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OVER the western sea hither from Niphon come	A
Courteous the swart cheek'd two sworded envoys	B
Leaning back in their open barouches bare headed impassive	C
Ride to day through Manhattan	D
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Libertad	E
I do not know whether others behold what I behold	E
In the procession along with the nobles of Asia the errand	E
bearers	F
Bringing up the rear hovering above around or in the ranks	G
marching	H
But I will sing you a song of what I behold Libertad	E
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When million footed Manhattan unpent descends to her pavements	I
When the thunder cracking guns arouse me with the proud roar I love	J
When the round mouth'd guns out of the smoke and smell I love spit	E
their salutes	K
When the fire flashing guns have fully alerted me when heaven clouds	L
canopy my city with a delicate thin haze	M
When gorgeous the countless straight stems the forests at the	N
wharves thicken with colors	F
When every ship richly drest carries her flag at the peak	O
When pennants trail and street festoons hang from the windows	P
When Broadway is entirely given up to foot passengers and foot	E
standers when the mass is densest	E
When the fa ades of the houses are alive with people when eyes gaze	M
riveted tens of thousands at a time	Q
When the guests from the islands advance when the pageant moves	R
forward visible	S
When the summons is made when the answer that waited thousands of	J
years answers	F
I too arising answering descend to the pavements merge with the	N
crowd and gaze with them	T
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Superb faced Manhattan	D
Comrade Americanos to us then at last the Orient comes	U
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To us my city	E
Where our tall topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite	E
sides to walk in the space between	V
To day our Antipodes comes	U
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The Originatress comes	U
The nest of languages the bequeather of poems the race of eld	E
Florid with blood pensive rapt with musings hot with passion	D
Sultry with perfume with ample and flowing garments	I
With sunburnt visage with intense soul and glittering eyes	W
The race of Brahma comes	U
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See my cantabile these and more are flashing to us from the	N
procession	D
As it moves changing a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing	H
before us	X
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For not the envoys nor the tann'd Japanee from his island only	E
Lithe and silent the Hindoo appears the Asiatic continent itself	Y
appears the Past the dead	E
The murky night morning of wonder and fable inscrutable	S
The envelop'd mysteries the old and unknown hive bees	Z
The North the sweltering South eastern Assyria the Hebrews the	N
Ancient of Ancients	I
Vast desolated cities the gliding Present all of these and more	A2
are in the pageant procession	D
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Geography the world is in it	E
The Great Sea the brood of islands Polynesia the coast beyond	E
The coast you henceforth are facing you Libertad from your	A2
Western golden shores	B2
The countries there with their populations the millions en masse	C2
are curiously here	D2
The swarming market places the temples with idols ranged along the	N
sides or at the end bonze brahmin and lama	N
The mandarin farmer merchant mechanic and fisherman	E2
The singing girl and the dancing girl the ecstatic person the	N
secluded Emperors	F
Confucius himself the great poets and heroes the warriors the	N
castes all	F2
Trooping up crowding from all directions from the Altay mountains	G2
From Thibet from the four winding and far flowing rivers of	J
China	N
From the Southern peninsulas and the demi continental islands from	A
Malaysia	N
These and whatever belongs to them palpable show forth to me and	E
are seiz'd by me	E
And I am seiz'd by them and friendlily held by them	T
Till as here them all I chant Libertad for themselves and for	A2
you	H2
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For I too raising my voice join the ranks of this pageant	E
I am the chanter I chant aloud over the pageant	E
I chant the world on my Western Sea	E
I chant copious the islands beyond thick as stars in the sky	I2
I chant the new empire grander than any before As in a vision it	E
comes to me	E
I chant America the Mistress I chant a greater supremacy	E
I chant projected a thousand blooming cities yet in time on those	P
groups of sea islands	J2
I chant my sail ships and steam ships threading the archipelagoes	J2
I chant my stars and stripes fluttering in the wind	E
I chant commerce opening the sleep of ages having done its work	K2
races reborn refresh'd	E
Lives works resumed The object I know not but the old the	N
Asiatic renew'd as it must be	E
Commencing from this day surrounded by the world	E
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And you Libertad of the world	E
You shall sit in the middle well pois'd thousands of years	J2
As to day from one side the nobles of Asia come to you	H2
As to morrow from the other side the Queen of England sends her	L2
eldest son to you	H2
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The sign is reversing the orb is enclosed	E
The ring is circled the journey is done	D
The box lid is but perceptibly open'd nevertheless the perfume pours	J2
copiously out of the whole box	J2
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Young Libertad	E
With the venerable Asia the all mother	L2
Be considerate with her now and ever hot Libertad for you are all	F2
Bend your proud neck to the long off mother now sending messages	J2
over the archipelagoes to you	H2
Bend your proud neck low for once young Libertad	E
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Were the children straying westward so long so wide the tramping	H
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so	J2
long	M2
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way all the while	N2
unknown for you for reasons	J2
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They are justified they are accomplish'd they shall now be turn'd	E
the other way also to travel toward you thence	J2
They shall now also march obediently eastward for your sake	O2
Libertad	E

Walt Whitman

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