Walt Whitman (Уолт Уитмен)

Leaves of Grass. 24. Autumn Rivulets. 19. I Was Looking a Long While

I was looking a long while for Intentions,
For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these
      chants—and now I have found it,
It is not in those paged fables in the libraries, (them I neither
      accept nor reject,)
It is no more in the legends than in all else,
It is in the present—it is this earth to-day,
It is in Democracy—(the purport and aim of all the past,)
It is the life of one man or one woman to-day—the average man of to-day,
It is in languages, social customs, literatures, arts,
It is in the broad show of artificial things, ships, machinery,
      politics, creeds, modern improvements, and the interchange of nations,
All for the modern—all for the average man of to-day.

1. Leaves of Grass. 5. Calamus. 38. That Shadow My Likeness
2. Leaves of Grass. 20. By the Roadside. 28. Offerings
3. Leaves of Grass. 21. Drum-Taps. 35. How Solemn As One by One [Washington City, 1865]
4. Leaves of Grass. 35. Good-Bye My Fancy. 17. A Christmas Greeting
5. Leaves of Grass. 32. From Noon to Starry Night. 8. A Riddle Song

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