FEINBERG/WHITMAN NOTES and NOTEBOOKS NOTEBOOKS Undated Thoughts, Ideas, Trial lines (3V.) (DCN 138) Box 38 Folder 916th Sept - b J.L Metcalf 3d district station house [3d ward] .79 Warren Organism of Language Becker's Translated to English Grimm's work in German Language W. Gibson 363 Sixth ave Middlesise House Concord, Mass Dr. Ruggles 24 East Warren Wilson 4 Greene near Cumbria [Noon] These are the words of the master These Clerke's Rudiments & Practice 1 vol. Comis Blackstone Prof Winis' Commentary on the Hebrew Law Montesquieu Spirit of the Laws Robert Hunt's "Poetry of Science" Poetry of the East Pub Whittemore, Niles & Hall [??????]These shall live, abide Shall grow in Shall work in the streets Manhahatta Shall climb the Alleghanies and translated into English Grimm's work in German Language W. Gibson 363 Sixth av Middlesex House Concord, Mass Dr Ruggles 24 East Warren Wilson 4 Greene near Cumberland [?] A. Brownson Alcott Oct. 4th '56 Jas. Metcalf 79 Warren st. (station House) Mr. Held 4 Boerum near Fulton av. Clerke's Rudiments & Practice 1 vol. Comis Blackstone Prof Wines Commentaries on the Hebrew Law Montesquieu Spirit of the Laws Robert Hunt's "Poetry of Science" Poetry of the East Pub Whittemore Niles & Hall [?]"Ancient Hebrews" by Abm. Mills A.S. Barnes & Co. "Glimpses of Life & Manners in Persia" by Lady Sheil with notes on Russia, Koords, Turkomans, Nestorians, (refers to 1849) Mrs Tynsdale at Mrs. Mannings [at] in Clinton av. near De Kalb nearly opposite the church Dr. Draper's Physiology (Harper last 2 no's Harper) Brownlow's Map of the Stars 184 Cherry st. Sam Matthews Walt Whitman stands to=day in the midst of the American people a promise, a preface, an overture a Will he fulfil the half=distinct half=indistinct promise? --- Many do not understand him, but there are others, a few who do understand him. Will he justify the great prophecy of Emerson? or will he too, like thousands of others, flaunt out [the] one bright commencement, the result of gathered powers, only to sink back exhausted -- or to give himself up to the seduction ofThe observer stand [some] clear day on the northeast height of Washington Park, some clear day in the year 1900, (the year of These States.) will look on? For your own sake To stand fast of me! To stand unshaken, [and] tenacious, [to] [To believe in me - no matter]I had rather have the good will of the butchers and boatman of Manhattan Island than all the nominations approbation rewards of the government--literaty elegant persons [Jake]American songs, -- in which prose, (to be spoken -- with a low, or other musical accompaniment.) is interlineatedAmerican songs, -- in which prose, (to be spoken -- with a low, or other musical accompaniment.) is interlineatedAmerican songs, -- in which prose, (to be spoken -- with a low, or other musical accompaniment.) is interlineatedPoem of Maternity O my dear child! My [Darly?] Primer of Words [and Hand] Thoughts } (none of Ideas } these Principles} suitPoem of Maturity O my dear child! My [Darly?] (Now I am maternal -- a child bearer -- I [be] have from my womb borne For friendship: Have you any doubts of mortality? I say there can be no more doubt of immortality than there is of mortality.Poem of Maternity O my dear child! My [Darly?] (Now I am maternal -- a child bearer -- I [be] have from my womb borne For friendship: For immortality!Poem of Maternity O my dear child! My [Darly?] (Now I am maternal -- a child bearer -- I [be] have from my womb borne a child, and observe it [For great ideas!] The life that is, not underlaid by great ideas is - -[?] Poem The earth, model of poems [That is my] [model] - ? none need [I do not] discard what I find in the theory of the great diversified round earth, so beautiful, [and] so nude. The body of a man, [?] that [I] is my model - I do not reject what I find in my body - I am not ashamed - Why should I be ashamed? The body of a woman [?] That is my perfect model - I believe in all the body of the woman - I believe the perfect woman shall even precede the manPersonality ! National hymns, The freeman's and freewoman's songs, The master's words, [strong] arrogant, [lawless], fluent, severe.-- curious is the brown [wo] real earth! How curious, how spiritual is the water Politics On the one side pledged to - - - On the other side to _ _ _ On the one side - - - On - - -Dwell'g [neighbor to the] nigh the Ohioan and Kentuckian, a friendly neighbor, [W] Saunter'g the streets of Boston, Portland, long list of cities Personality! You! whoever you are! without one single exception, in any part of any of These States! I [seize] you with [sh] free and severe [your] How curious is the brown real earth! How curious, how spiritual is the water Politics On the one side pledged to - - - On the other side to - - - On the one side - - - On - - -Dwell'g [neighbor to the] nigh the Ohioan and Kentuckian, a friendly neighbor, [W] Saunter'g the streets of I understand you, you bards of other [ages and] lands I [understand you,] bear you in mind, you ancestors of men.