Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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12

 Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
 They too are on the road--they are the swift and majestic men--they
 are the greatest women,
 Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,
 Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,
 Habitues of many distant countries, habitues of far-distant dwellings,
 Trusters of men and women, observers of cities, solitary toilers,
 Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
 Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of
 children, bearers of children,
 Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins,
 Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious
 years each emerging from that which preceded it,
 Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
 Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized baby-days,
 Journeyers gayly with their own youth, journeyers with their bearded
 and well-grain'd manhood,
 Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsurpass'd, content,
 Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood,
 Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe,
 Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.