1. ۱FULL of life, now, compact, visible,
2. ۲I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,
3. ۳To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence,
4. ۴To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you.
5. ۵
6. ۶When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible;
7. ۷Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me;
8. ۸Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your comrade;
9. ۹Be it as if I were with you. (Be not too certain but I am now with you.)