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AFTER all not to create only or found only	A
But to bring perhaps from afar what is already founded	B
To give it our own identity average limitless free	A
To fill the gross the torpid bulk with vital religious fire	C
Not to repel or destroy so much as accept fuse rehabilitate	D
To obey as well as command to follow more than to lead	E
These also are the lessons of our New World	F
While how little the New after all how much the Old Old World	F
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Long long long has the grass been growing	G
Long and long has the rain been falling	G
Long has the globe been rolling round	H
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Come Muse migrate from Greece and Ionia	I
Cross out please those immensely overpaid accounts	J
That matter of Troy and Achilles' wrath and Eneas' Odysseus'	J
wanderings	J
Placard Removed and To Let on the rocks of your snowy Parnassus	J
Repeat at Jerusalem place the notice high on Jaffa's gate and on	I
Mount Moriah	C
The same on the walls of your Gothic European Cathedrals and German	I
French and Spanish Castles	J
For know a better fresher busier sphere a wide untried domain	I
awaits demands you	K
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Responsive to our summons	J
Or rather to her long nurs'd inclination	I
Join'd with an irresistible natural gravitation	I
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She comes this famous Female as was indeed to be expected	B
For who so ever youthful 'cute and handsome would wish to stay in	I
mansions such as those	J
When offer'd quarters with all the modern improvements	J
With all the fun that 's going and all the best society	A
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She comes I hear the rustling of her gown	I
I scent the odor of her breath's delicious fragrance	J
I mark her step divine her curious eyes a turning rolling	G
Upon this very scene	I
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The Dame of Dames can I believe then	I
Those ancient temples classic and castles strong and feudalistic	L
could none of them restrain her	C
Nor shades of Virgil and Dante nor myriad memories poems old	M
associations magnetize and hold on to her	C
But that she 's left them all and here	C
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Yes if you will allow me to say so	J
I my friends if you do not can plainly see Her	C
The same Undying Soul of Earth's activity's beauty's heroism's	J
Expression	I
Out from her evolutions hither come submerged the strata of her	C
former themes	J
Hidden and cover'd by to day's foundation of to day's	J
Ended deceas'd through time her voice by Castaly's fountain	I
Silent through time the broken lipp'd Sphynx in Egypt silent those	J
century baffling tombs	J
Closed for aye the epics of Asia's Europe's helmeted warriors	J
Calliope's call for ever closed Clio Melpomene Thalia closed and	N
dead	E
Seal'd the stately rhythmus of Una and Oriana ended the quest of the	O
Holy Graal	A
Jerusalem a handful of ashes blown by the wind extinct	P
The Crusaders' streams of shadowy midnight troops sped with the	O
sunrise	J
Amadis Tancred utterly gone Charlemagne Roland Oliver gone	I
Palmerin ogre departed vanish'd the turrets that Usk reflected	B
Arthur vanish'd with all his knights Merlin and Lancelot and	N
Galahad all gone dissolv'd utterly like an exhalation	I
Pass'd pass'd for us for ever pass'd that once so mighty World	F
now void inanimate phantom World	F
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Embroider'd dazzling World with all its gorgeous legends myths	J
Its kings and barons proud its priests and warlike lords and	N
courtly dames	J
Pass'd to its charnel vault laid on the shelf coffin'd with Crown	I
and Armor on	I
Blazon'd with Shakspeare's purple page	Q
And dirged by Tennyson's sweet sad rhyme	R
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I say I see my friends if you do not the Animus of all that World	F
Escaped bequeath'd vital fugacious as ever leaving those dead	E
remains and now this spot approaching filling	G
And I can hear what maybe you do not a terrible aesthetical	A
commotion	I
With howling desperate gulp of flower and bower	C
With Sonnet to Matilda's Eyebrow quite quite frantic	L
With gushing sentimental reading circles turn'd to ice or stone	I
With many a squeak in metre choice from Boston New York	S
Philadelphia London	I
As she the illustrious Emigr having it is true in her day	T
although the same changed journey'd considerable	A
Making directly for this rendezvous vigorously clearing a path for	C
herself striding through the confusion	I
By thud of machinery and shrill steam whistle undismay'd	T
Bluff'd not a bit by drain pipe gasometers artificial fertilizers	J
Smiling and pleased with palpable intent to stay	T
She 's here install'd amid the kitchen ware	C
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But hold don't I forget my manners	J
To introduce the Stranger what else indeed have I come for to	T
thee Columbia	O
In Liberty's name welcome Immortal clasp hands	J
And ever henceforth Sisters dear be both	U
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Fear not O Muse truly new ways and days receive surround you	T
I candidly confess a queer queer race of novel fashion	I
And yet the same old human race the same within without	T
Faces and hearts the same feelings the same yearnings the same	V
The same old love beauty and use the same	V
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We do not blame thee Elder World nor separate ourselves from thee	A
Would the Son separate himself from the Father	C
Looking back on thee seeing thee to thy duties grandeurs through	T
past ages bending building	G
We build to ours to day	T
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Mightier than Egypt's tombs	J
Fairer than Grecia's Roma's temples	J
Prouder than Milan's statued spired Cathedral	A
More picturesque than Rhenish castle keeps	J
We plan even now to raise beyond them all	A
Thy great Cathedral sacred Industry no tomb	W
A Keep for life for practical Invention	I
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As in a waking vision	I
E'en while I chant I see it rise I scan and prophesy outside and	T
in	I
Its manifold ensemble	A
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Around a Palace	J
Loftier fairer ampler than any yet	T
Earth's modern Wonder History's Seven outstripping	G
High rising tier on tier with glass and iron fa ades	J
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Gladdening the sun and sky enhued in cheerfulest hues	J
Bronze lilac robin's egg marine and crimson	I
Over whose golden roof shall flaunt beneath thy banner Freedom	X
The banners of The States the flags of every land	T
A brood of lofty fair but lesser Palaces shall cluster	C
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Somewhere within the walls of all	A
Shall all that forwards perfect human life be started	T
Tried taught advanced visibly exhibited	T
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Here shall you trace in flowing operation	I
In every state of practical busy movement	T
The rills of Civilization	I
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Materials here under your eye shall change their shape as if by	Y
magic	L
The cotton shall be pick'd almost in the very field	T
Shall be dried clean'd ginn'd baled spun into thread and cloth	Z
before you	T
You shall see hands at work at all the old processes and all the new	T
ones	J
You shall see the various grains and how flour is made and then	I
bread baked by the bakers	J
You shall see the crude ores of California and Nevada passing on and	T
on till they become bullion	I
You shall watch how the printer sets type and learn what a composing	G
stick is	J
You shall mark in amazement the Hoe press whirling its cylinders	J
shedding the printed leaves steady and fast	T
The photograph model watch pin nail shall be created before you	T
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In large calm halls a stately Museum shall teac	A2

Walt Whitman

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