- Personality! You! Whoever you are! without one single exception, in any part of any of These States! I [seize] ? " you with [sh] free and severe [your] hand- I know well, whoever you are, you are my equal, and the President's equal,- and that there is no one on this globe [and] any [better] [gr] greater than you- and that there is no existence in all the universes any more immortal than you[r],[?????] Personality! Your Personality - ! You [and] whoever you are? O you coward that dare not [claim] be audacious [for your own sake!] O you liar that [falsely] assume to be modest and deferential O you slave O you tongueless, eyeless, earless O you that will not receive me for your own sakeGreat ideas dominate over all -- What has Shakespeare done to England? Not -- not -- are of any account compared to the few men of great ideas Even One great idia vitalizes a nation - Men of great ideasThis then, is life, and this the earth. - How curious! How real. Underfoot, the divine soil, - [O]overhead, the sun Surround [them] my poems, you east and west, for they are for you, And you north and south, for they are for you, Imbue them, nights, for they are of you, and for you, And you, days, for they are for you. - Lo Lo! [the] ships sailing! Lo, [the] [we] [interminable] intersecting streets in cities, full of living people, coming and going! How real is the ground! Come let us [p] set our feet upon the ground; How perfect and beautiful Do you not know that [the] your soul has brothers and sisters just as much as the your body has?This then, is life, and this the earth, - How curious! How real. Underfoot, the divine soil,- [l] overhead, the sun Surround [them] my poems, you east and west, for [my] ancessors of man Nor [you] you [you] [The] old poets I do not forget to salute you, [you] [old] young poets, of all [times] ages and lands, are for you. - Lo Lo! [the] ships sailing! Lo, [the] [the] [interminable] intersecting streets in cities, full of living people, coming and going! How real is the ground! Come let us [?] set our feet upon the ground; How perfect and beautiful are the animals! [How vas] How much room, and splendor! How inevitable How [vast and] specious! This then, is life, and this the earth, - [to receive] [shall ought to] deserves more than you, and never can deserve I do not [forget] fail to salute you with my hand, you and [???] poets of all ages and lands, I do not forget [to bless] any one of you, you fallen nations, - to bless you - nor any one of you, [you] ancestors of men Lo! [the] ships sailing! Lo, [the] [the] [interminable] intersecting streets in cities, full of living people, coming and going! Lo, [where] iron and steam so grand, so welcome! Lo, [?] you O divine soil! Overhead, O *How curious! - How real! Underfoot, the divine soil! Overhead, the sun! [How] [curious] [How curious I myself!] me,[I do not salute you, (with [] you poets of all ages and lands, I do not forget [to bless] any one of you, you fallen nations, - to bless you - nor any one of you, [you] ancestors of men] Fille'd fill'd with [wonders] such Overhead, [how] the splendid [the] sun! Under=foot, [how] the O divine soil, Under=foot , O divine soil! Overhead, O *How curious!--How real. Underfoot, the divine soil! Overhead, the sun! [How curious] [How curious I myself!] me,Listen to me out from Paumanok, where I was born and I [recite] All is in yourself, [The] [All things, all thoughts,] Things, thoughts, the stately shows of the world, the suns and moons, the landscape, summer and winter, [the] poems, endearment All Free, Savage and strong, [Primal] [arrogant], coarse, luxuriant, [coarse], [and] [combative], fluent, self=sufficient, [A] [O] [From] out [of] from Manhattan Island I [make] send the poems of The States.Forever and Thy soul! [To coun] Forever and forever, [as long] longer [as the] than great land is brown and solid, [as] long as [as] the water ebbs and flows They [gi] [shall] duly give place [a few] their order of millions of years--but you O my soul shall never give place! *Life--how curious, how real Space and time filled with such [easy] wonders! To walk, to breathe, how delicious The [daylig] day; [these] the [curious; divine,] animals! identity! eyesight! Underfoot, the divine soil, Overhead, the sun.As long as the earth is brown and solid Free, savage, strong, Cheerful, luxuriant, fluent, self=sufficient [Out from] Formed of [the sea-beach, from] found of slender Paumanok formed of the sea=beach where I was born From Manhattan [Island] I send the poems in The StatesTo you endless [?one] To you, these to report nature, men, politics, from an American point of view. You old man and old woman; for they [know] [see] would show that you are no less admirable than any You sexual organs and acts, for they [behold] are determined to tell you with glad courageous loud voice, to make you illustrious. The Tennessee=man and the Tennessee=woman --[the same as ever] no less to me [to us] than ever. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, yet travelled by me. [The] Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, yet dwelt [in by me,] [Huron, Erie, Mic] Ontario, Erie, Huron Michigan, Superior yet sailed upon by me.there, winter snows, for they [are] would make you [Help] Favor them, [to ye] all your laws of materials, and [all ponderable things] [all] of vulgar and rejected things, for they would make you illustrious You mothers You young women, for they [p] would announce you [as just] forever as capable and eminent as [the] young men. The man or woman of Texas, the Louisianian, the Floridian the Georgian, the Carolinian, the Mississippian the Arkansian, the Californian as much my friend as ever, and I his friend or her friend as much as ever, Oregon as much mine as ever You Manahatta! [Manhatta!] [Manahatta!] [still] close as ever! O Close! Close to me The man of Ohio[an] and woman of Ohio as [close] real to me as ever The Kentuckian [may?] for me and I for him as much as ever Wisconsin, Iowa Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Minnesota! for me [as much as] even the same and I for them [as much] the same as ever!This then is life, Here is what has [been] come [arrived] upon This [then is] the earth, and [what has arrived] the earth, out of [after] so many throes and convulsions.— How curious! How real! Underfoot the divine soil — Overhead, the sun. — [Afford foothold to my poems,] [you] Nourish my poems, Earth, and give them roots, [you earth,] for they are your offspring, Bedew them, [dews] you spring and summer dews—shelter Philip Holmes Adirondacks — to Troy — then in the cars to Moreau — then by stage to Glen's Falls — then by stage to Lake George — then to Scroon lake — I will visit the Texan in The [walk] jaunt over the prairies as welcome as ever The [banks of the] ever long [sail] voyage [Missouri] up the [Mississippi] Shine upon then, sun, for theyPhilip Holmes Adirondacks then in the breezed, the Ar[] braced, the sea=bosomed, the Mississippi=drained, the fresh=breezed, the ample=land, the wonderful, the welcome, the inseparable brothers! O dear lands! O death! O I will not [desert] [you by death] be [death] be [divested] discharged from you by death O I [do not care] cannot be severed! I [will yet] visit you [yet] yet with irrepressible love. O I [will visi] come silently and invisibly Again thePremonition [*(last verse*] ? To you, endless announcements [To America] Whoever you are, For your sake, these. *Free, fresh and savage; [strong,] [Cheerful], Fluent, luxuriant, [fluent] self=compl[] our [?] perso O intertwined lands! O lands of the future! [This] [Ahold of lands,] [These interhanded] copious land Washington land [The interhanded States] O [my] the lands! [The] Copious embrace interhanded, the many=armed, the knit together, the passionate lovers, the fused [ones] and clasped! [the equal] [womb offspring,] The old and young brothers, the [age-old;] [world] side by side, the experienced sisters and the inexperienced sisters, the equal ones, the womb=offspring, the well=[attached the] beloved of ages! [and of] ages! ages! [ages] The inextricable the river=tied and the mountain=tied.Premonition [*(last verse*] ? To you, endless announcements! ? [To America] Whoever you are, For your sake, these. * Free, fresh and savage; [strong] [Cheerful], Fluent, luxuriant, [fluent] self=composed — '[] ' & [friends.] persons I was born [?] of the sea=beach, [My] In [the] streets of Mannahatta, [I] street walking [and so and thence] I [found the strong] make poems [of] forming The States. In Mannahatta's streets walking I make poems for the states O intertwined lands! O lands of the future! [This] [A hold of hands,] copious land Washington's land [These interhanded] [The interhanded States] O [my] the lands! [The] [O] copious embrace, interhanded, the many=armed, the knit together, the passionate lovers, the fused [ones] and clasped [the equal] [wombs offspring] the old and young brothers [$] * Free savage, strong, Cheerful, luxuriant, fluent, self=[sufficient]composed- fond of friends, fond of woman and children Fond of fish-shaped [Paumanok] Paumanok, where I was born, — fond of the sea=beach, From Mannahatta I send the poems of The States.All that you do gain dissipates away But all that you do to your body, mind, morals lasts in this sphere and in other spheres Shall grow in the manly muscle of men and in the greatness of perfect women I do not say that life is not beautiful, But I say that whatever it is, it all tends to dr?] the beauty of death, passionate lovers, the fused [ones] and clasped [the equal] [womb=offering,] the old and young brothers th [words] side by side To you, [endless] endless announcements [To you] whoever you are, kiss you with the lips of [real] personal love(Simply Endless Announcements nothing more Words of America Free and severe words, the master's words, The mother's, father's, husband's, wife's, son's, daughter's, words, The Proem must have throughout a strong saturation of America, The West, the Geography, the