	The guest that was coming—he waited long, for reasons—he is now housed,
BB p445	6825	He is one of those who are beautiful and happy— {+¶+}he is one of those that to look upon and be with is enough.
BB p445	6826	The law of the past cannot be eluded,
BB p445	6827	The law of the present and future cannot be eluded,
BB p445	6828	The law of the living cannot be eluded—it is eter- nal,
BB p445	6829	The law of promotion and transformation cannot be eluded,
BB p445	6830	The law of heroes and good-doers cannot be eluded,
BB p445	6831	e law of drunkards, informers, mean persons— not one iota of it can be eluded.
BB p445	6832	Slow-moving and black lines go ceaselessly over the earth,
BB p445	6833	Northerner goes carried, and southerner goes carried, {+¶+} [-a-] {+A+} nd they on the Atlantic side, and they on the Pacific, and they between, [-a-] {+A+} nd all through the Mississippi country, and all over the earth.
BB p446	6834	The great masters and kosmos are well as they go— the heroes and good-doers are well,
BB p446	6835	The known leaders and inventors, and the rich owners and pious and distinguished, may be well,
BB p446	6836	But there is more account than that—there is strict account of all.
BB p446	6837	The interminable hordes of the ignorant and wicked are not nothing,
BB p446	6838	The barbarians of Africa and Asia are not nothing,
BB p446	6839	The common people of Europe are not nothing—the American aborigines are not nothing,
BB p446	6840	The infected in the immigrant hospital are not nothing—the murderer or mean person is not nothing,
BB p446	6841	The perpetual successions of shallow people are not nothing as they go,
BB p446	6842	The lowest prostitute is not nothing—the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes.
BB p446	6843	I shall go with the rest—we have satisfaction,
BB p446	6844	I have dreamed that we are not to be changed so much, nor the law of us changed,
BB p446	6845	I have dreamed that heroes and good-doers shall be under the present and past law,
BB p446	6846	And that murderers, drunkards, liars, shall be under the present and past law,
BB p446	6847	For I have dreamed that the law they are under now is enough.
BB p446	6848	And I have dreamed that the satisfaction is not so much changed, and that there is no life with- out satisfaction;
BB p446	6849	What is the earth? what are body and Soul, without satisfaction?
BB p447	6850	I shall go with the rest,
BB p447	6851	We cannot be stopped at a given point—that is no satisfaction,
BB p447	6852	To show us a good thing, or a few good things, for a space of time—that is no satisfaction,
BB p447	6853	We must have the indestructible breed of the best, regardless of time.
BB p447	6854	If otherwise, all these things came but to ashes of dung,
BB p447	6855	If maggots and rats ended us, then [-alarm!-] {+Alarum!+} for we are betrayed!
BB p447	6856	Then indeed suspicion of death.
BB p447	6857	Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death, I should die now [-,-] {+;+}
BB p447	6858	Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well-suited toward annihilation?
BB p447	6859	Pleasantly and well-suited I walk [-,-] {+;+}
BB p447	6860	Whither I walk I cannot define, but I know it is good,
BB p447	6861	The whole universe indicates that it is good,
BB p447	6862	The past and the present indicate that it is good.
BB p447	6863	How beautiful and perfect are the animals! How perfect is my Soul!
BB p447	6864	How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!
BB p447	6865	What is called good is perfect, and what is called bad is just as perfect,
BB p447	6866	The vegetables and minerals are all perfect, and the imponderable fluids are perfect;
BB p447	6867	Slowly and surely they have passed on to this, and slowly and surely they yet pass on.
BB p448	6868	My Soul! if I realize you, I have satisfaction,
BB p448	6869	Animals and vegetables! if I realize you, I have sat- isfaction,
BB p448	6870	Laws of the earth and air! if I realize you, I have satisfaction.
BB p448	6871	I cannot define my satisfaction, yet it is so,
BB p448	6872	I cannot define my life, yet it is so.
BB p448	6873	O it comes to me now[-!-]{+lighting up Burial and Time!+}
BB p448	6874	I swear I think now that everything without excep- tion has an eternal Soul!
BB p448	6875	The trees have, rooted in the ground! the weeds of the sea have! the animals!
BB p448	6876	I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
BB p448	6877	That the exquisite scheme is for it, and the nebulous float is for it, and the cohering is for it!
BB p448	6878	And all preparation is for it! and identity is for it! and life and death are altogether for it!
BB p449	6879	AS nearing departure,
BB p449	6880	As the time draws nigh, glooming{+,+} [-from you,-] {+[-—-] a cloud,+}
BB p449	6881	A [-cloud—a-] dread beyond, of I know not what, dark- ens me.
BB p449	6882	I [-shall-] {+that yet+} go forth [-,-] {+.+} [- {+yet {+for+} awhile,+} -]
BB p449	6883	I < [-shall-] > traverse The States—but I cannot tell whither or how long;
BB p449	6884	< [-Perhaps-] > [- {+And+} -] soon, some day or night [- {+perhaps+} -]while I am singing, [- {+ +} -]my voice will suddenly cease.
