Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading where-ever I choose!
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.
The earth—that is sufficient,
I do not want the constellations3 any nearer,
I know they are very well where they are,
I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,
I carry them, men and women—I carry them with me wherever I go,
[Pg 144]I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,
I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.
You road I travel and look around! I believe you are not all that is here!
I believe that something unseen is also here.
Here is the profound lesson of reception, neither preference or denial;
The birth, the hasting after the physician, the beggar's tramp, the drunkard's stagger, the laughing party of mechanics,
The escaped youth, the rich person's carriage, the fop, the eloping couple,
The early market-man, the hearse, the moving of furniture into the town, the return back from the town,
They pass, I also pass, any thing passes, none can be interdicted6,
None but are accepted, none but are dear to me.
You air that serves me with breath to speak!
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
[Pg 145]You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the road-sides!
I think you are latent with curious existences—you are so dear to me.
You rows of houses! you window-pierced fa?ades! you roofs!
You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards!
You windows whose transparent12 shells might expose so much!
You grey stones of interminable pavements! you trodden crossings!
From all that has been near you I believe you have imparted to yourselves, and now would impart the same secretly to me,
From the living and the dead I think you have peopled your impassive surfaces, and the spirits thereof would be evident and amicable14 with me.
The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
The picture alive, every part in its best light,
The music falling in where it is wanted, and stopping where it is not wanted,
[Pg 146]The cheerful voice of the public road—the gay fresh sentiment of the road.
O highway I travel! O public road! Do you say to me, Do not leave me?
Do you say, Venture not?—If you leave me you are lost?
Do you say, I am already prepared—I am well beaten and undenied—adhere to me?
O public road! I say back I am not afraid to leave you—yet I love you,
You express me better than I can express myself,
You shall be more to me than my poem.
I think heroic deeds were all conceived in the open air,
I think I could stop here myself and do miracles,
I think whoever I see must be happy.
From this hour, freedom!
Going where I list—my own master, total and absolute,
Listening to others, considering well what they say,
[Pg 147]Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating18.
The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.
I am larger than I thought!
I did not know I held so much goodness!
All seems beautiful to me,
I can repeat over to men and women, You have done such good to me, I would do the same to you,
I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
Whoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.
Now if a thousand perfect men were to appear, it would not amaze me,
Now if a thousand beautiful forms of women appear'd, it would not astonish me.
[Pg 148]Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air, and eat and sleep with the earth.
Here a great personal deed has room,
(Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,
Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms laws and mocks all authority and all argument against it.)
Here is the test of wisdom,
Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,
Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible23 of proof, is its own proof,
Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content,
Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.
Now I re-examine philosophies and religions,
They may prove well in lecture-rooms, yet not prove at all under the spacious27 clouds and along the landscape and flowing currents.
[Pg 149]Here is realization28,
Here is a man tallied—he realizes here what he has in him,
Where is he who tears off the husks for you and me?
Do you know what it is as you pass to be loved by strangers?
Do you know the talk of those turning eyeballs?
Here is the efflux of the soul,
The efflux of the soul comes from within through embower'd gates, ever provoking questions.
These yearnings why are they? these thoughts in the darkness why are they?
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood?
[Pg 150]Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious37 thoughts descend38 upon me?
(I think they hang there winter and summer on those trees and almost drop fruit as I pass;)
What is it I interchange so suddenly with strangers?
What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side?
What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as I walk by and pause?
What gives me to be free to a woman's and man's good-will? what gives them to be free to mine?
The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness.
Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.
Here rises the fluid and attaching character,
The fluid and attaching character is the freshness and sweetness of man and woman,
(The herbs of the morning sprout40 no fresher and sweeter every day out of the roots of themselves, than it sprouts41 fresh and sweet continually out of itself.)
From it falls distill'd the charm that mocks beauty and attainments43,
Allons! whoever you are come travel with me.
Travelling with me you find what never tires.
