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STARTING from fish shape Paumanok where I was born	A
Well begotten and rais'd by a perfect mother	B
After roaming many lands lover of populous pavements	C
Dweller in Mannahatta my city or on	D
southern savannas	E
Or a soldier camp'd or carrying my knapsack and gun or a miner in	F
California	G
Or rude in my home in Dakota's woods my diet meat my drink from the	G
spring	H
Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep recess	I
Far from the clank of crowds intervals passing rapt and happy	J
Aware of the fresh free giver the flowing Missouri aware of mighty	J
Niagara	G
Aware of the buffalo herds grazing the plains the hirsute and	K
strong breasted bull	L
Of earth rocks Fifth month flowers experienced stars rain snow	M
my amaze	N
Having studied the mocking bird's tones and the mountainhawk's	N
And heard at dusk the unrival'd one the hermit thrush from the	G
swamp cedars	N
Solitary singing in the West I strike up for a New World	O
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Victory union faith identity time	P
The indissoluble compacts riches mystery	J
Eternal progress the kosmos and the modern reports	N
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This then is life	Q
Here is what has come to the surface after so many throes and	K
convulsions	N
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How curious how real	R
Underfoot the divine soil overhead the sun	S
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See revolving the globe	T
The ancestor continents away group'd together	B
The present and future continents north and south with the isthmus	N
between	U
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See vast trackless spaces	N
As in a dream they change they swiftly fill	V
Countless masses debouch upon them	W
They are now cover'd with the foremost people arts institutions	N
known	X
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See projected through time	P
For me an audience interminable	Y
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With firm and regular step they wend they never stop	Z
Successions of men Americanos a hundred millions	N
One generation playing its part and passing on	D
Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn	A2
With faces turn'd sideways or backward towards me to listen	S
With eyes retrospective towards me	J
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Americanos conquerors marches humanitarian	S
Foremost century marches Libertad masses	N
For you a programme of chants	N
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Chants of the prairies	N
Chants of the long running Mississippi and down to the Mexican sea	J
Chants of Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota	G
Chants going forth from the centre from Kansas and thence equi	H
distant	B2
Shooting in pulses of fire ceaseless to vivify all	C2
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In the Year of The States	N
My tongue every atom of my blood form'd from this soil this air	D2
Born here of parents born here from parents the same and their	D2
parents the same	E2
I now thirty six years old in perfect health begin	F
Hoping to cease not till death	F2
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Creeds and schools in abeyance	N
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are but never	B
forgotten	S
I harbor for good or bad I permit to speak at every hazard	G2
Nature now without check with original energy	J
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Take my leaves America take them South and take them North	H2
Make welcome for them everywhere for they are your own offspring	H
Surround them East and West for they would surround you	I2
And you precedents connect lovingly with them for they connect	J2
lovingly with you	I2
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I conn'd old times	N
I sat studying at the feet of the great masters	N
Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study	J
me	J
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In the name of These States shall I scorn the antique	H
Why These are the children of the antique to justify it	K2
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Dead poets philosophs priests	N
Martyrs artists inventors governments long since	N
Language shapers on other shores	N
Nations once powerful now reduced withdrawn or desolate	L2
I dare not proceed till I respectfully credit what you have left	M2
wafted hither	B
I have perused it own it is admirable	Y
moving awhile among it	K2
Think nothing can ever be greater nothing can ever deserve more than	N2
it deserves	N
Regarding it all intently a long while then dismissing it	K2
I stand in my place with my own day here	O2
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Here lands female and male	P2
Here the heir ship and heiress ship of the world here the flame of	Q2
materials	N
Here Spirituality the translatress the openly avow'd	R2
The ever tending the finale of visible forms	N
The satisfier after due long waiting now advancing	H
Yes here comes my mistress the Soul	S2
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The SOUL	S2
Forever and forever longer than soil is brown and solid longer than	N2
water ebbs and flows	N
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I will make the poems of materials for I think they are to be the	G
most spiritual poems	N
And I will make the poems of my body and of mortality	J
For I think I shall then supply myself with the poems of my Soul and	K
of immortality	J
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I will make a song for These States that no one State may under any	J
circumstances be subjected to another State	T2
And I will make a song that there shall be comity by day and by night	U2
between all The States and between any two of them	W
And I will make a song for the ears of the President full of weapons	N
with menacing points	N
And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces	N
And a song make I of the One form'd out of all	C2
The fang'd and glittering One whose head is over all	C2
Resolute warlike One including and over all	C2
However high the head of any else that head is over all	C2
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I will acknowledge contemporary lands	N
I will trail the whole geography of the globe and salute courteously	C2
every city large and small	C2
And employments I will put in my poems that with you is heroism	V2
upon land and sea	J
And I will report all heroism from an American point of view	I2
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I will sing the song of companionship	W2
I will show what alone must finally compact These	N
I believe These are to found their own ideal of manly love	Q2
indicating it in me	J
I will therefore let flame from me the burning fires that were	B
threatening to consume me	J
I will lift what has too long kept down those smouldering fires	N
I will give them complete abandonment	B2
I will write the evangel poem of comrades and of love	Q2
For who but I should understand love with all its sorrow and joy	X2
And who but I should be the poet of comrades	N
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I am the credulous man of qualities ages races	N
I advance from the people in their own spirit	L2
Here is what sings unrestricted faith	Y2
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Omnes Omnes let others ignore what they may	Z2
I make the poem of evil also I commemorate that part also	N
I am myself just as much evil as good and my nation is And I say	Z2
there is in fact no evil	C2
Or if there is I say it is just as important to you to the land	A3
or to me as anything else	N
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I too following many and follow'd by many inaugurate a Religion I	B3
descend into the arena	G
It may be I am destin'd to utter the loudest cries there the	G
winner's pealing shouts	N
Who knows they may rise from me yet and soar above every thing	H
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Each is not for its own sake	H
I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for	C3
Religion's sake	H
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I say no man has ever yet been half devout enough	D3
None has ever yet adored or worship'd half enough	D3
None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the	G

Walt Whitman

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