BB p449	6885	O Book and Chant! must all then amount to but this?
BB p449	6886	O Body & Soul! was our long presistent voyage [- but -] {+only+} for this!
BB p449	6887	Was our life of struggling & pride only for this?
BB p449	6888	[-For all has-] {+Was it all to+} barely arrive[-d-] [- {+but+} -] at this beginning of me!
BB p449	6889	This beginning of me . . . . And yet it is Enough, O Soul!
BB p449	6890	We have positively appeared—that is enough.
BB p449	6891	All moves over us, we are patient
BB p449	6892	From my tent [- {+of war+} -] emerging[-,-] [-no more-] {+for good+}
BB p449	6893	[-Loosing-] the tent‑ropes
BB p449	6894	O [- {+my+} -] Soul! [- {+then all arrive [-d-] {+s+} at last this?+} -] {+is [-all [-to-] then-] {+ [-your-] {+our+} long persistent voyage+} only for this?+}
BB p449	6895	[-Then all may arrive to but this;-]
BB p449	6896	The glances of my eyes, that swept the daylight,
BB p449	6897	The unspeakable love I interchanged with women,
BB p449	6898	My joys in the open air—my walks through the Man- nahatta,
BB p449	6899	The continual good will I have met—the curious attachment of young men to me,
BB p449	6900	My reflections alone—the absorption into me from the landscape, stars, animals, thunder, rain, and snow, in my wanderings alone,
BB p449	6901	The words of my mouth, rude, ignorant, arrogant— my many faults and derelictions,
BB p449	6902	Must [- {+all your+} -] [-all this-] [- {+my life of+} -] {+our life of+} struggl[-es-]{+ing+} [-and-] {+and+} pride and [-hope-] {+our [-your-] foil'd hope & love+} amount to but this?
BB p450	6903	The light touches, on my lips, of the lips of my com- rades, at parting,
BB p450	6904	The tracks which I leave, upon the side-walks and fields, [- {+this private exercise,+} -]
BB p450	6905	[-May-] [- {+ +} -] {+Must all+} but arrive < [-at this beginning of me,-] >
BB p450	6906	This [- {+bare+} -] beginning of me {+. . . . +}— < [-a-] > [- {+A+} -] nd yet it is enough, O [-my-] Soul [-,-] {+;+}
BB p450	6907	O [- {+my+} -] Soul, we have positively appeared—that is enough.
BB p451	6908	TO conclude[- {+, So long!+} -] —I announce what comes after me,
BB p451	6909	The thought must be promulged, [-that-] all I know at any time suffices for [-that-] {+the+} time [-only-]—not subse- quent time;
BB p451	6910	I announce greater offspring, orators, days [-,-] {+—+} and then depart.
BB p451	6911	I remember I said [-to myself at the winter-close,-] before my leaves sprang{+,+} [-at all,-] [-that-] [-{+¶+}I would become a candid and unloosed summer-poet-] [- [-,-] {+;+} -]
BB p451	6912	[- {+ +} -] I [-said I-] < [-would-] > rais < [-e-] > [- {+ing+} -] my voice jocund and strong, < [-with-] > [- {+d+} -] < [-reference to-] > consummations.
BB p451	6913	When America does what was promised,
BB p451	6914	When each part is peopled with free people,
BB p451	6915	When there is no city on earth to lead my city, the city of young men, the Mannahatta city—But when the Mannahatta leads all the cities of the earth,
BB p451	6916	When [-there are-] plentiful athletic bards{+appear,+}[-,-] inland and seaboard,
BB p451	6917	When through These States walk [-a hundred-] millions of superb persons,
BB p451	6918	When the rest part away for superb persons, and con- tribute to them,
BB p452	6919	When [-fathers, firm, unconstrained, open-eyed—When-] breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
BB p452	6920	[-Then to me {+content+} [-ripeness and conclusion.-]-] {+Then to me the [-results-] {+end+} of my carols+}
BB p452	6921	Yet < [-not me, after all—let none be content-] > [- {+ +} -] with me [-,-] {+?+}
BB p452	6922	I myself seek a man better than I am, or a woman better than I am,
BB p452	6923	I invite defiance, and to make myself superseded,
BB p452	6924	All I have done, I [-would-] cheerfully give to be trod under foot, [-if it might only be-] {+for+} the soil of supe- rior poems.
BB p452	6925	I have established nothing for good,
BB p452	6926	I have but established these things, till things farther onward shall be prepared to be established,
BB p452	6927	And I [-am-] myself {+am but+} the preparer of things farther onward.
