imm Of Life int case in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action formd under the laws Divine. The Modern Man I sing. Walt Whitman (9) GEMS FROM WHITMAN. See, projected through time, For me an audience interminable. With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Starting from Paumanok. I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. Song of Myself. Stanza 4. II The prophet and the bard, Shall yet maintain themselves, in higher stages yet, Shall mediate to the Modern, to Democracy, interpret yet to them, Perfume this book or mine O blood-red roses! Lave subtly with your waters every line Potomac ! Give me of you O spring, before I close, to put between its pages! Eidolons. OI see now that life cannot exhibit all to me, as the day cannot, I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death. By Broad Potomac's Shore. Night on the Prairies. Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, |