The earth never tires,
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, Nature is rude and incomprehensible at first,
Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd,
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Allons! we must not stop here,
However shelter'd this port and however calm these waters we must not anchor here,
However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to receive it but a little while.
Allons! the inducements shall be greater,
We will sail pathless and wild seas,
[Pg 152]We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements,
Allons! from all formulas!
From your formulas, O bat-eyed and materialistic48 priests.
Allons! yet take warning!
He travelling with me needs the best blood, thews, endurance,
None may come to the trial till he or she bring courage and health,
Come not here if you have already spent the best of yourself,
Only those may come who come in sweet and determined50 bodies,
We convince by our presence.)
Listen! I will be honest with you,
I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes,
[Pg 153]These are the days that must happen to you:
You shall not heap up what is call'd riches:
You but arrive at the city to which you were destin'd, you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction before you are call'd by an irresistible53 call to depart,
What beckonings of love you receive you shall only answer with passionate55 kisses of parting,
You shall not allow the hold of those who spread their reach'd hands toward you.
Allons! after the great Companions, and to belong to them!
Enjoyers of calms of seas and storms of seas,
Sailors of many a ship, walkers of many a mile of land,
Pausers and contemplators of tufts, blossoms, shells of the shore,
[Pg 154]Dancers at wedding-dances, kissers of brides, tender helpers of children, bearers of children,
Journeyers over consecutive61 seasons, over the years, the curious years each emerging from that which preceded it,
Journeyers as with companions, namely their own diverse phases,
Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsurpass'd, content,
Old age, flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless,
To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights,
[Pg 155]Again to merge them in the start of superior journeys,
To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
To look up or down the road but it stretches and waits for you, however long but it stretches and waits for you,
To see no possession but may possess it, enjoying all without labour or purchase, abstracting the feast yet not abstracting one particle of it,
To take the best of the farmer's farm and the rich man's elegant villa67, and the chaste68 blessings69 of the well-married couple, and the fruits of orchards70 and flowers of gardens,
To take to your use out of the compact cities as you pass through,
To gather the minds of men out of their brains as you encounter them, to gather the love out of their hearts.
To take your lovers on the road with you, for all that you leave them behind you,
To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for travelling souls.
[Pg 156]All parts away for the progress of souls,
All religion, all solid things, arts, governments—all that was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, falls into niches72 and corners before the procession of souls along the grand roads of the universe.
Of the progress of the souls of men and women along the grand roads of the universe, all other progress is the needed emblem73 and sustenance74.
Forever alive, forever forward,
Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by men, rejected by men,
They go! they go! I know that they go, but I know not where they go,
But I know that they go toward the best—toward something great.
Whoever you are, come forth! or man or woman come forth!
You must not stay sleeping and dallying76 there in the house, though you built it, or though it has been built for you.
Out of the dark confinement77! out from behind the screen!
It is useless to protest, I know all and expose it.
[Pg 157]Through the laughter, dancing, dining, supping of people,
No husband, no wife, no friend, trusted to hear the confession80,
In the cars of railroads, in steamboats, in the public assembly,
Home to the houses of men and women, at the table, in the bed-room, everywhere,
Smartly attired83, countenance84 smiling, form upright, death under the breast-bones, hell under the skull-bones,
Under the broadcloth and gloves, under the ribbons and artificial flowers,
Speaking of anything else, but never of itself.
Allons! through struggles and wars!
The goal that was named cannot be countermanded86.
Have the past struggles succeeded?
What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature?
[Pg 158]Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
My call is the call of the battle, I nourish active rebellion,
He going with me must go well arm'd,
He going with me goes often with spare diet, poverty, angry enemies, desertions.
Allons! the road is before us!
It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well—be not detain'd!
Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen'd!
Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn'd!
Let the school stand! mind not the cry of the teacher!
Let the preacher preach in his pulpit! let the lawyer plead in the court, and the judge expound87 the law.
Camerado, I will give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself before preaching or law;
Will you give me yourself? will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?
Walt Whitman.
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realization
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