representative American man.O you round Earth, I Savage and strong, Free, luxuriant, in 'I from Mannahatta' speak up for The States. O my body, that gives me identity! O my organs all and [each] every one O that which makes manhood! O A Savage and [luxuriant] strong Primal [Am] Free, luxuriant, im I, [come] from Manahatta [an Amer] stand [in the midst] of [The States] speak up for you and for The[se] States -Poem of Remorse I now look back to the times when I thought others -- slaves -- the ignorant ? -- so much inferior to my self -- To have so much less right than myselfPreface of Proem Endless Announcements Toward the perfect, woman of [This] America Toward the perfect man of America. Toward the President of These States, and the members of the Congress of These States Preface Proem of Endless Announcements After all is said, it remains to be said, This too is great in its reference to deathPreface Proem of Endless Announcements Toward the perfect, woman of [This] America Toward the perfect man of America. Toward the President of These States, and the members of the Congress of These States Preface Proem of Endless Announcements Commencement of Discourse "Spiritualism" Life is very great, but there [$] is something greater than life, absorbing life, namely Death. - When as we may - the midst of affairs, going to dinner &c, we receive [the] news of the sudden Death of - - over Preface of Proem Endless Announcements Toward the perfect woman of [This] America Toward the perfect man of America. Toward the President Lo Shall speak in the Presidents Message from the porch of the Federal Capitol, and in the Governors' Messages from the State Capitols, and in the rulings of the Judges of the Supreme Court.Proem.- Proem of all These are the candid open-shown thoughts of me, and of all my body & soul [Lo the [amp] [for] [open] amplitude] over and over Lo the round globe tumbling Lo, friendly persons, advancing, tall, muscular, friendly with sufficient hands and feet Lo - [the] great women upon the world [of] [the New World] and [the] Lo, how they precede the beard=faced masters [of] upon the world. N. Y. Express Oct. 21, 1856 "But for the American party, the Northern, sectional, geographical party of Wm H. Seward & Co. would, under Fremont have swept the whole Northern country." (editorial.) the round globe, visibly friendly persons, advancing, tall, muscular, (friendly with sufficient hands and feet Lo - [the] great women upon the world [of] [the New World] and [the] Lo, how they precede the beard=faced masters [of] upon the world. from the [?] and in the rulings of the Judges of the Supreme Court.9th av cor 24th Dan Von Valkenb Lot on Lawton at near Division av W. McCormick 105 Byard st S. Wallin 8 LeRoy Place 8 LeRoy Place Bleeker St Silas Ludlan Youmans 63 2d av. F. Bellew 40 West 27th st Empire House Pennsylvania av between 3d & 4th street Mrs. Harrison's Pennsylvania Patrick Fleming. / Jackson Hall for & Pennsylvania Charles Drummond Dr. Smith 140 York st. cor Charles Mrs. Tyndale Germantown cor Main and High sts. Mrs. Chilton (Phebe Ann Wood) 69 Varick 34 st Grove Mr. T. C. Leland 77 Duane st. Mrs. Walton 107 Dean corner Hoyt. John W. Usher Cor Pensylvania av & 14th st City LunchIn his presence all the [crowns and sc?] Presidents and governors and kings of the world bend their heads__ All wealth and vaunted honor. His eminence [makes] makes flat all rank however vaunted When he appears. Presidents and governors descend into the crowd [.for] [He alone [is] has] [eminence;] [and in its company,] capitalists and bankers are cheap with all their golden eagles.— The learnedest professors,and the [makers] authors of the [best] most renowned books [are] [becom] are baffled of their art [and] having come to [the flowering] [sweetness of flowering] of a great fact [fact] embodying flower and fruit in nature, where [the and] the [?] best of [them] themselves are but the [first] [withering] sprouts, groping feebly [out of] from the February ground.-- having come to a great fact in the orchard of nature covered with [perfe] flowers and fruit, where the best of themselves is but a feebly pushing through the February ground.-- The rights of property! Why what build [foundation] substance is there [for][the] in any other right of property than that which is built on the primal right - the first=born, deepest broadest right -- the right of every human being to his personal self.-- Every man who claims or takes the power to own another man as his property, stabs me in [that] the heart of my own rights -- forThey only grow of that first vast principle, as a tree grows from the seed Why do we arrest and a thief of property.