...heart of Lincoln, the heart that freed the slaves. I quote out of many typical passages: "One's self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse." "Each of us limitless, each of us with his or her right upon the earth, Each of us allowed...

...in society. First of all, as everyone knows, he is distinctively the poet of Democracy. 'One's self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. ' Nor is his democracy a vague sentiment. His native bias was no doubt for an untrammeled,...

...world pours its ( life into a man, and he in turn renders back in new forms the gifts so bestowed. " One's-self I sing, a simple separate person Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse." In the next place, Whitman's thoroughly sane genius perceives the difference between the...

...great heart of the nation, throbbing, answered, ' Lord, we come ! ' WALT WHITMAN 813 ONE'S-SELF I SING ONE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for...

...COLUMBUS 429 A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVEVD ROADS . . 433 o INSCRIPTIONS ONE'S-SELF I SING. INE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for...

...COLUMBUS 4»9 A BACKWAED GLANCE O'EJt TEAVEL'D EOADS . . 433 o INSCRIPTIONS ONE'S-SELF I SING. NE'S-SELF I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for...

...in them all. But he lives in them en masse. It is the whole people together. !£•' ' ' One 's-Self I sing — a simple, separate Person ; Yet utter the word Democratic, the word en masse. Of Physiology from top to toe I sing; Not physiognomy alone, nor brain alone, is worthy for...

...affectionately as he has absorbed it. SELECTIONS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS ^ INSCRIPTIONS ONE'S-SELF I SING One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for...

...country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. FROM LEAVES OF GRASS ONE'S-SELF I SING One's-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for...

...faithfully "and "uncompromisingly," as one representative American, "the born child of the New World." One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.4 But he also ranges, in thought, over the continent, and paints all sorts and conditions...