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Rh Off him pasturage sweet and natural as savanna,
 * upland, prairie,

Through him flights, songs, screams, answering those
 * of the wild-pigeon, coot, fish-hawk, qua-bird,
 * mocking-bird, condor, night-heron, eagle;

His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed
 * to good and evil,

Surrounding the essences of real things, old times
 * and present times,

Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red
 * aborigines,

Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, the
 * rapid stature and muscle,

The haughty defiance of the Year 1—war, peace,
 * the formation of the Constitution,

The separate States, the simple, elastic scheme, the
 * immigrants,

The Union, always swarming with blatherers, and
 * always calm and impregnable,

The unsurveyed interior, log-houses, clearings, wild
 * animals, hunters, trappers;

Surrounding the multiform agriculture, mines, temperature,
 * the gestation of new States,

Congress convening every Twelfth Month, the members
 * duly coming up from the uttermost parts;

Surrounding the noble character of mechanics
 * and farmers, especially the young men,

Responding their manners, speech, dress, friendships
 * —the gait they have of persons who never knew
 * how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors,

The freshness and candor of their physiognomy, the
 * copiousness and decision of their phrenology,

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