1. ۱1
2. ۲O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman!
3. ۳Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
4. ۴Such join’d unended links, each hook’d to the next!
5. ۵Each answering all—each sharing the earth with all.
6. ۶
7. ۷What widens within you, Walt Whitman?
8. ۸What waves and soils exuding?
9. ۹What climes? what persons and lands are here?
10. ۱۰Who are the infants? some playing, some slumbering?
11. ۱۱Who are the girls? who are the married women?
12. ۱۲Who are the groups of old men going slowly with their arms about each other’s necks?
13. ۱۳What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
14. ۱۴What are the mountains call’d that rise so high in the mists?
15. ۱۵What myriads of dwellings are they, fill’d with dwellers?
16. ۱۶
17. ۱۷2
18. ۱۸Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens;
19. ۱۹Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west;
20. ۲۰Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,
21. ۲۱Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends;
22. ۲۲Within me is the longest day—the sun wheels in slanting rings—it does not set for months;
23. ۲۳
24. ۲۴Stretch’d in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon, and sinks
25. ۲۵ again;
26. ۲۶
27. ۲۷Within me zones, seas, cataracts, plants, volcanoes, groups,
28. ۲۸Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.
29. ۲۹
30. ۳۰3
31. ۳۱What do you hear, Walt Whitman?
32. ۳۲
33. ۳۳I hear the workman singing, and the farmer’s wife singing;
34. ۳۴I hear in the distance the sounds of children, and of animals early in the day;
35. ۳۵I hear quick rifle-cracks from the riflemen of East Tennessee and Kentucky, hunting on
36. ۳۶ hills;
37. ۳۷I hear emulous shouts of Australians, pursuing the wild horse;
38. ۳۸I hear the Spanish dance, with castanets, in the chestnut shade, to the rebeck and guitar;
39. ۳۹
40. ۴۰I hear continual echoes from the Thames;
41. ۴۱I hear fierce French liberty songs;
42. ۴۲I hear of the Italian boat-sculler the musical recitative of old poems;
43. ۴۳I hear the Virginia plantation-chorus of negroes, of a harvest night, in the glare of
44. ۴۴ pine-knots;
45. ۴۵I hear the strong baritone of the ’long-shore-men of Mannahatta;
46. ۴۶I hear the stevedores unlading the cargoes, and singing;
47. ۴۷I hear the screams of the water-fowl of solitary north-west lakes;
48. ۴۸I hear the rustling pattering of locusts, as they strike the grain and grass with the
49. ۴۹ showers
50. ۵۰ of
51. ۵۱ their terrible clouds;
52. ۵۲I hear the Coptic refrain, toward sundown, pensively falling on the ... of the black
53. ۵۳ venerable
54. ۵۴ vast mother, the Nile;
55. ۵۵I hear the bugles of raft-tenders on the streams of Kanada;
56. ۵۶I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule;
57. ۵۷I hear the Arab muezzin, calling from the top of the mosque;
58. ۵۸I hear the Christian priests at the altars of their churches—I hear the responsive bass
59. ۵۹ and
60. ۶۰ soprano;
61. ۶۱I hear the wail of utter despair of the white-hair’d Irish grandparents, when they learn
62. ۶۲ the
63. ۶۳ death
64. ۶۴ of their grandson;
65. ۶۵I hear the cry of the Cossack, and the sailor’s voice, putting to sea at Okotsk;
66. ۶۶I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on—as the husky gangs pass on
67. ۶۷ by
68. ۶۸ twos
69. ۶۹ and threes, fasten’d together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains;
70. ۷۰I hear the entreaties of women tied up for punishment—I hear the sibilant whisk of thongs
71. ۷۱ through
72. ۷۲ the air;
73. ۷۳I hear the Hebrew reading his records and psalms;
74. ۷۴I hear the rhythmic myths of the Greeks, and the strong legends of the Romans;
75. ۷۵I hear the tale of the divine life and bloody death of the beautiful God—the Christ;
76. ۷۶I hear the Hindoo teaching his favorite pupil the loves, wars, adages, transmitted safely
77. ۷۷ to
78. ۷۸ this
79. ۷۹ day, from poets who wrote three thousand years ago.
80. ۸۰
81. ۸۱4
82. ۸۲What do you see, Walt Whitman?
