1. ۱1
2. ۲STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born,
3. ۳Well-begotten, and rais’d by a perfect mother;
4. ۴After roaming many lands—lover of populous pavements;
5. ۵Dweller in Mannahatta, my city—or on southern savannas;
6. ۶Or a soldier camp’d, or carrying my knapsack and gun—or a miner in
7. ۷ California;
8. ۸Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink from the
9. ۹ spring;
10. ۱۰Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess,
11. ۱۱Far from the clank of crowds, intervals passing, rapt and happy;
12. ۱۲Aware of the fresh free giver, the flowing Missouri—aware of mighty
13. ۱۳ Niagara;
14. ۱۴Aware of the buffalo herds, grazing the plains—the hirsute and
15. ۱۵ strong-breasted bull;
16. ۱۶Of earth, rocks, Fifth-month flowers, experienced—stars, rain, snow, my
17. ۱۷ amaze;
18. ۱۸Having studied the mocking-bird’s tones, and the mountainhawk’s,
19. ۱۹And heard at dusk the unrival’d one, the hermit thrush from the
20. ۲۰ swamp-cedars,
21. ۲۱Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.
22. ۲۲
23. ۲۳2Victory, union, faith, identity, time,
24. ۲۴The indissoluble compacts, riches, mystery,
25. ۲۵Eternal progress, the kosmos, and the modern reports.
26. ۲۶
27. ۲۷This, then, is life;
28. ۲۸Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and convulsions.
29. ۲۹
30. ۳۰How curious! how real!
31. ۳۱Underfoot the divine soil—overhead the sun.
32. ۳۲
33. ۳۳See, revolving, the globe;
34. ۳۴The ancestor-continents, away, group’d together;
35. ۳۵The present and future continents, north and south, with the isthmus between.
36. ۳۶
37. ۳۷See, vast, trackless spaces;
38. ۳۸As in a dream, they change, they swiftly fill;
39. ۳۹Countless masses debouch upon them;
40. ۴۰They are now cover’d with the foremost people, arts, institutions, known.
41. ۴۱
42. ۴۲See, projected, through time,
43. ۴۳For me, an audience interminable.
44. ۴۴
45. ۴۵With firm and regular step they wend—they never stop,
46. ۴۶Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions;
47. ۴۷One generation playing its part, and passing on;
48. ۴۸Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn,
49. ۴۹With faces turn’d sideways or backward towards me, to listen,
50. ۵۰With eyes retrospective towards me,
51. ۵۱
52. ۵۲3Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian;
53. ۵۳Foremost! century marches! Libertad! masses!
54. ۵۴For you a programme of chants.
55. ۵۵
56. ۵۶Chants of the prairies;
57. ۵۷Chants of the long-running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea;
58. ۵۸Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota;
59. ۵۹Chants going forth from the centre, from Kansas, and thence, equi-distant,
60. ۶۰Shooting in pulses of fire, ceaseless, to vivify all.
61. ۶۱
62. ۶۲4In the Year 80 of The States,
63. ۶۳My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
64. ۶۴Born here of parents born here, from parents the same, and their parents the
65. ۶۵ same,
66. ۶۶I, now thirty-six years old, in perfect health, begin,
67. ۶۷Hoping to cease not till death.
68. ۶۸
69. ۶۹Creeds and schools in abeyance,
70. ۷۰(Retiring back a while, sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,)
71. ۷۱I harbor, for good or bad—I permit to speak, at every hazard,
72. ۷۲Nature now without check, with original energy.
73. ۷۳
74. ۷۴5Take my leaves, America! take them, South, and take them, North!
75. ۷۵Make welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own offspring;
76. ۷۶Surround them, East and West! for they would surround you;
77. ۷۷And you precedents! connect lovingly with them, for they connect lovingly with
78. ۷۸ you.
79. ۷۹
80. ۸۰I conn’d old times;
81. ۸۱I sat studying at the feet of the great masters:
82. ۸۲Now, if eligible, O that the great masters might return and study me!
