Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

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 Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
 Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
 Give me a field where the unmow'd grass grows,
 Give me an arbor, give me the trellis'd grape,
 Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching
 content,
 Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the
 Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars,
 Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can
 walk undisturb'd,
 Give me for marriage a sweet-breath'd woman of whom I should never tire,
 Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the
 world a rural domestic life,
 Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only,
 Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal
 sanities!
 
 These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and
 rack'd by the war-strife,)
 These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart,
 While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city,
 Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets,
 Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up,
 Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces;
 (O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries,
 see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)