83. ۸۳Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
84. ۸۴
85. ۸۵I see a great round wonder rolling through the air;
86. ۸۶I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, grave-yards, jails, factories, palaces, hovels, huts
87. ۸۷ of
88. ۸۸ barbarians, tents of nomads, upon the surface;
89. ۸۹I see the shaded part on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on
90. ۹۰ the
91. ۹۱ other side,
92. ۹۲I see the curious silent change of the light and shade,
93. ۹۳I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them, as my land is to me.
94. ۹۴
95. ۹۵I see plenteous waters;
96. ۹۶I see mountain peaks—I see the sierras of Andes and Alleghanies, where they range;
97. ۹۷I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts;
98. ۹۸I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi,
99. ۹۹I see the Rocky Mountains, and the Peak of Winds;
100. ۱۰۰I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps;
101. ۱۰۱I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians—and to the north the Dofrafields, and off at sea
102. ۱۰۲ Mount
103. ۱۰۳ Hecla;
104. ۱۰۴I see Vesuvius and Etna—I see the Anahuacs;
105. ۱۰۵I see the Mountains of the Moon, and the Snow Mountains, and the Red Mountains of
106. ۱۰۶ Madagascar;
107. ۱۰۷I see the Vermont hills, and the long string of Cordilleras;
108. ۱۰۸I see the vast deserts of Western America;
109. ۱۰۹I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts;
110. ۱۱۰I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs;
111. ۱۱۱I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones—the Atlantic and Pacific, the sea of
112. ۱۱۲ Mexico,
113. ۱۱۳ the
114. ۱۱۴ Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
115. ۱۱۵The Japan waters, those of Hindostan, the China Sea, and the Gulf of Guinea,
116. ۱۱۶The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the Bay of Biscay,
117. ۱۱۷The clear-sunn’d Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands,
118. ۱۱۸The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America,
119. ۱۱۹The White Sea, and the sea around Greenland.
120. ۱۲۰
121. ۱۲۱I behold the mariners of the world;
122. ۱۲۲Some are in storms—some in the night, with the watch on the look-out;
123. ۱۲۳Some drifting helplessly—some with contagious diseases.
124. ۱۲۴
125. ۱۲۵I behold the sail and steamships of the world, some in clusters in port, some on their
126. ۱۲۶ voyages;
127. ۱۲۷
128. ۱۲۸Some double the Cape of Storms—some Cape Verde,—others Cape Guardafui, Bon, or Bajadore;
129. ۱۲۹Others Dondra Head—others pass the Straits of Sunda—others Cape Lopatka—others Behring’s
130. ۱۳۰ Straits;
131. ۱۳۱Others Cape Horn—others sail the Gulf of Mexico, or along Cuba or Hayti—others Hudson’s
132. ۱۳۲ Bay or
133. ۱۳۳ Baffin’s Bay;
134. ۱۳۴Others pass the Straits of Dover—others enter the Wash—others the Firth of Solway—others
135. ۱۳۵ round
136. ۱۳۶ Cape Clear—others the Land’s End;
137. ۱۳۷Others traverse the Zuyder Zee, or the Scheld;
138. ۱۳۸Others add to the exits and entrances at Sandy Hook;
139. ۱۳۹Others to the comers and goers at Gibraltar, or the Dardanelles;
140. ۱۴۰Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs;
141. ۱۴۱Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena;
142. ۱۴۲Others the Niger or the Congo—others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia;
143. ۱۴۳Others wait at the wharves of Manhattan, steam’d up, ready to start;
144. ۱۴۴Wait, swift and swarthy, in the ports of Australia;
145. ۱۴۵Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux,
146. ۱۴۶ the
147. ۱۴۷ Hague, Copenhagen;
148. ۱۴۸Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama;
149. ۱۴۹Wait at their moorings at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans,
150. ۱۵۰ Galveston,
151. ۱۵۱ San
152. ۱۵۲ Francisco.
153. ۱۵۳
154. ۱۵۴5
155. ۱۵۵I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth;
156. ۱۵۶I see them welding State to State, city to city, through North America;
157. ۱۵۷I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe;
158. ۱۵۸I see them in Asia and in Africa.
159. ۱۵۹
160. ۱۶۰I see the electric telegraphs of the earth;
161. ۱۶۱I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths, losses, gains, passions, of my race.
