a parlor, or dressed in the jail uniform or pulpit uniform;

Grown, half-grown, and babe, of this country and every country, indoors and outdoors, one just as much as the other, I see,

And all else is behind or through them.

13. The wife- and she is not one jot less than the husband,

The daughter

and she is just as good as the son, The mother—and she is every bit as much as the

father.

14. Offspring of those not rich, boys apprenticed to trades,

Young fellows working on farms, and old fellows working on farms,

The naïve, the simple and hardy, he going to the polls to vote, he who has a good time, and he who has a bad time,

Mechanics, southerners, new arrivals, laborers, sailors, man-o'-wars-men, merchantmen, coasters, All these I see — but nigher and farther the same I

see,

None shall escape me, and none shall wish to escape

me.

15. I bring what you much need, yet always have, Not money, amours, dress, eating, but as good; I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, but offer the value itself.

16. There is something that comes home to one now and perpetually,

It is not what is printed, preached, discussed - it
eludes discussion and print,

It is not to be put in a book—it is not in this book,
It is for you,
it is no farther from

whoever

you are

you than your hearing and sight are from you, It is hinted by nearest, commonest, readiest it is not them, though it is endlessly provoked by them, (what is there ready and near you now?)

17. You may read in many languages, yet read nothing

about it,

You may read the President's Message, and read nothing about it there,

Nothing in the reports from the State department or Treasury department, or in the daily papers or the weekly papers,

Or in the census returns, assessors' returns, prices current, or any accounts of stock.

18. The sun and stars that float in the open air the apple-shaped earth, and we upon it — surely the

drift of them is something grand!

I do not know what it is, except that it is grand,
and that it is happiness,

And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a
speculation, or bon-mot, or reconnoissance,
And that it is not something which by luck may
turn out well for us, and without luck must be
a failure for us,

And not something which may yet be retracted in a
certain contingency.

19. The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect complaisance devours all things, the endless pride and out-stretching of man, unspeakable joys and

sorrows,

The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute of time forever, and each acre of surface and space forever,

Have

you reckoned them for a trade, or farm-work? or for the profits of a store? or to achieve yourself a position? or to fill a gentleman's leisure, or a lady's leisure?

20. Have you reckoned the landscape took substance and form that it might be painted in a picture? Or men and women that they might be written of, and songs sung?

Or the attraction of gravity, and the great laws and harmonious combinations, and the fluids of the air, as subjects for the savans?

Or the brown land and the blue sea for maps and charts?

Or the stars to be put in constellations and named fancy names?

Or that the growth of seeds is for agricultural tables, or agriculture itself?

21. Old institutions - these arts, libraries, legends, collections, and the practice handed along in manufactures - will we rate them so high?

Will we rate our cash and business high? I have 、 no objection,

I rate them high as the highest then a child born of a woman and man I rate beyond all rate.

22. We thought our Union grand, and our Constitution grand,

I do not say they are not grand and good, for they

are,

I am this day just as much in love with them as

you,

Then I am in love with you, and with all my fellows upon the earth.

23. We consider bibles and religions divine-I do not say they are not divine,

I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow. out of you still,

It is not they who give the life-it is you who give the life,

Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.

24. The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are,

The President is there in the White House for you. it is not you who are here for him,

The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you - not you here for them,

The Congress convenes every Twelfth Month for you,

Laws, courts, the forming of States, the charters of cities, the going and coming of commerce and mails, are all for you.

25. All doctrines, all politics and civilization, exurge from

you,

All sculpture and monuments, and anything inscribed anywhere, are tallied in you,

The gist of histories and statistics as far back as the records reach, is in you this hour, and myths and tales the same,

If you were not breathing and walking here, where would they all be?

The most renowned poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums.

26. All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it,

V. 27.

Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?

All music is what awakes from you, when you are reminded by the instruments,

It is not the violins and the cornets it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza -nor that of the men's chorus, nor that of the women's chorus,

It is nearer and farther than they.

28. Will the whole come back then?

Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more? Does all sit there with you, and here with me?

29. The old, forever-new things—you foolish child! the closest, simplest things, this moment with you, Your person, and every particle that relates to your

person,

The pulses of your brain, waiting their chance and encouragement at every deed or sight,

Anything you do in public by day, and anything you do in secret between-days,

What is called right and what is called wrong

what you behold or touch, or what causes your anger or wonder,

The ankle-chain of the slave, the bed of the bed

house, the cards of the gambler, the plates of the forger,

What is seen or learnt in the street, or intuitively learnt,

What is learnt in the public school, spelling, reading, writing, ciphering, the black-board, the teacher's diagrams,

The panes of the windows, all that appears through them, the going forth in the morning, the aimless spending of the day,

(What is it that you made money? What is it that you got what you wanted?)

The usual routine, the work-shop, factory, yard, office, store, desk,

The jaunt of hunting or fishing, and the life of hunting or fishing,

Pasture-life, foddering, milking, herding, and all the personnel and usages,

The plum-orchard, apple-orchard, gardening, seedlings, cuttings, flowers, vines,

Grains, manures, marl, clay, loam, the subsoil plough, the shovel, pick, rake, hoe, irrigation, draining,

The curry-comb, the horse-cloth, the halter, bridle, bits, the very wisps of straw,

The barn and barn-yard, the bins, mangers, mows,

racks,

Manufactures, commerce, engineering, the building of cities, every trade carried on there, and the implements of every trade,

The anvil, tongs, hammer, the axe and wedge, the square, mitre, jointer, smoothing-plane,

The plumbob, trowel, level, the wall-scaffold, the work of walls and ceilings, or any mason-work, The steam-engine, lever, crank, axle, piston, shaft, airpump, boiler, beam, pulley, hinge, flange, band, bolt, throttle, governors, up and down rods, The ship's compass, the sailor's tarpaulin, the stays and lanyards, the ground tackle for anchoring or mooring, the life-boat for wrecks,

The sloop's tiller, the pilot's wheel and bell, the yacht or fish-smack-the great gay-pennanted threehundred-foot steamboat, under full headway,