Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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6

 Year at whose wide-flung door I sing!
 Year of the purpose accomplish'd!
 Year of the marriage of continents, climates and oceans!
 (No mere doge of Venice now wedding the Adriatic,)
 I see O year in you the vast terraqueous globe given and giving all,
 Europe to Asia, Africa join'd, and they to the New World,
 The lands, geographies, dancing before you, holding a festival garland,
 As brides and bridegrooms hand in hand.
 
 Passage to India!
 Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man,
 The river Euphrates flowing, the past lit up again.
 
 Lo soul, the retrospect brought forward,
 The old, most populous, wealthiest of earth's lands,
 The streams of the Indus and the Ganges and their many affluents,
 (I my shores of America walking to-day behold, resuming all,)
 The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying,
 On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia,
 To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal,
 The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes,
 Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha,
 Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors,
 The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe,
 The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the
 Arabs, Portuguese,
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