Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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Vocalism

1

 Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine
 power to speak words;
 Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous
 practice? from physique?
 Do you move in these broad lands as broad as they?
 Come duly to the divine power to speak words?
 For only at last after many years, after chastity, friendship,
 procreation, prudence, and nakedness,
 After treading ground and breasting river and lake,
 After a loosen'd throat, after absorbing eras, temperaments, races,
 after knowledge, freedom, crimes,
 After complete faith, after clarifyings, elevations, and removing
 obstructions,
 After these and more, it is just possible there comes to a man,
 woman, the divine power to speak words;
 Then toward that man or that woman swiftly hasten all--none
 refuse, all attend,
 Armies, ships, antiquities, libraries, paintings, machines, cities,
 hate, despair, amity, pain, theft, murder, aspiration, form in
 close ranks,
 They debouch as they are wanted to march obediently through the
 mouth of that man or that woman.