162. ۱۶۲
163. ۱۶۳
164. ۱۶۴I see the long river-stripes of the earth;
165. ۱۶۵I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the Columbia flows;
166. ۱۶۶I see the Great River and the Falls of Niagara;
167. ۱۶۷I see the Amazon and the Paraguay;
168. ۱۶۸I see the four great rivers of China, the Amour, the Yellow River, the Yiang-tse, and the
169. ۱۶۹ Pearl;
170. ۱۷۰I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the
171. ۱۷۱ Guadalquiver
172. ۱۷۲ flow;
173. ۱۷۳I see the windings of the Volga, the Dnieper, the Oder;
174. ۱۷۴I see the Tuscan going down the Arno, and the Venetian along the Po;
175. ۱۷۵I see the Greek seaman sailing out of Egina bay.
176. ۱۷۶
177. ۱۷۷6
178. ۱۷۸I see the site of the old empire of Assyria, and that of Persia, and that of India;
179. ۱۷۹I see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.
180. ۱۸۰
181. ۱۸۱I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms;
182. ۱۸۲I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth—oracles, sacrificers, brahmins,
183. ۱۸۳ sabians, lamas, monks, muftis, exhorters;
184. ۱۸۴I see where druids walked the groves of Mona—I see the mistletoe and vervain;
185. ۱۸۵I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods—I see the old signifiers.
186. ۱۸۶
187. ۱۸۷I see Christ once more eating the bread of his last supper, in the midst of youths and old
188. ۱۸۸ persons;
189. ۱۸۹I see where the strong divine young man, the Hercules, toil’d faithfully and long, and
190. ۱۹۰ then
191. ۱۹۱ died;
192. ۱۹۲
193. ۱۹۳I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son,
194. ۱۹۴ the
195. ۱۹۵ full-limb’d Bacchus;
196. ۱۹۶I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head;
197. ۱۹۷I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, Do not weep for
198. ۱۹۸ me,
199. ۱۹۹This is not my true country, I have lived banish’d from my true country—I now go back
200. ۲۰۰ there,
201. ۲۰۱I return to the celestial sphere, where every one goes in his turn.
202. ۲۰۲
203. ۲۰۳7
204. ۲۰۴I see the battle-fields of the earth—grass grows upon them, and blossoms and corn;
205. ۲۰۵I see the tracks of ancient and modern expeditions.
206. ۲۰۶
207. ۲۰۷I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of
208. ۲۰۸ the
209. ۲۰۹ earth.
210. ۲۱۰
211. ۲۱۱I see the places of the sagas;
212. ۲۱۲I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts;
213. ۲۱۳I see granite boulders and cliffs—I see green meadows and lakes;
214. ۲۱۴I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors;
215. ۲۱۵I see them raised high with stones, by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men’s
216. ۲۱۶ spirits,
217. ۲۱۷ when they wearied of their quiet graves, might rise up through the mounds, and gaze on
218. ۲۱۸ the
219. ۲۱۹ tossing
220. ۲۲۰ billows, and be refresh’d by storms, immensity, liberty, action.
221. ۲۲۱I see the steppes of Asia;
222. ۲۲۲I see the tumuli of Mongolia—I see the tents of Kalmucks and Baskirs;
223. ۲۲۳I see the nomadic tribes, with herds of oxen and cows;
224. ۲۲۴I see the table-lands notch’d with ravines—I see the jungles and deserts;
225. ۲۲۵I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fat-tail’d sheep, the antelope, and the
226. ۲۲۶ burrowing wolf.
227. ۲۲۷
228. ۲۲۸I see the high-lands of Abyssinia;
229. ۲۲۹I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,
230. ۲۳۰And see fields of teff-wheat, and see the places of verdure and gold.
231. ۲۳۱
232. ۲۳۲I see the Brazilian vaquero;
233. ۲۳۳I see the Bolivian ascending Mount Sorata;
234. ۲۳۴I see the Wacho crossing the plains—I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso
235. ۲۳۵ on
236. ۲۳۶ his
237. ۲۳۷ arm;
238. ۲۳۸I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for their hides.