83. ۸۳
84. ۸۴In the name of These States, shall I scorn the antique?
85. ۸۵Why These are the children of the antique, to justify it.
86. ۸۶
87. ۸۷6Dead poets, philosophs, priests,
88. ۸۸Martyrs, artists, inventors, governments long since,
89. ۸۹Language-shapers, on other shores,
90. ۹۰Nations once powerful, now reduced, withdrawn, or desolate,
91. ۹۱I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left, wafted hither:
92. ۹۲
93. ۹۳I have perused it—own it is admirable, (moving awhile among it;)
94. ۹۴Think nothing can ever be greater—nothing can ever deserve more than it
95. ۹۵ deserves;
96. ۹۶Regarding it all intently a long while—then dismissing it,
97. ۹۷I stand in my place, with my own day, here.
98. ۹۸
99. ۹۹Here lands female and male;
100. ۱۰۰Here the heir-ship and heiress-ship of the world—here the flame of
101. ۱۰۱ materials;
102. ۱۰۲Here Spirituality, the translatress, the openly-avow’d,
103. ۱۰۳The ever-tending, the finale of visible forms;
104. ۱۰۴The satisfier, after due long-waiting, now advancing,
105. ۱۰۵Yes, here comes my mistress, the Soul.
106. ۱۰۶
107. ۱۰۷7The SOUL:
108. ۱۰۸Forever and forever—longer than soil is brown and solid—longer than
109. ۱۰۹ water ebbs and flows.
110. ۱۱۰
111. ۱۱۱I will make the poems of materials, for I think they are to be the most
112. ۱۱۲ spiritual poems;
113. ۱۱۳And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality,
114. ۱۱۴For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my Soul, and of
115. ۱۱۵ immortality.
116. ۱۱۶
117. ۱۱۷I will make a song for These States, that no-one State may under any
118. ۱۱۸ circumstances be subjected to another State;
119. ۱۱۹And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night between
120. ۱۲۰ all The States, and between any two of them:
121. ۱۲۱And I will make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with
122. ۱۲۲ menacing points,
123. ۱۲۳And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces:
124. ۱۲۴—And a song make I, of the One form’d out of all;
125. ۱۲۵The fang’d and glittering One whose head is over all;
126. ۱۲۶Resolute, warlike One, including and over all;
127. ۱۲۷(However high the head of any else, that head is over all.)
128. ۱۲۸
129. ۱۲۹I will acknowledge contemporary lands;
130. ۱۳۰I will trail the whole geography of the globe, and salute courteously every city
131. ۱۳۱ large and small;
132. ۱۳۲And employments! I will put in my poems, that with you is heroism, upon land and
133. ۱۳۳ sea;
134. ۱۳۴And I will report all heroism from an American point of view.
135. ۱۳۵
136. ۱۳۶I will sing the song of companionship;
137. ۱۳۷I will show what alone must finally compact These;
138. ۱۳۸I believe These are to found their own ideal of manly love, indicating it in me;
139. ۱۳۹
140. ۱۴۰I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were threatening to
141. ۱۴۱ consume me;
142. ۱۴۲I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires;
143. ۱۴۳I will give them complete abandonment;
144. ۱۴۴I will write the evangel-poem of comrades, and of love;
145. ۱۴۵(For who but I should understand love, with all its sorrow and joy?
146. ۱۴۶And who but I should be the poet of comrades?)
147. ۱۴۷
148. ۱۴۸8I am the credulous man of qualities, ages, races;
149. ۱۴۹I advance from the people in their own spirit;
150. ۱۵۰Here is what sings unrestricted faith.
151. ۱۵۱
152. ۱۵۲Omnes! Omnes! let others ignore what they may;
153. ۱۵۳I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also;
154. ۱۵۴I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—And I say there is
155. ۱۵۵ in fact no evil;
156. ۱۵۶(Or if there is, I say it is just as important to you, to the land, or to me, as
157. ۱۵۷ anything else.)
