1. ۱1
2. ۲AS the time draws nigh, glooming, a cloud,
3. ۳A dread beyond, of I know not what, darkens me.
4. ۴
5. ۵I shall go forth,
6. ۶I shall traverse The States awhile—but I cannot tell whither or how long;
7. ۷Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my voice will suddenly cease.
8. ۸
9. ۹2
10. ۱۰O book, O chants! must all then amount to but this?
11. ۱۱Must we barely arrive at this beginning of us?... And yet it is enough, O soul!
12. ۱۲O soul! we have positively appear’d—that is enough.