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114 The picturesque looseness of their carriage, their
 * deathless attachment to freedom, their fierceness
 * when wronged,

The fluency of their speech, their delight in music,
 * their curiosity, good temper, and open-handedness
 * —the whole composite make,

The prevailing ardor and enterprise, the large amativeness, The perfect equality of the female with the male, the
 * fluid movement of the population,

The superior marine, free commerce, fisheries,
 * whaling, gold-digging,

Wharf-hemmed cities, railroad and steamboat lines,
 * intersecting all points,

Factories, mercantile life, labor-saving machinery, the
 * north-east, north-west, south-west,

Manhattan firemen, the Yankee swap, southern plantation
 * life,

Slavery, the tremulous spreading of hands to shelter
 * it—the stern opposition to it, which ceases only
 * when it ceases.

For these and the like, their own voices! For these,
 * space ahead!

Others take finish, but the Republic is ever constructive,
 * and ever keeps vista;

Others adorn the past—but you, O, days of the
 * present, I adorn you!

O days of the future, I believe in you! O America, because you build for mankind, I build
 * for you!

O well-beloved stone-cutters! I lead them who plan
 * with decision and science,