158. ۱۵۸
159. ۱۵۹I too, following many, and follow’d by many, inaugurate a Religion—I
160. ۱۶۰ descend into the arena;
161. ۱۶۱(It may be I am destin’d to utter the loudest cries there, the
162. ۱۶۲ winner’s pealing shouts;
163. ۱۶۳Who knows? they may rise from me yet, and soar above every thing.)
164. ۱۶۴
165. ۱۶۵Each is not for its own sake;
166. ۱۶۶I say the whole earth, and all the stars in the sky, are for Religion’s
167. ۱۶۷ sake.
168. ۱۶۸
169. ۱۶۹I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough;
170. ۱۷۰None has ever yet adored or worship’d half enough;
171. ۱۷۱None has begun to think how divine he himself is, and how certain the future is.
172. ۱۷۲
173. ۱۷۳
174. ۱۷۴I say that the real and permanent grandeur of These States must be their
175. ۱۷۵ Religion;
176. ۱۷۶Otherwise there is no real and permanent grandeur:
177. ۱۷۷(Nor character, nor life worthy the name, without Religion;
178. ۱۷۸Nor land, nor man or woman, without Religion.)
179. ۱۷۹
180. ۱۸۰9What are you doing, young man?
181. ۱۸۱Are you so earnest—so given up to literature, science, art, amours?
182. ۱۸۲These ostensible realities, politics, points?
183. ۱۸۳Your ambition or business, whatever it may be?
184. ۱۸۴
185. ۱۸۵It is well—Against such I say not a word—I am their poet also;
186. ۱۸۶But behold! such swiftly subside—burnt up for Religion’s sake;
187. ۱۸۷For not all matter is fuel to heat, impalpable flame, the essential life of the
188. ۱۸۸ earth,
189. ۱۸۹Any more than such are to Religion.
190. ۱۹۰
191. ۱۹۱10What do you seek, so pensive and silent?
192. ۱۹۲What do you need, Camerado?
193. ۱۹۳Dear son! do you think it is love?
194. ۱۹۴
195. ۱۹۵Listen, dear son—listen, America, daughter or son!
196. ۱۹۶It is a painful thing to love a man or woman to excess—and yet it
197. ۱۹۷ satisfies—it is great;
198. ۱۹۸But there is something else very great—it makes the whole coincide;
199. ۱۹۹It, magnificent, beyond materials, with continuous hands, sweeps and provides
200. ۲۰۰ for all.
201. ۲۰۱
202. ۲۰۲11Know you! solely to drop in the earth the germs of a greater Religion,
203. ۲۰۳The following chants, each for its kind, I sing.
204. ۲۰۴
205. ۲۰۵My comrade!
206. ۲۰۶For you, to share with me, two greatnesses—and a third one, rising
207. ۲۰۷ inclusive and more resplendent,
208. ۲۰۸The greatness of Love and Democracy—and the greatness of Religion.
209. ۲۰۹
210. ۲۱۰Melange mine own! the unseen and the seen;
211. ۲۱۱Mysterious ocean where the streams empty;
212. ۲۱۲Prophetic spirit of materials shifting and flickering around me;
213. ۲۱۳Living beings, identities, now doubtless near us, in the air, that we know not
214. ۲۱۴ of;
215. ۲۱۵Contact daily and hourly that will not release me;
216. ۲۱۶These selecting—these, in hints, demanded of me.
217. ۲۱۷
218. ۲۱۸Not he, with a daily kiss, onward from childhood kissing me,
219. ۲۱۹Has winded and twisted around me that which holds me to him,
220. ۲۲۰Any more than I am held to the heavens, to the spiritual world,
221. ۲۲۱And to the identities of the Gods, my lovers, faithful and true,
222. ۲۲۲After what they have done to me, suggesting themes.
223. ۲۲۳
224. ۲۲۴O such themes! Equalities!
225. ۲۲۵O amazement of things! O divine average!
226. ۲۲۶O warblings under the sun—usher’d, as now, or at noon, or setting!
227. ۲۲۷O strain, musical, flowing through ages—now reaching hither!
