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A CALIFORNIA song	A
A prophecy and indirection a thought impalpable to breathe as air	B
A chorus of dryads fading departing or hamadryads departing	C
A murmuring fateful giant voice out of the earth and sky	D
Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense	E
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Farewell my brethren	F
Farewell O earth and sky farewell ye neighboring waters	G
My time has ended my term has come	H
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Along the northern coast	I
Just back from the rock bound shore and the caves	J
In the saline air from the sea in the Mendocino country	K
With the surge for bass and accompaniment low and hoarse	L
With crackling blows of axes sounding musically driven by strong	A
arms	M
Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes there in the Redwood	N
forest dense	E
I heard the mighty tree its death chant chanting	C
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The choppers heard not the camp shanties echoed not	O
The quick ear'd teamsters and chain and jack screw men heard not	O
As the wood spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years to	P
join the refrain	Q
But in my soul I plainly heard	R
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Murmuring out of its myriad leaves	S
Down from its lofty top rising two hundred feet high	D
Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs out of its foot thick bark	T
That chant of the seasons and time chant not of the past only but	U
the future	V
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You untold life of me	K
And all you venerable and innocent joys	W
Perennial hardy life of me with joys 'mid rain and many a summer	V
sun	F
And the white snows and night and the wild winds	X
O the great patient rugged joys my soul's strong joys unreck'd by	D
man	Y
For know I bear the soul befitting me I too have consciousness	Z
identity	K
And all the rocks and mountains have and all the earth	A2
Joys of the life befitting me and brothers mine	B2
Our time our term has come	H
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Nor yield we mournfully majestic brothers	G
We who have grandly fill'd our time	C2
With Nature's calm content and tacit huge delight	D2
We welcome what we wrought for through the past	E2
And leave the field for them	F2
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For them predicted long	A
For a superber Race they too to grandly fill their time	C2
For them we abdicate in them ourselves ye forest kings	G2
In them these skies and airs these mountain peaks Shasta Nevadas	G2
These huge precipitous cliffs this amplitude these valleys grand	H2
Yosemite	K
To be in them absorb'd assimilated	I2
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Then to a loftier strain	Q
Still prouder more ecstatic rose the chant	J2
As if the heirs the Deities of the West	K2
Joining with master tongue bore part	L2
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Not wan from Asia's fetishes	G2
Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughter house	G2
Area of murder plots of thrones with scent left yet of wars and	M2
scaffolds every where	B
But come from Nature's long and harmless throes peacefully builded	M2
thence	G2
These virgin lands Lands of the Western Shore	N2
To the new Culminating Man to you the Empire New	P
You promis'd long we pledge we dedicate	M2
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You occult deep volitions	G2
You average Spiritual Manhood purpose of all pois'd on yourself	O2
giving not taking law	P2
You Womanhood divine mistress and source of all whence life and	M2
love and aught that comes from life and love	Q2
You unseen Moral Essence of all the vast materials of America age	R2
upon age working in Death the same as Life	S2
You that sometimes known oftener unknown really shape and mould	M2
the New World adjusting it to Time and Space	G2
You hidden National Will lying in your abysms conceal'd but ever	V
alert	M2
You past and present purposes tenaciously pursued may be	K
unconscious of yourselves	G2
Unswerv'd by all the passing errors perturbations of the surface	G2
You vital universal deathless germs beneath all creeds arts	G2
statutes literatures	G2
Here build your homes for good establish here These areas entire	V
Lands of the Western Shore	N2
We pledge we dedicate to you	P
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For man of you your characteristic Race	G2
Here may be hardy sweet gigantic grow here tower proportionate to	P
Nature	V
Here climb the vast pure spaces unconfined uncheck'd by wall or	N2
roof	T2
Here laugh with storm or sun here joy here patiently inure	U2
Here heed himself unfold himself not others' formulas heed here	V2
fill his time	C2
To duly fall to aid unreck'd at last	M2
To disappear to serve	W2
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Thus on the northern coast	M2
In the echo of teamsters' calls and the clinking chains and the	X2
music of choppers' axes	G2
The falling trunk and limbs the crash the muffled shriek the	X2
groan	Y2
Such words combined from the Redwood tree as of wood spirits' voices	G2
ecstatic ancient and rustling	C
The century lasting unseen dryads singing withdrawing	C
All their recesses of forests and mountains leaving	C
From the Cascade range to the Wasatch or Idaho far or Utah	P2
To the deities of the Modern henceforth yielding	C
The chorus and indications the vistas of coming humanity the	X2
settlements features all	Z2
In the Mendocino woods I caught	M2
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The flashing and golden pageant of California	X2
The sudden and gorgeous drama the sunny and ample lands	G2
The long and varied stretch from Puget Sound to Colorado south	A3
Lands bathed in sweeter rarer healthier air valleys and mountain	F
cliffs	G2
The fields of Nature long prepared and fallow the silent cyclic	B3
chemistry	K
The slow and steady ages plodding the unoccupied surface ripening	C
the rich ores forming beneath	C3
At last the New arriving assuming taking possession	F
A swarming and busy race settling and organizing every where	B
Ships coming in from the whole round world and going out to the	X2
whole world	M2
To India and China and Australia and the thousand island paradises	G2
of the Pacific	B3
Populous cities the latest inventions the steamers on the rivers	G2
the railroads with many a thrifty farm with machinery	K
And wool and wheat and the grape and diggings of yellow gold	M2
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But more in you than these Lands of the Western Shore	N2
These but the means the implements the standing ground	M2
I see in you certain to come the promise of thousands of years	G2
till now deferr'd	M2
Promis'd to be fulfill'd our common kind the Race	G2
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The New Society at last proportionate to Nature	V
In Man of you more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees	G2
imperial	D3
In Woman more far more than all your gold or vines or even vital	D3
air	B
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Fresh come to a New World indeed yet long prepared	M2
I see the Genius of the Modern child of the Real and Ideal	E3
Clearing the ground for broad humanity the true America heir of the	X2
past so grand	M2
To build a grander future	V

Walt Whitman

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