-- Mainly because in stealing from another man he jeopardizes the principle by why you and I and all others hold our own. The one scratches me a little on the [cheek] forehead The other draws his murderous razor through my heart The one man[gre?] all the snivellings of the [fask] leaves the man as he found him solid and real as a - the otherIf every man and woman [upon] [this which] riding in this [huge vehicle] huge round car that [wheels] whirls us through the universe, be not [interested in] touched to the vitals, by the [discussion] question whether another of the passengers [co] [c?????ly] shall be made a slave, tell me O learned lawyer or professor - tell me what are they interested in? - What does touch them? - What comes home to a man, the principle if the right to himself does not? - Is there in the wide world any [principle] thing that is so evenly and so irreversibly bears upon every individual of our race, in all ages, in tongues and colors and climates, and conditions - Is their any thing that it stands us in hand--all of us without one single exception, [are so] to keep the rats and the [wolves] moths so carefully away from as this - the warrantee deed, the original charter of the very feet [we stand ?] that bear us up A good saying in the street Only something from a gentleman [w]could insult me; and a gentleman never [cou] would insult me.[Common] good naturally treat every thing - every sect - every dogma every nation - [from] refer to the heart of what goodness there is in them - The difference is between the laws of a just and equitable republic and the laws, even though be the same, that come from an irresponsible tyrant.- I have heard of people who suggest as a choker upon (the right of freedom that all men are more or less slaves - some to gain, some to fashion, others to priests and superstition, The hard=working mechanic the say, isI know there are strong and solid arguments against slavery - lawyer - practical man - arguments addressed to the great American thought Will it pay? - & c & c & c & c [These] Discourses [upon] in this channel entertain and instruct us well But all these must be now left aside. - We will ascend to [that] tribunal of last resort - we will not waste words with messengers and secretarys. - We will [go directly] stand face to face with thechief of the supreme bench We will speak with the soul.-- The learned think the unlearned an inferior race.-- The merchant thinks his bookkeepers and clerks sundry degrees below him; they in turn think the porter and carmen common; and they the laborer that brings in coal, and the stevedores that haul the great burdens with their ? But this is an inferior race.-- Well who shall be the judge [who] of [is] [the] inferior and superior races.-- The class of dainty gentlemen think that all servants and laboring people are inferior. - In all lands, The select few who live and dress richly, [always] make a mean estimate of the body of the people.-- If it it be [right] justifiable to take away liberty for inferiority -- then it is just to take money or goods, to commit rapes,to seize on any thing you will, for the same reason. - [Would] Is it [be] enough answer to the crime of stealing a watch, that you stole it from an ignorant nigger, who don't know the odds between an adverb and three times twelve? - If you spend your violent lust on a women, by terror and violence [it] will it [balance accounts] receipt the bill when [who] you endorse it, nothing but a mulatto wench? - But [free] as great as any worldly wealth to a man, or [her] womanhood to a woman, - greater than these, I think is the right of liberty, to any and to all men and women. -- It is as logical to take the life or property of some poor fellow for his inferiority- or color, as it is to take his personal liberty. --Beware the flukes of the whale. He is slow and sleepy - but when he moves, his lightest touch is death. [I think he already feels the lance. for he moves a little restlessly. You are great sportsmen no doubt [W]That!] That [black and] huge lethargic mass, my sportsman? dull and sleepy as it seems [has] holds the lightning and the [bolts] taps of thunder. -- He is slow -- O, long and long and slow and slow — but when he does move, his lightest touch is death. The flukes of a whale they are as quick as high The Poet [His] He has a charm that makes fluid [the heart of] every thing in the universe however distant, or however dense, and [where made] so he [breath] inhales it as a breath, and it is all good air and arterializes vitalizes the blood [within] that goes squirting through his heart.--The poet, having not a dime, has the good of all things. And men, indeed, only have the good of any thing, in proportion as they [enjoy] approach [the n] his nature The mere rich man, whose draught on the bank [for] is good for scores of thousands, may be indeed, generally must be, a blind and naked beggar in [the] the only real riches. [of] All the riches [*?*] evoked into the world by [all the] inventors, by the industrious, and by the keen, [are] become bubbles when the true poet scatters the utterance of his soul upon the world.-- To have the crops fail - to forego all the flour and pork of the western states, to burn the navy, or a [half of the] town were less to lose, than one of his great sayings to lose.