Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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 A Nation announcing itself,
 I myself make the only growth by which I can be appreciated,
 I reject none, accept all, then reproduce all in my own forms.
 
 A breed whose proof is in time and deeds,
 What we are we are, nativity is answer enough to objections,
 We wield ourselves as a weapon is wielded,
 We are powerful and tremendous in ourselves,
 We are executive in ourselves, we are sufficient in the variety of
 ourselves,
 We are the most beautiful to ourselves and in ourselves,
 We stand self-pois'd in the middle, branching thence over the world,
 From Missouri, Nebraska, or Kansas, laughing attacks to scorn.
 
 Nothing is sinful to us outside of ourselves,
 Whatever appears, whatever does not appear, we are beautiful or
 sinful in ourselves only.
 
 (O Mother--O Sisters dear!
 If we are lost, no victor else has destroy'd us,
 It is by ourselves we go down to eternal night.)