Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Myself and Mine

 Myself and mine gymnastic ever,
 To stand the cold or heat, to take good aim with a gun, to sail a
 boat, to manage horses, to beget superb children,
 To speak readily and clearly, to feel at home among common people,
 And to hold our own in terrible positions on land and sea.
 
 Not for an embroiderer,
 (There will always be plenty of embroiderers, I welcome them also,)
 But for the fibre of things and for inherent men and women.
 
 Not to chisel ornaments,
 But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limbs of plenteous
 supreme Gods, that the States may realize them walking and talking.
 
 Let me have my own way,
 Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
 Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation
 and conflict,
 I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was
 thought most worthy.
 
 (Who are you? and what are you secretly guilty of all your life?
 Will you turn aside all your life? will you grub and chatter all
 your life?
 And who are you, blabbing by rote, years, pages, languages, reminiscences,
 Unwitting to-day that you do not know how to speak (...)
(......)