Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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6

 Land of lands and bards to corroborate!
 Of them standing among them, one lifts to the light a west-bred face,
 To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's,
 His first parts substances, earth, water, animals, trees,
 Built of the common stock, having room for far and near,
 Used to dispense with other lands, incarnating this land,
 Attracting it body and soul to himself, hanging on its neck with
 incomparable love,
 Plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits,
 Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him,
 Making its rivers, lakes, bays, embouchure in him,
 Mississippi with yearly freshets and changing chutes, Columbia,
 Niagara, Hudson, spending themselves lovingly in him,
 If the Atlantic coast stretch or the Pacific coast stretch, he
 stretching with them North or South,
 Spanning between them East and West, and touching whatever is between them,
 Growths growing from him to offset the growths of pine, cedar, hemlock,
 live-oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, orange, magnolia,
 Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp,
 He likening sides and peaks of mountains, forests coated with
 northern transparent ice,
 Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna, upland, prairie,
 Through him flights, whirls, screams, answering those of the
 fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,
 His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
 Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
 Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
 Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,
 (...)
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