--Each word is sweet medicine to the soul. - He sheds light upon the sun, [He] on The darkest night he sheds an infinite darkness. You can, to the poet, bring nothing which is not a curious miracle to him.- [*Change all this to commendation*] What has been called Religion that of Belus and Osiris and Isis, that of Ethiopia or still backward--that of Jupiter and Ceres-- that of Jerusalem with its temple an -- that of Rome under Popes and Jesuits- that of Mahomet or [??] Bhudda [that] those of our Methodists and Episcopalians and Presbyterians and Quakers and Unitarians and Mormons--what are they [may we] all [or] any of them? [We] know they are intrinsically little or nothing, though nations and ages have writhed for [most of] them in life and in death. -- [We] I know they do not satisfy the appetite ofthe soul, with all their churches and their libraries and their priesthood. - Nevertheless let us treat them with decent forbearance. Mean as they are when we have ascended beyond them and look back, they were doubtless the roads for their times [and] Let us not [despise] too quickly despise them; - for they have sufficed to [brought] bring us where we are.-- Like scaffolding which is a blur and nuisance when the house is well up - yet the house could not be achieved without the scaffold.--No doubt the efflux of the soul [is] comes through beautiful gates of laws that [we may] at some future period perhaps a few score millions of years we may understand better- At present its tide is what [we] folks call capricious and cannot well be traced*. ()- Why as I just [catch a] look in the railroad car at some [workmans] half turned face, do I love that [being] woman, Though[tless] [that] she is neither young nor [beautiful] fair [featured] complexioned, [she] remains in my memory afterward for a year, and I calm myself to sleep at night by thinking of her.- Why [are] be there men I meet, and [many] others I know, that [when] while they are with me, the sunlight of Paradise[warms] expands my blood -- that which [of] I walk with an arm of theirs around my neck, my soul [leaps and laughs like] scoots and courses [a new=waked child] like [a caressed] an unleased dog [caressed]-- that when they leave me the pennants of my joy sink flat [from the] and lank in the deadest calm? -- Why; [do I as I sit at my table in] do flocks [thoughts] of ideas, some twittering as wrens, or chirping or [robin's] pee wheets.? some soft as pigeons, some screaming as [eagles] sea-hawks, some shy and afar off as the wild brant, some invariably why do these [swarm at] beat their countless wings and clutch their feet upon me, as I sit [in the adjoining room,] near by [to] where my brother is practising at the piano?-- There is a certain block between my house and the South ferry, not especially different from [any] other blocks bordered by trees. Why [then] do I never pass [it] there without new and large and [beautiful] melodious [thoughts] thoughts descending upon me?-- [I think] I guess they have there winter and [?????] ply the limbs of those trees and continually drop their fruit, [upon] if I travel that [block] way Some fisherman that [always] [stop to pass the time-o-day] give good morning to and pass ten or twenty minutes [with] as he draws his seine by the shore--some carpenter working his rip saw through a plank - Some driver as I ride on top of the stage,--men rough, [rough,] not handsome, not accomplished--why do I know that the subtle chlo=reform of our spirits is affecting each other, and though we may [never meet] encounter not again, we [know that] [feel] [we two] have [pass] exchanged the right [mysterious] [unspoken] password [of the night] and [have] are thence free [entrance] comers to [each] the guarded tents of each others' [love] most interior love? *(What is the [cause] meaning any how, of my [love] [attachment] adhesiveness [for] toward others?-- What is the cause of theirs [love for] toward [for] me?) (Am I loved by them boundlessly because my love for them is more boundless?--) While the curtain is down at the opera, While I wait for my friend at the corner, while, while I swim in the bath [taking time in the bath,] I behold [men and women], and am beheld by people; I speak little or nothing; I [offer] make no gifts to them; I do not so much as turn my neck or pat my [boot] instep to gain my [in their behalf; [tap from them] ? part of the favor; we never met [nor] before - never heard [of] or shall hear [each's other before] [each's] names, [nor] dates nor employments- With all this, some god walks in noiseless and resistless, [takes] and takes their hearts out of their breasts, and gives them to me forever.-- Often I [see it, and] [get] catch the [hint] sign; and oftener, no doubt, it [goes] flies [over] by me as unknown as my neighbor's dreams.--and bring her naked to his bed, that he [they together] may sleep together [with] [her]; and she shall come again whenever he will, and the taste shall [always] be sweeter and sweeter always Their [Their Rules] and their Pet President [do] I see them lead him [onward] now.