Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 It avails not, time nor place--distance avails not,
 I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many
 generations hence,
 Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,
 Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,
 Just as you are refresh'd by the gladness of the river and the
 bright flow, I was refresh'd,
 Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift
 current, I stood yet was hurried,
 Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the
 thick-stemm'd pipes of steamboats, I look'd.
 
 I too many and many a time cross'd the river of old,
 Watched the Twelfth-month sea-gulls, saw them high in the air
 floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies,
 Saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts of their bodies and left
 the rest in strong shadow,
 Saw the slow-wheeling circles and the gradual edging toward the south,
 Saw the reflection of the summer sky in the water,
 Had my eyes dazzled by the shimmering track of beams,
 Look'd at the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my
 head in the sunlit water,
 Look'd on the haze on the hills southward and (...)
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