239. ۲۳۹
240. ۲۴۰8
241. ۲۴۱I see little and large sea-dots, some inhabited, some uninhabited;
242. ۲۴۲I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Paumanok, quite still;
243. ۲۴۳I see ten fishermen waiting—they discover now a thick school of mossbonkers—they drop the
244. ۲۴۴ join’d seine-ends in the water,
245. ۲۴۵The boats separate—they diverge and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach,
246. ۲۴۶ enclosing
247. ۲۴۷ the mossbonkers;
248. ۲۴۸The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
249. ۲۴۹Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats—others stand negligently ankle-deep in the
250. ۲۵۰ water,
251. ۲۵۱ pois’d on strong legs;
252. ۲۵۲The boats are partly drawn up—the water slaps against them;
253. ۲۵۳On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the water, lie the green-back’d spotted
254. ۲۵۴ mossbonkers.
255. ۲۵۵
256. ۲۵۶9
257. ۲۵۷I see the despondent red man in the west, lingering about the banks of Moingo, and about
258. ۲۵۸ Lake
259. ۲۵۹ Pepin;
260. ۲۶۰He has heard the quail and beheld the honey-bee, and sadly prepared to depart.
261. ۲۶۱
262. ۲۶۲I see the regions of snow and ice;
263. ۲۶۳I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn;
264. ۲۶۴I see the seal-seeker in his boat, poising his lance;
265. ۲۶۵I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge, drawn by dogs;
266. ۲۶۶I see the porpoise-hunters—I see the whale-crews of the South Pacific and the North
267. ۲۶۷ Atlantic;
268. ۲۶۸I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland—I mark the long winters, and
269. ۲۶۹ the
270. ۲۷۰ isolation.
271. ۲۷۱
272. ۲۷۲I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them;
273. ۲۷۳I am a real Parisian;
274. ۲۷۴I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople;
275. ۲۷۵I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne;
276. ۲۷۶I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick;
277. ۲۷۷I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart,
278. ۲۷۸ Turin,
279. ۲۷۹ Florence;
280. ۲۸۰I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw—or northward in Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian
281. ۲۸۱ Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland;
282. ۲۸۲I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
283. ۲۸۳
284. ۲۸۴10
285. ۲۸۵I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries;
286. ۲۸۶I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poison’d splint, the fetish, and the obi.
287. ۲۸۷
288. ۲۸۸I see African and Asiatic towns;
289. ۲۸۹I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia;
290. ۲۹۰I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Yedo;
291. ۲۹۱I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashanteeman in their huts;
292. ۲۹۲I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo;
293. ۲۹۳I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva, and those of Herat;
294. ۲۹۴I see Teheran—I see Muscat and Medina, and the intervening sands—I see the caravans
295. ۲۹۵ toiling
296. ۲۹۶ onward;
297. ۲۹۷I see Egypt and the Egyptians—I see the pyramids and obelisks;
298. ۲۹۸I look on chisel’d histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on
299. ۲۹۹ granite-blocks;
300. ۳۰۰I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies, embalm’d, swathed in linen cloth, lying
301. ۳۰۱ there
302. ۳۰۲ many centuries;
303. ۳۰۳I look on the fall’n Theban, the large-ball’d eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands
304. ۳۰۴ folded
305. ۳۰۵ across the ....
306. ۳۰۶
307. ۳۰۷I see the menials of the earth, laboring;
308. ۳۰۸I see the prisoners in the prisons;
309. ۳۰۹I see the defective human bodies of the earth;
310. ۳۱۰I see the blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics;
311. ۳۱۱I see the pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers of the earth;
312. ۳۱۲I see the helpless infants, and the helpless old men and women.
313. ۳۱۳
314. ۳۱۴I see male and female everywhere;
315. ۳۱۵I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs;
316. ۳۱۶I see the constructiveness of my race;
317. ۳۱۷I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race;
318. ۳۱۸I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations—I go among them—I mix indiscriminately,
319. ۳۱۹And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
320. ۳۲۰
321. ۳۲۱11
322. ۳۲۲You, whoever you are!
323. ۳۲۳You daughter or son of England!
324. ۳۲۴You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!
325. ۳۲۵You dim-descended, black, divine-soul’d African, large, fine-headed, nobly-form’d,
326. ۳۲۶ superbly
327. ۳۲۷ destin’d, on equal terms with me!