228. ۲۲۸I take to your reckless and composite chords—I add to them, and cheerfully
229. ۲۲۹ pass them forward.
230. ۲۳۰
231. ۲۳۱12As I have walk’d in Alabama my morning walk,
232. ۲۳۲I have seen where the she-bird, the mocking-bird, sat on her nest in the briers,
233. ۲۳۳ hatching her brood.
234. ۲۳۴
235. ۲۳۵I have seen the he-bird also;
236. ۲۳۶I have paused to hear him, near at hand, inflating his throat, and joyfully
237. ۲۳۷ singing.
238. ۲۳۸
239. ۲۳۹And while I paused, it came to me that what he really sang for was not there
240. ۲۴۰ only,
241. ۲۴۱Nor for his mate, nor himself only, nor all sent back by the echoes;
242. ۲۴۲But subtle, clandestine, away beyond,
243. ۲۴۳A charge transmitted, and gift occult, for those being born.
244. ۲۴۴
245. ۲۴۵13Democracy!
246. ۲۴۶Near at hand to you a throat is now inflating itself and joyfully singing.
247. ۲۴۷
248. ۲۴۸Ma femme!
249. ۲۴۹For the brood beyond us and of us,
250. ۲۵۰For those who belong here, and those to come,
251. ۲۵۱I, exultant, to be ready for them, will now shake out carols stronger and
252. ۲۵۲ haughtier than have ever yet been heard upon earth.
253. ۲۵۳
254. ۲۵۴I will make the songs of passion, to give them their way,
255. ۲۵۵And your songs, outlaw’d offenders—for I scan you with kindred eyes,
256. ۲۵۶ and carry you with me the same as any.
257. ۲۵۷
258. ۲۵۸I will make the true poem of riches,
259. ۲۵۹To earn for the body and the mind whatever adheres, and goes forward, and is not
260. ۲۶۰ dropt by death.
261. ۲۶۱
262. ۲۶۲I will effuse egotism, and show it underlying all—and I will be the bard of
263. ۲۶۳ personality;
264. ۲۶۴And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other;
265. ۲۶۵And ... organs and acts! do you concentrate in me—for I am
266. ۲۶۶ determin’d to tell you with courageous clear voice, to prove you
267. ۲۶۷ illustrious;
268. ۲۶۸And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present—and can be
269. ۲۶۹ none in the future;
270. ۲۷۰And I will show that whatever happens to anybody, it may be turn’d to
271. ۲۷۱ beautiful results—and I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful
272. ۲۷۲ than death;
273. ۲۷۳And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact,
274. ۲۷۴And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound
275. ۲۷۵ as any.
276. ۲۷۶
277. ۲۷۷I will not make poems with reference to parts;
278. ۲۷۸But I will make leaves, poems, poemets, songs, says, thoughts with reference to
279. ۲۷۹ ensemble:
280. ۲۸۰And I will not sing with reference to a day, but with reference to all days;
281. ۲۸۱And I will not make a poem, nor the least part of a poem, but has reference to
282. ۲۸۲ the Soul;
283. ۲۸۳(Because, having look’d at the objects of the universe, I find there is no
284. ۲۸۴ one, nor any particle of one, but has reference to the Soul.)
285. ۲۸۵
286. ۲۸۶14Was somebody asking to see the Soul?
287. ۲۸۷See! your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, beasts, the trees,
288. ۲۸۸ the running rivers, the rocks and sands.
289. ۲۸۹
290. ۲۹۰All hold spiritual joys, and afterwards loosen them:
291. ۲۹۱How can the real body ever die, and be buried?
292. ۲۹۲
293. ۲۹۳Of your real body, and any man’s or woman’s real body,
294. ۲۹۴Item for item, it will elude the hands of the corpse-cleaners, and pass to
295. ۲۹۵ fitting spheres,
296. ۲۹۶Carrying what has accrued to it from the moment of birth to the moment of death.