BB p452	6928	I have pressed through in my own right,
BB p452	6929	I have offered my style to every one—I have jour- neyed with confident step,
BB p452	6930	While my pleasure is yet at the full, I whisper So long,
BB p452	6931	And take the young woman's hand, and the young man's hand, [- {+ And give them, projected, the sound of my voice, for the [-last time.-] [- {+future.+} -] {+last time.+} +} -] < [-for the last time.-] > [- {+and draw them +} -]
BB p452	6932	And give them, projected, the sound of my voice, for the [-last time.-] [- {+future.+} -] {+last time.+}
BB p452	6933	Once more I enforce you to give play to yourself— and not depend on me, [-or on any one but yourself,-]
BB p452	6934	Once more I proclaim the whole of America for each individual, without exception
BB p453	6935	As I have announced the true theory of the youth, manhood, womanhood, of The States, I adhere to it;
BB p453	6936	As I have announced myself on immortality, the body, procreation, hauteur, prudence,
BB p453	6937	As I joined the stern crowd that still confronts the President with menacing weapons—I adhere to all,
BB p453	6938	As I have announced each age for itself, this moment I set the example.
BB p453	6939	I demand the choicest edifices to destroy them;
BB p453	6940	Room! room! for new far-planning draughtsmen and engineers!
BB p453	6941	Clear that rubbish from the building-spots and the paths!
BB p453	6942	So long!
BB p453	6943	I announce natural persons to arise,
BB p453	6944	I announce justice triumphant,
BB p453	6945	I announce uncompromising liberty and equality,
BB p453	6946	I announce the justification of candor, and the justi- fication of pride.
BB p453	6947	I announce that the identity of These States is a single identity only,
BB p453	6948	I announce [- {+out of all its wars,+} -] the Union more and more compact,
BB p453	6949	I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.
BB p453	6950	I announce adhesiveness—I say it shall be limitless, unloosened,
BB p454	6951	I say you shall yet find the friend you [-was-] {+were+} look- ing for.
BB p454	6952	So long!
BB p454	6953	I announce a man or woman coming—perhaps you are the one,{+[-—-] (So long!)+}
BB p454	6954	I announce a great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed.
BB p454	6955	So long!
BB p454	6956	I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,
BB p454	6957	And I announce an old age that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
BB p454	6958	O thicker and faster!{+[-—-] (So long!)+}
BB p454	6959	O crowding too close upon me!
BB p454	6960	I foresee too much—it means more than I thought,
BB p454	6961	{+So long! +} < [-It appears to me I am dying.-] >
BB p454	6962	[-Now-] {+Hasten+} throat[-,-]{+[-—-]and+} sound your last! [- {+ So long! +} -]
BB p454	6963	Salute me—salute the [-future-] {+days+} once more. Peal the old cry once more.
BB p454	6964	Screaming electric, the atmosphere using,
BB p454	6965	At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,
BB p454	6966	Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,
BB p454	6967	Curious enveloped messages delivering,
BB p454	6968	Sparkles hot, seed ethereal, down in the dirt dropping,
BB p454	6969	Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to ques- tion it never daring,
BB p454	6970	To ages, and ages yet, the growth of the seed leaving,
BB p455	6971	To troops out of me rising—they the tasks I have set promulging,
BB p455	6972	To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing— their affection me more clearly explaining,
BB p455	6973	To young men my problems offering—no dallier I— I the muscle of their brains trying,
BB p455	6974	So I pass—a little time vocal, visible, contrary,
BB p455	6975	Afterward, a melodious echo, passionately bent for— {+(+}death making me {+really+} undying,{+)+}
BB p455	6976	The best of me then when no longer visible—for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.
BB p455	6977	What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
BB p455	6978	Is there a single final farewell?
BB p455	6979	My songs cease—I abandon them,
BB p455	6980	From behind the screen where I hid, I advance per- sonally {+¶ [-s-] {+S+} olely [- {+reader,+} -] to you [-,-] {+.+} [-whoever you are.-]+}.
BB p455	6981	{+Camerado,+} This is no book,
BB p455	6982	Who touches this, touches a man,
BB p455	6983	(Is it night? Are we here alone?)
BB p455	6984	It is I you hold, and who holds you,
BB p455	6985	I spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.
BB p455	6986	So long!
BB p455	6987	O how your fingers drowse me! [- {+So long!+} -]
BB p455	6988	Your breath falls around me like dew—your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
BB p455	6989	I feel immerged from head to foot,
BB p455	6990	Delicious—enough.
BB p456	6991	Enough, O deed impromptu and secret!
BB p456	6992	Enough, O gliding present! Enough, O summ [-e-] {+'+} d-up past!
BB p456	6993	Dear friend, whoever you are, here, take this kiss,
BB p456	6994	I give it especially to you—Do not forget me,
BB p456	6995	I feel like one who has done his work—I progress on [-,-] {+;+}
BB p456	6996	The unknown sphere, more < [-real-] > [- {+eet+} -] than I dreamed, more direct, darts awakening rays about me— So long!
BB p456	6997	Remember my words—I love you—I depart from materials,
BB p456	6998	I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.