-- I see [the] his large slow gait, his face illuminated [and gay] like the face of a [happy] young child.-- [I see him shooting the light of his soul] Onward he moves with the gay of procession, [to the music] [and its dancing band] [of] of [laughter] laughing pioneers and the wild trilling bugles of joy.-- Onward he moves with the gay procession, and the laughing pioneers, and the wild=trilling bugles of joy The Poet [I think] His sight is the sight of the ?bird and his scent the instinct of the ?dog I think ten million supple-fingered gods are perpetually employed hiding beauty in the world - [hiding] burying it [but] and every where in every thing. most of all [where] in spots that men and women do not think of [it], and never look - as [in] death, and [misery] poverty and wickedness.-- Cache after cache [?] [is] all over the earth and in the heavens [above] that sun the earth and in the [depth] waters of the sea.-- [Ther] They do their [work] jobs well; those [supple-fingered gods] journeymen divine.[But] Only, [to] from the poet [do] can they, can hide nothing; [hide] and would not if they could.-- they [attend] write on night and day and [show where they take] uncover all, that he shall see the naked breast and the most private [of Delight].-- I [think] reckon he is [the really ?? the god] Boss of those gods [for they] and the work they do is done for him, and all that they have concealed they have concealed for his [sake] sake [Ahead] They [?] run [nimbly] [For] Him they attend outdoors or indoors; to his [perceptions they open all.--] ahead [as] when he walks, [and] and [to] lift their cunning cover, and [po] signify [to] him with [pointed] pointed stretched arms.-- [The] [then] They undress Delight What variety - what richness in life: But [great] richer than life [is] spreads out what we call [D?] How supple is youth, How muscular, how full of love and grace and unspeakable fascination, But old age may wear [more] [love and] graces and fascination a thousand fold. How large and splendid is the sun lit day. Till the night comes with [its mystery and darkness] transparent darkness and mystery and the stars, [And those] Touching the soul closer than the grandest day. How magnificent [are wishes] is wealth [that spread over one] affording gifts [without ?] from theample hand, and superb clothes and hospitality But all [riches] wealth is [are] nothing to the soul's, which [are] is candor [and life] and [all] enfolding love Did not Jesus show that what we call poverty is [great] the greatest [riches] wealth. Why. what is this curious little [thing] [creature] thing [you] you hold [for] [?] you hold before us? -- [We read in the advertisements of your new [and] edition of our the rare, enlarged and improved.] Do you call [this abject] [such a] such a wretched as you have pictured here [Thing] creature a man.--[Man is a Master of] of the President of the [whole] earth. [Why] This is no man.-- This is [some] the abject louse--[some] the milk=faced maggotWhat an abject creature [would] make a [human being] man.-- Notice! What louse is this [you] what [crawling sniveling] milk faced [maggot] that [falls lays] flattens itself upon the ground, and asks leave to live, [as of no] not as of right of its own, but by special favor; [snufflin] sniveling how it [is] were righteously condemned, being of the vermin race and [is] will [thank] be only too thankful [to go to its] if it [be let] can [crawl] [escape] [to its hole under the dung, and] [escape] dodge the stick or booted heel, and escape to its hole under the dung! I should think poorly of myself if I [could] should be even a few days with any community either of sane or insane people and not make them convinced, whether they acknowledged it or not, [with] of my truth, my sympathy, and my dignity.-- I should be [assured] certain enough that those attributes were not in me.-- [The] Although it may balk and tremble a few moments on its balance? it [is] will surely signifyNo piety that macerates and flogs itself, and refuses women and laughter and a [rich florid] long strong florid life, [as] [equal] begins to be piety in comparison with that which If your souls do not The most accomplished lapidary cannot [tell] separate the real opal ?and from their counterfeits in glass, [as] so unerringly as the soul can tell what is its truth and what is sham. - Yet in the [superb] ordinations, this clarifying and separating power any thing like perfection is not arrived at [in] [any thing like perfection] hastily.-- Nature is not a young fellow* In the city when the streets have been long neglected, they heap up banks of mud in the shape of graves, and put boards at the head and feet, with very significant inscriptions.-- Comparison between a sincere devotee of any time, and a fashionable preacher.-- O yes the Fugitive Slave Law is obeyed northerly every day in the year -- except three hundred and sixty fiveAll this Religion of the old as it let us not be too stern with it - it is the meagre grass thin and pale and yellow which shows the life of the soil. [and] A bell ringer went out at night to sound his alarm for a fire.