Leaves of Grass

g Brook

low me! I see y

un there half an hour

to

men attired in the usu

you ar

he hundreds and hundre

ore curious to me

ross from shore to sho

in my meditations, t

nce of me from all thing

well-join'd scheme, mys

tegrated yet pa

of the past and th

ke beads on my smallest

e street and the pas

so swiftly and swimm

to follow me, the ti

ers, the life, love, s

gates of the ferry and c

atch the run of

shipping of Manhattan

Brooklyn to the

ee the islands

hers will see them as t

an hou

e, or ever so many hun

will s

set, the pouring-in

ack to the sea

time nor place-di

en and women of a gene

neration

en you look on the ri

s one of a living crow

resh'd by the gladnes

t flow, I w

d lean on the rail, ye

, I stood yet

on the numberless m

m'd pipes of ste

any a time cross'd

-month sea-gulls, saw

otionless wings, osci

g yellow lit up parts o

rest in st

circles and the gradual

ion of the summer

led by the shimmer

ntrifugal spokes of lig

in the su

on the hills southwar

as it flew in fleece

lower bay to notice

h, saw aboard those

f schooners and sloops,

k in the rigging or

e swinging motion of

rpentine

eamers in motion, the pi

he passage, the quick trem

nations, the fallin

aves in the twilight,

some crests a

wing dimmer and dimmer

storehouses

owy group, the big stea

e barges, the hay-boa

ore the fires from the

d glaringly i

r of black contrasted

s of houses, and down in

were to me the same

ities, loved well the

omen I saw were

s who look back on me b

to

, though I stop here

it then

the scores or hundred

ils not-distance avails

rooklyn of ample

reets of Manhattan is

aters a

ious abrupt question

owds of people someti

at night or as I lay in

ck from the float for

eceiv'd ident

as of my body, and wh

uld be of

you alone the d

w its patches d

one seem'd to me b

supposed them, were the

lone who know wha

knew what it w

d the old knot

d, resented, lied

, lust, hot wishes

greedy, shallow, sly,

snake, the hog,

frivolous word, the adu

nements, meanness, lazine

rest, the days an

hest name by clear lou

w me approach

y neck as I stood, or

flesh agains

he street or ferry-boat

er told t

the rest, the same old la

t still looks back on

role that is what we make

we like, or bot

yet I app

e of me now, I had as

ores in

and seriously of you

ow what should

but I am e

e distance, but I am as

or all you c

be more stately and

t-hemm'd

and scallop-edg'd w

llating their bodies

t, and the be

hese that clasp me by th

ptly and loudly by my n

han this which ties me

ooks in

o you now, and pours

stand then

hout mentioning it, h

ld not teach-what th

sh is accompli

with the flood-tide, an

ested and scall

e sunset! drench with y

women genera

o shore, countless c

Mannahatta! stand up, be

urious brain! throw ou

everywhere, eternal

ing eyes, in the house or

young men! loudly and

nighes

he part that looks back

e role that is great or

make

ruse me, whether I may

ooking

he river, to support t

with the has

sideways, or wheel in lar

ky, you water, and fai

yes have time to

of light, from the sh

head, in the

the lower bay! pass up

ners, sloop

of all nations! be du

s, foundry chimneys!

ed and yellow light ove

or henceforth, in

ilm, continue to

nd your body for you, be

g your freight, bring

fficient

which none else is pe

bjects than which non

always wait, you dumb

ee sense at last, and ar

be able to foil us, or wi

cast you aside-we plant y

e love you-there is p

your parts t

ou furnish your par