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SINGING my days	A
Singing the great achievements of the present	B
Singing the strong light works of engineers	C
Our modern wonders the antique ponderous Seven outvied	B
In the Old World the east the Suez canal	D
The New by its mighty railroad spann'd	B
The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires	E
I sound to commence the cry with thee O soul	F
The Past the Past the Past	B
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The Past the dark unfathom'd retrospect	B
The teeming gulf the sleepers and the shadows	G
The past the infinite greatness of the past	B
For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past	B
As a projectile form'd impell'd passing a certain line still	H
keeps on	I
So the present utterly form'd impell'd by the past	B
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Passage O soul to India	B
Eclaircise the myths Asiatic the primitive fables	J
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Not you alone proud truths of the world	B
Nor you alone ye facts of modern science	K
But myths and fables of eld Asia's Africa's fables	J
The far darting beams of the spirit the unloos'd dreams	L
The deep diving bibles and legends	M
The daring plots of the poets the elder religions	N
O you temples fairer than lilies pour'd over by the rising sun	O
O you fables spurning the known eluding the hold of the known	P
mounting to heaven	O
You lofty and dazzling towers pinnacled red as roses burnish'd	B
with gold	B
Towers of fables immortal fashion'd from mortal dreams	L
You too I welcome and fully the same as the rest	B
You too with joy I sing	Q
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Passage to India	B
Lo soul seest thou not God's purpose from the first	B
The earth to be spann'd connected by net work	R
The people to become brothers and sisters	E
The races neighbors to marry and be given in marriage	S
The oceans to be cross'd the distant brought near	T
The lands to be welded together	U
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A worship new I sing	Q
You captains voyagers explorers yours	V
You engineers you architects machinists your	W
You not for trade or transportation only	X
But in God's name and for thy sake O soul	F
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Passage to India	B
Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain	Y
I see in one the Suez canal initiated open'd	B
I see the procession of steamships the Empress Eugenie's leading the	B
van	Z
I mark from on deck the strange landscape the pure sky the level	A2
sand in the distance	K
I pass swiftly the picturesque groups the workmen gather'd	B
The gigantic dredging machines	B2
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In one again different yet thine all thine O soul the same	C2
I see over my own continent the Pacific Railroad surmounting every	X
barrier	U
I see continual trains of cars winding along the Platte carrying	Q
freight and passengers	E
I hear the locomotives rushing and roaring and the shrill steam	D2
whistle	A2
I hear the echoes reverberate through the grandest scenery in the	B
world	B
I cross the Laramie plains I note the rocks in grotesque shapes the	B
buttes	E
I see the plentiful larkspur and wild onions the barren colorless	E
sage deserts	E
I see in glimpses afar or towering immediately above me the great	B
mountains I see the Wind River and the Wahsatch mountains	E
I see the Monument mountain and the Eagle's Nest I pass the	B
Promontory I ascend the Nevadas	E
I scan the noble Elk mountain and wind around its base	E
I see the Humboldt range I thread the valley and cross the river	U
I see the clear waters of Lake Tahoe I see forests of majestic	E2
pines	E
Or crossing the great desert the alkaline plains I behold	B
enchanting mirages of waters and meadows	E
Marking through these and after all in duplicate slender lines	E
Bridging the three or four thousand miles of land travel	A2
Tying the Eastern to the Western sea	E
The road between Europe and Asia	B
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Ah Genoese thy dream thy dream	D2
Centuries after thou art laid in thy grave	F2
The shore thou foundest verifies thy dream	D2
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Passage to India	B
Struggles of many a captain tales of many a sailor dead	B
Over my mood stealing and spreading they come	G2
Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach'd sky	H2
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Along all history down the slopes	E
As a rivulet running sinking now and now again to the surface	E
rising	Q
A ceaseless thought a varied train Lo soul to thee thy sight	B
they rise	E
The plans the voyages again the expeditions	E
Again Vasco de Gama sails forth	I2
Again the knowledge gain'd the mariner's compass	E
Lands found and nations born thou born America a hemisphere	T
unborn	J2
For purpose vast man's long probation fill'd	B
Thou rondure of the world at last accomplish'd	B
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O vast Rondure swimming in space	E
Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty	E
Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness	E
Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars	E
above	K2
Below the manifold grass and waters animals mountains trees	E
With inscrutable purpose some hidden prophetic intention	O
Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee	E
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Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating	Q
Adam and Eve appear then their myriad progeny after them	L2
Wandering yearning curious with restless explorations	E
With questionings baffled formless feverish with never happy	E
hearts	E
With that sad incessant refrain Wherefore unsatisfied Soul and	B
Whither O mocking Life	M2
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Ah who shall soothe these feverish children	O
Who justify these restless explorations	E
Who speak the secret of impassive Earth	N2
Who bind it to us What is this separate Nature so unnatural	A2
What is this Earth to our affections unloving earth without a	B
throb to answer ours	E
Cold earth the place of graves	E
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Yet soul be sure the first intent remains and shall be carried	B
out	B
Perhaps even now the time has arrived	B
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After the seas are all cross'd as they seem already cross'd	B
After the great captains and engineers have accomplish'd their work	R
After the noble inventors after the scientists the chemist the	B
geologist ethnologist	B
Finally shall come the Poet worthy that name	C2
The true Son of God shall come singing his songs	E
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Then not your deeds only O voyagers O scientists and inventors	E
shall be justified	B
All these hearts as of fretted children shall be sooth'd	B
All affection shall be fully responded to the secret shall be told	B
All these separations and gaps shall be taken up and hook'd and	B
link'd together	U
The whole Earth this cold impassive voiceless Earth shall be	E
completely justified	B
Trinitas divine shall be gloriously accomplish'd and compacted by the	B
the Son of God the poet	B
He shall indeed pass the straits and conquer the mountains	E
He shall double the Cape of Good Hope to some purpose	E
Nature and Man shall be disjoin'd and diffused no more	W
The true Son of God shall absolutely fuse them	L2
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Year at whose open'd wide flung door I sing	Q
Year of the purpose accomplish'd	B
Year of the marriage of continents climates and oceans	E
No mere Doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic	E2
I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe gi	S

Walt Whitman

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