297. ۲۹۷
298. ۲۹۸Not the types set up by the printer return their impression, the meaning, the
299. ۲۹۹ main concern,
300. ۳۰۰Any more than a man’s substance and life, or a woman’s substance and
301. ۳۰۱ life, return in the body and the Soul,
302. ۳۰۲Indifferently before death and after death.
303. ۳۰۳
304. ۳۰۴Behold! the body includes and is the meaning, the main concern—and includes
305. ۳۰۵ and is the Soul;
306. ۳۰۶Whoever you are! how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it.
307. ۳۰۷
308. ۳۰۸15Whoever you are! to you endless announcements.
309. ۳۰۹
310. ۳۱۰Daughter of the lands, did you wait for your poet?
311. ۳۱۱Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
312. ۳۱۲
313. ۳۱۳Toward the male of The States, and toward the female of The States,
314. ۳۱۴Live words—words to the lands.
315. ۳۱۵
316. ۳۱۶O the lands! interlink’d, food-yielding lands!
317. ۳۱۷Land of coal and iron! Land of gold! Lands of cotton, sugar, rice!
318. ۳۱۸Land of wheat, beef, pork! Land of wool and hemp! Land of the apple and grape!
319. ۳۱۹Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! Land of those
320. ۳۲۰ sweet-air’d interminable plateaus!
321. ۳۲۱Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
322. ۳۲۲Lands where the northwest Columbia winds, and where the southwest Colorado
323. ۳۲۳ winds!
324. ۳۲۴Land of the eastern Chesapeake! Land of the Delaware!
325. ۳۲۵Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan!
326. ۳۲۶Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! Land of Vermont and Connecticut!
327. ۳۲۷Land of the ocean shores! Land of sierras and peaks!
328. ۳۲۸Land of boatmen and sailors! Fishermen’s land!
329. ۳۲۹Inextricable lands! the clutch’d together! the passionate ones!
330. ۳۳۰The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb’d!
331. ۳۳۱The great women’s land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and the
332. ۳۳۲ inexperienced sisters!
333. ۳۳۳Far breath’d land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! the
334. ۳۳۴ compact!
335. ۳۳۵The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!
336. ۳۳۶O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include
337. ۳۳۷ you all with perfect love!
338. ۳۳۸I cannot be discharged from you! not from one, any sooner than another!
339. ۳۳۹O Death! O for all that, I am yet of you, unseen, this hour, with irrepressible
340. ۳۴۰ love,
341. ۳۴۱Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
342. ۳۴۲Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples, on Paumanok’s
343. ۳۴۳ sands,
344. ۳۴۴Crossing the prairies—dwelling again in Chicago—dwelling in every
345. ۳۴۵ town,
346. ۳۴۶Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
347. ۳۴۷Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public halls,
348. ۳۴۸Of and through The States, as during life—each man and woman my neighbor,
349. ۳۴۹The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
350. ۳۵۰The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me—and I yet with any of them;
351. ۳۵۱Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river—yet in my house of adobie,
352. ۳۵۲Yet returning eastward—yet in the Sea-Side State, or in Maryland,
353. ۳۵۳Yet Kanadian, cheerily braving the winter—the snow and ice welcome to me,
354. ۳۵۴Yet a true son either of Maine, or of the Granite State, or of the Narragansett
355. ۳۵۵ Bay State, or of the Empire State;
356. ۳۵۶Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same—yet welcoming every new
357. ۳۵۷ brother;
358. ۳۵۸Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones, from the hour they unite with the
359. ۳۵۹ old ones;
360. ۳۶۰Coming among the new ones myself, to be their companion and equal—coming
361. ۳۶۱ personally to you now;
362. ۳۶۲Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.
363. ۳۶۳
364. ۳۶۴16With me, with firm holding—yet haste, haste on.
365. ۳۶۵
366. ۳۶۶For your life, adhere to me!
367. ۳۶۷Of all the men of the earth, I only can unloose you and toughen you;
368. ۳۶۸I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give myself really to
369. ۳۶۹ you—but what of that?
370. ۳۷۰Must not Nature be persuaded many times?
