Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 The log at the wood-pile, the axe supported by it,
 The sylvan hut, the vine over the doorway, the space clear'd for garden,
 The irregular tapping of rain down on the leaves after the storm is lull'd,
 The walling and moaning at intervals, the thought of the sea,
 The thought of ships struck in the storm and put on their beam ends,
 and the cutting away of masts,
 The sentiment of the huge timbers of old-fashion'd houses and barns,
 The remember'd print or narrative, the voyage at a venture of men,
 families, goods,
 The disembarkation, the founding of a new city,
 The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, the outset
 anywhere,
 The settlements of the Arkansas, Colorado, Ottawa, Willamette,
 The slow progress, the scant fare, the axe, rifle, saddle-bags;
 The beauty of all adventurous and daring persons,
 The beauty of wood-boys and wood-men with their clear untrimm'd faces,
 The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves,
 The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless
 impatience of restraint,
 The loose drift of character, the inkling through random types, the
 solidification;
 The butcher in the slaughter-house, the hands aboard schooners and
 sloops, the raftsman, the pioneer,
 Lumbermen in their winter camp, daybreak in the woods, stripes of
 snow on the limbs of trees, the occasional snapping,
 The glad clear sound of one's own voice, the merry song, the natural
 life of the woods, the strong day's work,
 The blazing fire at night, the sweet taste of supper, the talk, the
 bed of hemlock-boughs and the bear-skin;
 The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere,
 The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising,
 The hoist-up of beams, the push of them in their places, laying them
 regular,
 Setting the studs by their tenons in the mortises according as they
 were prepared,
 The blows of mallets and hammers, the attitudes of the men, their
 curv'd limbs,
 Bending, standing, astride the beams, driving in pins, holding on by
 posts and braces,
 The hook'd arm over the plate, the other arm wielding the axe,
 The floor-men forcing the planks close to be nail'd,
 Their postures bringing their weapons downward on the bearers,
 The echoes resounding through the vacant building:
 The huge storehouse carried up in the city well under way,
 The six framing-men, two in the middle and two at each end, carefully
 bearing on their shoulders a heavy stick for a cross-beam,
 The crowded line of masons with trowels in their right hands rapidly
 laying the long side-wall, two hundred feet from front to rear,
 The (...)
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