Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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BOOK XV

A Song for Occupations

1

 A song for occupations!
 In the labor of engines and trades and the labor of fields I find
 the developments,
 And find the eternal meanings.
 
 Workmen and Workwomen!
 Were all educations practical and ornamental well display'd out of
 me, what would it amount to?
 Were I as the head teacher, charitable proprietor, wise statesman,
 what would it amount to?
 Were I to you as the boss employing and paying you, would that satisfy you?
 
 The learn'd, virtuous, benevolent, and the usual terms,
 A man like me and never the usual terms.
 
 Neither a servant nor a master I,
 I take no sooner a large price than a small price, I will have my
 own whoever enjoys me,
 I will be even with you and you shall be even with me.
 
 If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the
 same shop,
 If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand as
 good as your brother or dearest friend,
 If (...)
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