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, fresh, savage, Fluent, luxuriant, self-content, fond of persons and
 * places,

Fond of fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Fond of the sea—lusty-begotten and various, Boy of the Mannahatta, the city of ships, my city, Or raised inland, or of the south savannas, Or full-breath'd on Californian air, or Texan or
 * Cuban air,

Tallying, vocalizing all—resounding Niagara—
 * resounding Missouri,

Or rude in my home in Kanuck woods, Or wandering and hunting, my drink water, my diet
 * meat,

Or withdrawn to muse and meditate in some deep
 * recess,

Far from the clank of crowds, an interval passing,
 * rapt and happy,

Stars, vapor, snow, the hills, rocks, the Fifth Month
 * flowers, my amaze, my love, Rh