328. ۳۲۸You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
329. ۳۲۹You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!
330. ۳۳۰You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!
331. ۳۳۱You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands!
332. ۳۳۲You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria!
333. ۳۳۳You neighbor of the Danube!
334. ۳۳۴You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!
335. ۳۳۵You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian! Bulgarian!
336. ۳۳۶You citizen of Prague! Roman! Neapolitan! Greek!
337. ۳۳۷You lithe matador in the arena at Seville!
338. ۳۳۸You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus!
339. ۳۳۹You Bokh horse-herd, watching your mares and stallions feeding!
340. ۳۴۰You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the saddle, shooting arrows to the mark!
341. ۳۴۱You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!
342. ۳۴۲You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks!
343. ۳۴۳You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk, to stand once on Syrian ground!
344. ۳۴۴You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah!
345. ۳۴۵You thoughtful Armenian, pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the
346. ۳۴۶ ruins
347. ۳۴۷ of
348. ۳۴۸ Nineveh! you ascending Mount Ararat!
349. ۳۴۹You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca!
350. ۳۵۰You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb, ruling your families and tribes!
351. ۳۵۱
352. ۳۵۲You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or Lake Tiberias!
353. ۳۵۳You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!
354. ۳۵۴You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo!
355. ۳۵۵All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!
356. ۳۵۶All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
357. ۳۵۷And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me!
358. ۳۵۸And you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not, but include just the same!
359. ۳۵۹Health to you! Good will to you all—from me and America sent.
360. ۳۶۰
361. ۳۶۱Each of us inevitable;
362. ۳۶۲Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth;
363. ۳۶۳Each of us allow’d the eternal purports of the earth;
364. ۳۶۴Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
365. ۳۶۵
366. ۳۶۶12
367. ۳۶۷You Hottentot with clicking palate! You woolly-hair’d hordes!
368. ۳۶۸You own’d persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!
369. ۳۶۹You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive countenances of brutes!
370. ۳۷۰I dare not refuse you—the scope of the world, and of time and space, are upon me.
371. ۳۷۱
372. ۳۷۲You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon, for all your glimmering
373. ۳۷۳ language
374. ۳۷۴ and
375. ۳۷۵ spirituality!
376. ۳۷۶You low expiring aborigines of the hills of Utah, Oregon, California!
377. ۳۷۷You dwarf’d Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!
378. ۳۷۸You Austral negro, ..., red, sooty, with protrusive lip, grovelling, seeking your food!
379. ۳۷۹
380. ۳۸۰You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese!
381. ۳۸۱You haggard, uncouth, untutor’d, Bedowee!
382. ۳۸۲You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo!
383. ۳۸۳You bather bathing in the Ganges!
384. ۳۸۴You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Fejee-man!
385. ۳۸۵You peon of Mexico! you slave of Carolina, Texas, Tennessee!
386. ۳۸۶I do not prefer others so very much before you either;
387. ۳۸۷I do not say one word against you, away back there, where you stand;
388. ۳۸۸(You will come forward in due time to my side.)
389. ۳۸۹
390. ۳۹۰My spirit has pass’d in compassion and determination around the whole earth;
391. ۳۹۱I have look’d for equals and lovers, and found them ready for me in all lands;
392. ۳۹۲I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them.
393. ۳۹۳
394. ۳۹۴13
395. ۳۹۵O vapors! I think I have risen with you, and moved away to distant continents, and fallen
396. ۳۹۶ down
397. ۳۹۷ there, for reasons;
398. ۳۹۸I think I have blown with you, O winds;
399. ۳۹۹O waters, I have finger’d every shore with you.
400. ۴۰۰
401. ۴۰۱I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through;
402. ۴۰۲I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas, and on the high embedded rocks, to cry
403. ۴۰۳ thence.
404. ۴۰۴
405. ۴۰۵Salut au monde!
406. ۴۰۶What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I penetrate those cities myself;
407. ۴۰۷All islands to which birds wing their way, I wing my way myself.
408. ۴۰۸
409. ۴۰۹Toward all,
410. ۴۱۰I raise high the perpendicular hand—I make the signal,
411. ۴۱۱To remain after me in sight forever,
412. ۴۱۲For all the haunts and homes of men.