Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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6

 Will you seek afar off? you surely come back at last,
 In things best known to you finding the best, or as good as the best,
 In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest,
 Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for
 another hour but this hour,
 Man in the first you see or touch, always in friend, brother,
 nighest neighbor--woman in mother, sister, wife,
 The popular tastes and employments taking precedence in poems or anywhere,
 You workwomen and workmen of these States having your own divine
 and strong life,
 And all else giving place to men and women like you.
 When the psalm sings instead of the singer,
 
 When the script preaches instead of the preacher,
 When the pulpit descends and goes instead of the carver that carved
 the supporting desk,
 When I can touch the body of books by night or by day, and when they
 touch my body back again,
 When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child
 convince,
 When the minted gold in the vault smiles like the night-watchman's daughter,
 When warrantee deeds loafe in chairs opposite and are my friendly
 companions,
 I intend to reach them my hand, and make as much of them as I do
 of men and women like you.