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Over the sharp-peak’d farm house, with its scallop’d scum and

       slender shoots from the gutters,

       Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav’d corn, over the

       delicate blue-flower flax,

       Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with

       the rest,

       Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;

       Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low

       scragged limbs,

       Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,

       Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot,

       Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great

       goldbug drops through the dark,

       Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to

       the meadow,

       Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous

       shuddering of their hides,

       Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle

       the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;

       Where trip-hammers crash, where the press is whirling its cylinders,

       Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,

       Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it

       myself and looking composedly down,)

       Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat

       hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,

       Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,

       Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,

       Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,

       Where the half-burn’d brig is riding on unknown currents,

       Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;

       Where the dense-starr’d flag is borne at the head of the regiments,

       Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,

       Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,

       Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,

       Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of

       base-ball,

       At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license,

       bull-dances, drinking, laughter,

       At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the

       juice through a straw,

       At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,

       At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;

       Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles,

       screams, weeps,

       Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are

       scatter’d, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,

       Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to

       the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,

       Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,

       Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,

       Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles

       far and near,

       Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived

       swan is curving and winding,

       Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her

       near-human laugh,

       Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the

       high weeds,

       Where band-neck’d partridges roost in a ring on the ground with

       their heads out,

       Where burial coaches enter the arch’d gates of a cemetery,

       Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,

       Where the yellow-crown’d heron comes to the edge of the marsh at

       night and feeds upon small crabs,

       Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,

       Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over

       the well,

       Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,

       Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs,

       Through the gymnasium, through the curtain’d saloon, through the

       office or public hall;

       Pleas’d with the native and pleas’d with the foreign, pleas’d with

       the new and old,

       Pleas’d with the homely woman as well as the handsome,

       Pleas’d with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,

       Pleas’d with the tune of the choir of the whitewash’d church,

       Pleas’d with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher,

       impress’d seriously at the camp-meeting;

       Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon,

       flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,

       Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn’d up to the clouds,

       or down a lane or along the beach,

       My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;

       Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek’d bush-boy, (behind me

       he rides at the drape of the day,)

       Far from the settlements studying the print of animals’ feet, or the

       moccasin print,

       By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,

       Nigh the coffin’d corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;

       Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,

       Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,

       Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,

       Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,

       Walking the old hills of Judaea with the beautiful gentle God by my side,

       Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,

       Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the

       diameter of eighty thousand miles,

       Speeding with tail’d meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,

       Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,

       Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,

       Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,

       I tread day and night such roads.

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