Out on the lake, that expands before them, others are spearing
salmon;
The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water,
Bearing a Torch a-blaze at the prow.
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(No more credulity’s race, abiding-temper’d race;)Race henceforth owning no law but the law of itself;Race of passion and the storm.
YOU who celebrate bygones!
that has exhibited itself;Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates,rulers and priests;I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself,in his own rights,Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (thegreat pride of man in himself;)Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be,I…
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As toilsome I wander’d Virginia’s woods,
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FAST-ANCHOR’D, eternal, O love! O woman I love!
–Then separate, as disembodied, or another born,Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation;I ascend–I float in the regions of your love, O man,O sharer of my roving life.