-- After two or three rings, the notes ceased, and when they went to see, the bell ringer was dead.-- Inexplicably curious is [the cor] what we call happiness.-- I have felt the [strange] sweet mystery more for forty minutes cleaning and greasing my boots, than Heed what I have said and [are] ready.-- amplitude of her means, [?] time is inconceivably ample.-- [Therefore] It is for O She does not rush, [and] nor get in any tight sport that needs hard scratching [Give me the commander who carries a thousand regiments in his breast both horses foot; and in his head whole parks of artillery, the swiftest and best disciplined in the world.]All this Religion of the world as it let and not be too stern with it - it is the meagre grass thin and pale and yellow which shows the life of the soil. [and] Comes some one to a man saying, your mother is famished, your brother is blue and dead with cold, and the man answers, I have [me] meat, but is is inconvenient to go for it just now; and I have cloth but it is out of reach on a [high] shelf Inexplicably curious is [the cor] what we call happiness.-- I have felt the [strange] sweet mystery more for forty minutes cleaning and gresing my boots, than Hear what I have said and seized upon your soul and get its sign there If not then I know there is no elementary vigor in my words If [I have] not then I throw my words [with] among the other parings and crush of the swill tub, and go home and bathe myself, and listen to music and touch my lips to the flesh of sleeping children, and come and try again.The Poet What you call your Religion, [however warm it may] paint [it] [as] with as much red as you can stick on- - wrench the biggest words [to] to describe it - and then multiply many fold; [yet] it is yet too [feeble] feeble and [cold] babyish for the Poet. He [must] will have something infinitely more alive and ample and strong and fiery and comprehensive.-- There is an ugliness undone and unspoken, worse than [the] any sins of ignorance or [bad temper] uncouth ways. A man shall maliciously tell of [some] the chap at the table picking his teeth with the dinner fork, and show [This hat] big a little hood and [coat you] tunic you [have] tailored [too small] for [the soul] for some [wasted sickly] poor, consumptive [wasted] child, and [is] [You ? your clothier's tapes and] gaudy with spangles of tin. For thy soul, [that is so ] [large that] whose far spreading [the breasts] shoulders burst the overcoat of the universe as [inconceivably] [too] insupportably [cramping] pinching and scant and of [no] small account-- [that] who [t] takes the suns for its toys [toys], and soon wants [something] better - [they will] you [bring a] [piece] tailor up the little hood and tunic [tailored for] sizable to some poor consumptive child, and [made] horribly gaudy with spangles of tin? An Ill bred [soul] heart far [worse than] more dismal than any want of etiquette.Looking to the [outer] scrofulous politics [whose] of Europe, and what comes thence, [Men] folks think it [a] dismal [thing when the kings] that some king or kings daughter, [un] unseated from their thrones and exiled, should pine and linger, and be starved of the grand [pre] [sustenance which] honors and prerogatives of But all Greatness is simply development [Shall][ Does] The clothier comes supercilious [and swallow-tailed] and swallow tailed, [wh with] and flirts his measuring tape [and] [shears] for [the] my Soul --my soul [whose] that with far [stretching] bulging shoulders bursts the overcoat of the [universe] heavens as insupportably pinching and scant - [who takes fiery suns] [for toys, and soon wants some] [thing brighter;] - and [can] will the [swallow tailed gentlemen] loud promising gentleman duly send home to me nothing better than this little tunic for some poor consumptive child -- this baby hood, with spangles of tin?I think ten million supple [fingered] wristed gods are [perpetually employed] always hiding beauty in the world - bringing it every where [in] every thing - and most of all in spots that men and women do not think of and never look - as Death and Poverty and Wickedness. - Cache! and Cache again! all over the earth, and in the heavens that swathe the earth and in the waters of the sea.- They do their jobs well; those journeymen divine. Only from the Poet they can hide nothing and would not if they could. - I reckon he is Boss of Those gods; and the work they do is done for him; and all they leave concealed, they have concealed for his sake.-- Him they attend indoors and outdoors.-- They run ahead when he walks, and lift thin cunning covers and signify him with pointed stretched arms. Their President and their Pet! I see them lead him now.-- I see his large, slow gait - his face illuminated like the face of an arm=bound child Onward he moves with the gay procession and the laughing pioneers and the wild trilling bugles of joy.--