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the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,

       The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings —

       always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,

       Always the free range and diversity — always the continent of Democracy;

       Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers,

       Kanada, the snows;

       Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing

       the huge oval lakes;

       Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there,

       the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;

       All sights, South, North, East — all deeds, promiscuously done at all times,

       All characters, movements, growths, a few noticed, myriads unnoticed,

       Through Mannahatta’s streets I walking, these things gathering,

       On interior rivers by night in the glare of pine knots, steamboats

       wooding up,

       Sunlight by day on the valley of the Susquehanna, and on the valleys

       of the Potomac and Rappahannock, and the valleys of the Roanoke

       and Delaware,

       In their northerly wilds beasts of prey haunting the Adirondacks the

       hills, or lapping the Saginaw waters to drink,

       In a lonesome inlet a sheldrake lost from the flock, sitting on the

       water rocking silently,

       In farmers’ barns oxen in the stable, their harvest labor done, they

       rest standing, they are too tired,

       Afar on arctic ice the she-walrus lying drowsily while her cubs play around,

       The hawk sailing where men have not yet sail’d, the farthest polar

       sea, ripply, crystalline, open, beyond the floes,

       White drift spooning ahead where the ship in the tempest dashes,

       On solid land what is done in cities as the bells strike midnight together,

       In primitive woods the sounds there also sounding, the howl of the

       wolf, the scream of the panther, and the hoarse bellow of the elk,

       In winter beneath the hard blue ice of Moosehead lake, in summer

       visible through the clear waters, the great trout swimming,

       In lower latitudes in warmer air in the Carolinas the large black

       buzzard floating slowly high beyond the tree tops,

       Below, the red cedar festoon’d with tylandria, the pines and

       cypresses growing out of the white sand that spreads far and flat,

       Rude boats descending the big Pedee, climbing plants, parasites with

       color’d flowers and berries enveloping huge trees,

       The waving drapery on the live-oak trailing long and low,

       noiselessly waved by the wind,

       The camp of Georgia wagoners just after dark, the supper-fires and

       the cooking and eating by whites and negroes,

       Thirty or forty great wagons, the mules, cattle, horses, feeding

       from troughs,

       The shadows, gleams, up under the leaves of the old sycamore-trees,

       the flames with the black smoke from the pitch-pine curling and rising;

       Southern fishermen fishing, the sounds and inlets of North

       Carolina’s coast, the shad-fishery and the herring-fishery, the

       large sweep-seines, the windlasses on shore work’d by horses, the

       clearing, curing, and packing-houses;

       Deep in the forest in piney woods turpentine dropping from the

       incisions in the trees, there are the turpentine works,

       There are the negroes at work in good health, the ground in all

       directions is cover’d with pine straw;

       In Tennessee and Kentucky slaves busy in the coalings, at the forge,

       by the furnace-blaze, or at the corn-shucking,

       In Virginia, the planter’s son returning after a long absence,

       joyfully welcom’d and kiss’d by the aged mulatto nurse,

       On rivers boatmen safely moor’d at nightfall in their boats under

       shelter of high banks,

       Some of the younger men dance to the sound of the banjo or fiddle,

       others sit on the gunwale smoking and talking;

       Late in the afternoon the mocking-bird, the American mimic, singing

       in the Great Dismal Swamp,

       There are the greenish waters, the resinous odor, the plenteous

       moss, the cypress-tree, and the juniper-tree;

       Northward, young men of Mannahatta, the target company from an

       excursion returning home at evening, the musket-muzzles all

       bear bunches of flowers presented by women;

       Children at play, or on his father’s lap a young boy fallen asleep,

       (how his lips move! how he smiles in his sleep!)

       The scout riding on horseback over the plains west of the

       Mississippi, he ascends a knoll and sweeps his eyes around;

       California life, the miner, bearded, dress’d in his rude costume,

       the stanch California friendship, the sweet air, the graves one

       in passing meets solitary just aside the horse-path;

       Down in Texas the cotton-field, the negro-cabins, drivers driving

       mules or oxen before rude carts, cotton bales piled on banks

       and wharves;

       Encircling all, vast-darting up and wide, the American Soul, with

       equal hemispheres, one Love, one Dilation or Pride;

       In arriere the peace-talk with the Iroquois the aborigines, the

       calumet, the pipe of good-will, arbitration, and indorsement,

       The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward

       the earth,

       The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural

       exclamations,

       The setting out of the war-party, the long and stealthy march,

       The single file, the swinging hatchets, the surprise and slaughter

       of enemies;

       All the acts, scenes, ways, persons, attitudes of these States,

       reminiscences, institutions,

       All these States compact, every square mile of these States without

       excepting a particle;

       Me pleas’d, rambling in lanes and country fields, Paumanok’s fields,

       Observing the spiral flight of two little yellow butterflies

       shuffling between each other, ascending high in the air,

       The darting swallow, the destroyer of insects, the fall traveler

       southward but returning northward early in the spring,

       The country boy at the close of the


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