371. ۳۷۱
372. ۳۷۲No dainty dolce affettuoso I;
373. ۳۷۳Bearded, sun-burnt, gray-neck’d, forbidding, I have arrived,
374. ۳۷۴To be wrestled with as I pass, for the solid prizes of the universe;
375. ۳۷۵For such I afford whoever can persevere to win them.
376. ۳۷۶
377. ۳۷۷17On my way a moment I pause;
378. ۳۷۸Here for you! and here for America!
379. ۳۷۹Still the Present I raise aloft—Still the Future of The States I harbinge,
380. ۳۸۰ glad and sublime;
381. ۳۸۱And for the Past, I pronounce what the air holds of the red aborigines.
382. ۳۸۲
383. ۳۸۳The red aborigines!
384. ۳۸۴Leaving natural breaths, sounds of rain and winds, calls as of birds and animals
385. ۳۸۵ in the woods, syllabled to us for names;
386. ۳۸۶Okonee, Koosa, Ottawa, Monongahela, Sauk, Natchez, Chattahoochee, Kaqueta,
387. ۳۸۷ Oronoco,
388. ۳۸۸Wabash, Miami, Saginaw, Chippewa, Oshkosh, Walla-Walla;
389. ۳۸۹Leaving such to The States, they melt, they depart, charging the water and the
390. ۳۹۰ land with names.
391. ۳۹۱
392. ۳۹۲18O expanding and swift! O henceforth,
393. ۳۹۳Elements, breeds, adjustments, turbulent, quick, and audacious;
394. ۳۹۴A world primal again—Vistas of glory, incessant and branching;
395. ۳۹۵A new race, dominating previous ones, and grander far—with new contests,
396. ۳۹۶New politics, new literatures and religions, new inventions and arts.
397. ۳۹۷
398. ۳۹۸These! my voice announcing—I will sleep no more, but arise;
399. ۳۹۹You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring,
400. ۴۰۰ preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
401. ۴۰۱
402. ۴۰۲19See! steamers steaming through my poems!
403. ۴۰۳See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing;
404. ۴۰۴See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter’s hut, the flatboat, the
405. ۴۰۵ maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village;
406. ۴۰۶See, on the one side the Western Sea, and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they
407. ۴۰۷ advance and retreat upon my poems, as upon their own shores.
408. ۴۰۸
409. ۴۰۹See, pastures and forests in my poems—See, animals, wild and tame—See,
410. ۴۱۰ beyond the Kanzas, countless herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass;
411. ۴۱۱See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and
412. ۴۱۲ stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce;
413. ۴۱۳See, the many-cylinder’d steam printing-press—See, the electric
414. ۴۱۴ telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Manhattan;
415. ۴۱۵See, through Atlantica’s depths, pulses American, Europe
416. ۴۱۶ reaching—pulses of Europe, duly return’d;
417. ۴۱۷See, the strong and quick locomotive, as it departs, panting, blowing the
418. ۴۱۸ steam-whistle;
419. ۴۱۹See, ploughmen, ploughing farms—See, miners, digging mines—See, the
420. ۴۲۰ numberless factories;
421. ۴۲۱See, mechanics, busy at their benches, with tools—See from among them,
422. ۴۲۲ superior judges, philosophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses;
423. ۴۲۳See, lounging through the shops and fields of The States, me, well-belov’d,
424. ۴۲۴ close-held by day and night;
425. ۴۲۵Hear the loud echoes of my songs there! Read the hints come at last.
426. ۴۲۶
427. ۴۲۷20O Camerado close!
428. ۴۲۸O you and me at last—and us two only.
429. ۴۲۹
430. ۴۳۰O a word to clear one’s path ahead endlessly!
431. ۴۳۱O something extatic and undemonstrable! O music wild!
432. ۴۳۲
433. ۴۳۳O now I triumph—and you shall also;
434. ۴۳۴O hand in hand—O wholesome pleasure—O one more desirer and lover!
435. ۴۳۵O to haste, firm holding—to haste, haste on with me.