I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashanteeman 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 chisel'd histories, songs, philosophies, cut in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite-blocks;

I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies, embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries; I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the sidedrooping neck, the hands folded across the breast.

I see the menials of the earth, laboring;

I see the prisoners in the prisons;

I see the defective human bodies of the earth;

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

I see the pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-makers 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, colors, barbarisms, civilizations—I go among them
-I mix indiscriminately,

And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.

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You, whoever you are!1

II

You daughter or son of England!"

You of the mighty Slavic tribes and empires! you Russ in Russia!

You dim-descended, black, divine soul'd African, large, fineheaded, nobly-form'd, superbly destin'd, on equal terms. with me!

1 1856 reads "You, inevitable where you are!" 1860 '67 read “You, where you are!"

2 After line 192, 1856 reads "You freer man of Australia! you of Tasmania!

You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian!
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 neighbor of the Danube !

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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!

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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!

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All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me!
And you, each and' everywhere, whom I specify not, but include
just the same!

1 "each and" added in 1860.

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

sent.1

Each of us inevitable;

Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth;

Each of us allow'd the eternal purports' of the earth;
Each of us here as divinely as any is here.

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You Hottentot with clicking palate! You woolly-hair'd hordes !3
You own'd persons, dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!"
You human forms with the fathomless ever-impressive counte-
nances of brutes!

I dare not refuse you the scope of the world, and of time and space, are upon me.5 230

You poor koboo whom the meanest of the rest look down upon, for all your glimmering language and spirituality!

You low expiring aborigines of the hills of Utah, Oregon, California!

You dwarf'd Kamtschatkan, Greenlander, Lapp!

You Austral negro, naked, red, sooty, with protrusive lip, grovelling, seeking your food!

You Caffre, Berber, Soudanese !

You haggard, uncouth, untutor'd, Bedowee!

You plague-swarms in Madras, Nankin, Kaubul, Cairo !

You bather bathing in the Ganges!

You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you

Fejee-man!

You peon of Mexico! you slave' of Carolina, Texas, Ten

nessee!

I do not prefer others so very much before you either;

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1 1856 reads "I salute you for myself and for Amercia." 1860, after line

222, adds "For we acknowledge you all and each."

2 1856 '60. For "purports" read "purport."

3 1856 '60 add " you white or black owners of slaves."

After line 228, 1856 reads "You felons, deformed persons, idiots!"

5 Line 230 added in 1867.

1856 '60 add "you Russian serf!"

71856. For "slave" reads "quadroon."

I do not say one word against you, away back there, where you

stand;

(You will come forward in due time to my side.)1

My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth;

I have look'd for equals and lovers,' and found them ready for me in all lands;

I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."

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4

O vapors! I think I have risen with you, and moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons;

I think I have blown with you, O winds;5

6

O waters, I have finger'd every shore with you.

I have run though what any river or strait of the globe has run through;

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I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas, and on the high' embedded rocks, to cry thence.

Salut au monde ! 10

What cities the light or warmth penetrates, I penetrate those

cities myself;

All islands to which birds wing their way, I wing my way myself."

Toward all, 12

I raise high the perpendicular hand—I make the signal,

To remain after me in sight forever,

For all the haunts and homes of men.

1 1856. For lines 241, 2, 3 read "I do not refuse you my hand, or prefer others before you,

I do not say one word against you."

2 1856 reads "I have looked for brothers, sisters, lovers, and found," etc.

3 Line 246 added in 1860.

1856 reads "I think I have risen with you, you vapors," etc.

5 1856. For "O winds" reads "you winds."

61856 reads "I think you waters I have fingered," etc.

71856 reads "I think I have run," etc.

81856 reads "I think I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas, and on embedded rocks."

91860 reads "on the highest embedded rocks, to cry hence."

10 Line 252 added in 1860.

11 After line 254, 1856 reads "I find my home wherever there are homes of men."

12 Lines 255 to end added in 1860.

A CHILD'S AMAZE.

First published in "Drum Taps," 1865.

SILENT and amazed, even when a little boy,

I remember I heard the preacher every Sunday put God in his

statements,

As contending against some being or influence.

THE RUNNER.

First published in 1867.

ON a flat road runs the well-train'd runner;
He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;
He is thinly clothed-he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais'd.

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.

First published in 1860.

WOMEN sit, or move to and fro-some old, some young; The young are beautiful-but the old are more beautiful than the young.

MOTHER AND BABE.

First published in " 'Drum Taps," 1865.

I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother; The sleeping mother and babe-hush'd, I study them long and long.

THOUGHT.

First published in 1860.

Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;

As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men, following the lead of those who do not believe in men.