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Rh Dwell a while, and pass on—Be copious, temperate,
 * chaste, magnetic,

And what you effuse may then return as the seasons
 * return,

And may be just as much as the seasons.



imperturbe, Me standing at ease in Nature, Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the
 * midst of irrational things,

Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles,
 * crimes, less important than I thought;

Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary all
 * these subordinate, (I am eternally equal with
 * the best—I am not subordinate;)

Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta,
 * or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland,

A river-man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life
 * of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes,
 * or Kanada,

Me, wherever my life is to be lived, to be self-balanced
 * for contingencies!

O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents,
 * rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.