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STILL THOUGH THE ONE I SING
STILL though the one I sing,
(One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality,
I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O
quenchless, indispensable fire!)
1871 1871
SHUT NOT YOUR DOORS
SHUT not your doors to me proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet
needed most, I bring,
Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made,
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing,
A book separate, not link'd with the rest nor felt by the
intellect,
But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page.
1865 1881
POETS TO COME
POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!
Not to-day is to justify me and answer what I am for,
But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater
than before known,
Arouse! for you must justify me.
I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,
I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.
I am a man who, sauntering along without fully stopping,
turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,
Leaving it to you to prove and define it,
Expecting the main things from you.
1860 1867
TO YOU
STRANGER, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me,
why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?
1860 1860
THOU READER
THOU reader throbbest life and pride and love the same as I,
Therefore for thee the following chants.
1881 1881
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