Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Unnamed Land

 Nations ten thousand years before these States, and many times ten
 thousand years before these States,
 Garner'd clusters of ages that men and women like us grew up and
 travel'd their course and pass'd on,
 What vast-built cities, what orderly republics, what pastoral tribes
 and nomads,
 What histories, rulers, heroes, perhaps transcending all others,
 What laws, customs, wealth, arts, traditions,
 What sort of marriage, what costumes, what physiology and phrenology,
 What of liberty and slavery among them, what they thought of death
 and the soul,
 Who were witty and wise, who beautiful and poetic, who brutish and
 undevelop'd,
 Not a mark, not a record remains--and yet all remains.
 
 O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more
 than we are for nothing,
 I know that they belong to the scheme of the world every bit as much
 as we now belong to it.
 
 Afar they stand, yet near to me they stand,
 Some with oval countenances learn'd and calm,
 Some naked and savage, some like huge collections of insects,
 Some in tents, herdsmen, patriarchs, tribes, horsemen,
 Some prowling through woods, (...)
(......)