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I see the nameless masonries, venerable messages of the unknown events, heroes, records of the earth.

I see the places of the sagas;

I see pine-trees and fir-trees torn by northern blasts; I see granite boulders and cliffs-I see green meadows and lakes;

I see the burial-cairns of Scandinavian warriors; I see them raised high with stones, by the marge of restless oceans, that the dead men's spirits, when they wearied of their quiet graves, might rise up through the mounds, and gaze on the tossing billows, and be refreshed by storms, immensity, liberty, action.

I see the steppes of Asia;

I see the tumuli of Mongolia-I see the tents of Kal mucks and Baskirs;

I see the nomadic tribes, with herds of oxen and cows; I see the table-lands notched with ravines-I see the jungles and deserts;

I see the camel, the wild steed, the bustard, the fattailed sheep, the antelope, and the burrowing wolf.

I see the high-lands of Abyssinia ;

I see flocks of goats feeding, and see the fig-tree, tamarind, date,

And see fields of teff-wheat, and see the places of verdure and gold.

I see the Brazilian vaquero ;

I see the Bolivian ascending Mount Sorata;

I see the Wacho crossing the plains-I see the incomparable rider of horses with his lasso on his

arm;

I see over the pampas the pursuit of wild cattle for

their hides.

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I see little and large sea-dots, some inhabited, some

uninhabited:

I see two boats with nets, lying off the shore of Paumanok, quite still;

I see ten fishermen waiting-they discover now a thick school of mossbonkers-they drop the joined seine-ends in the water,

The boats separate-they diverge and row off, each on its rounding course to the beach, enclosing the mossbonkers;

The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,

Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats-others stand negligently ankle-deep in the water, poised on strong legs;

The boats are partly drawn up-the water slaps against

them;

On the sand, in heaps and winrows, well out from the water, lie the green-backed spotted mossbonkers.

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I see the despondent red man in the west, lingering about the banks of Moingo, and about Lake

Pepin ;

He has heard the quail and beheld the honey-bee, and sadly prepared to depart.

I see the regions of snow and ice;

I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn;

I see the seal-seeker in his boat, poising his lance; I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge, drawn by dogs;

I see the porpoise-hunters-I see the whale-crews of the South Pacific and the North Atlantic;

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzerland -I mark the long winters, and the isolation.

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them ;

I am a real Parisian ;

I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Con

stantinople;

I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne;

I am

of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick ;

I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence;

I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw-or northward in Christiania or Stockholm-or in Siberian Irkutsk or in some street in Iceland;

I descend upon all those cities and rise from them again.

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I see vapours exhaling from unexploreq countries; I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the poisoned splint, the fetish, and the obi.

I see African and Asiatic towns;

I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia ;

I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Yedo;

see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts;

I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo;

I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva, and those of Herat ;

I see Teheran-I see Muscat and Medina, and the intervening sands-I see the caravans toiling onward;

I see Egypt and the Egyptians-I see the pyramids and

obelisks;

I look on chiselled histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks; I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies, embalmed, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries;

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I look on the fallen Theban, the large-balled eyes, the side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the

breast.

I see the menials of the earth, labouring;

I see the prisoners in the prisons;

I see the defective human bodies of the earth;

I see the blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunchbacks, lunatics;

I see the pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slavemakers of the earth;

I see the helpless infants, and the helpless old men and

women.

I see male and female everywhere;

I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs;

I see the constructiveness of my race;

I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my

race;

I see ranks, colours, barbarisms, civilizations-I go among them—I mix indiscriminately,

And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.

You, whoever you are!

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You daughter or son of England!

You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ

in Russia!

You dim-descended, black, divine-souled African, large, fine-headed, nobly-formed, superbly destined, on equal terms with me!

You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prus

sian!

You Spaniard of Spain! you Portuguese!

You Frenchwoman and Frenchman of France!

You Belge! you liberty-lover of the Netherlands ! You sturdy Austrian ! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian ! farmer of Styria !

You neighbour of the Danube!'

You working-man of the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Weser! you working-woman too!

You Sardinian! you Bavarian! Swabian! Saxon! Wallachian Bulgarian!

You citizen of Prague! Roman! Neapolitan! Greek! You lithe matador in the arena at Seville !

You mountaineer living lawlessly on the Taurus or Caucasus !

You Bokh horse-herd, watching your mares and stallions feeding!

You beautiful-bodied Persian, at full speed in the saddle, shooting arrows to the mark!

You Chinaman and Chinawoman of China! you Tartar of Tartary!

You women of the earth subordinated at your tasks! You Jew journeying in your old age through every risk, to stand once on Syrian ground!

You other Jews waiting in all lands for your Messiah ! You thoughtful Armenian, pondering by some stream of the Euphrates! you peering amid the ruins of Nineveh! you ascending Mount Ararat !

You foot-worn pilgrim welcoming the far-away sparkle of the minarets of Mecca !

You sheiks along the stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb, ruling your families and tribes!

You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or Lake Tiberias!

You Thibet trader on the wide inland, or bargaining in the shops of Lassa!

You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo !

All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place!

All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes

And

And

of the sea!

you of centuries hence, when you listen to me! you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not, but include just the same!

Health to you! Good will to you all-from me and America sent.

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