not learn’d the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality;
You have not seen that only such as they are for These States,
And that what is less than they, must sooner or later lift off from
These States.
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NOW finale to the shore!
Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;)Often enough hast thou adventur’d o’er the seas,Cautiously cruising, studying the charts,Duly again to port, and hawser’s tie, returning:–But now obey, thy cherish’d, secret wish,Embrace thy friends–leave all in order;To port, and hawser’s tie, no more returning,Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor! 10
IN paths untrodden,
Escaped from the life that exhibits itself,From all the standards hitherto publish’d–from the pleasures,profits, eruditions, conformities,Which too long I was offering to feed my soul;Clear to me, now, standards not yet publish’d–clear to me that mySoul,That the Soul of the man I speak for, feeds, rejoices most incomrades;Here, by myself, away from the clank of…
O HYMEN! O hymenee!
O why sting me for a swift moment only?Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?Is it because, if you continued beyond the swift moment, you wouldsoon certainly kill me?
LONG, too long, O land,
prosperity only;But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish–advancing,grappling with direst fate, and recoiling not;And now to conceive, and show to the world, what your childrenen-masse really are;(For who except myself has yet conceiv’d what your children en-massereally are?)
OF him I love day and night, I dream’d I heard he was dead;
in that place;And I dream’d I wander’d, searching among burial-places, to find him;And I found that every place was a burial-place;The houses full of life were equally full of death, (this house isnow;)The streets, the shipping, the places of amusement, the Chicago,Boston, Philadelphia, the Mannahatta, were as full of the deadas of the living,And fuller,…
GIVE me your hand, old Revolutionary;
Up the path you have follow’d me well, spite of your hundred andextra years;You can walk, old man, though your eyes are almost done;Your faculties serve you, and presently I must have them serve me.Rest, while I tell what the crowd around us means;On the plain below, recruits are drilling and exercising;There is the camp–one…