Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 What do you see Walt Whitman?
 Who are they you salute, and that one after another salute you?
 I see a great round wonder rolling through space,
 I see diminute farms, hamlets, ruins, graveyards, jails, factories,
 palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads upon the surface,
 I see the shaded part on one side where the sleepers are sleeping,
 and the sunlit part on the other side,
 I see the curious rapid change of the light and shade,
 I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as
 my land is to me.
 
 I see plenteous waters,
 I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range,
 I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Shahs, Altays, Ghauts,
 I see the giant pinnacles of Elbruz, Kazbek, Bazardjusi,
 I see the Styrian Alps, and the Karnac Alps,
 I see the Pyrenees, Balks, Carpathians, and to the north the
 Dofrafields, and off at sea mount Hecla,
 I see Vesuvius and Etna, the mountains of the Moon, and the Red
 mountains of Madagascar,
 I see the Lybian, Arabian, and Asiatic deserts,
 I see huge dreadful Arctic and Antarctic icebergs,
 I see the superior oceans and the inferior ones, the Atlantic and
 Pacific, the sea of Mexico, the Brazilian sea, and the sea of Peru,
 The waters of Hindustan, the China sea, and the gulf of Guinea,
 The Japan waters, the beautiful bay of Nagasaki land-lock'd in its
 mountains,
 The spread of the Baltic, (...)
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