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248 Others traverse the Zuyder Zee, or the Scheld, Others add to the exits and entrances at Sandy Hook, Others to the comers and goers at Gibraltar, or the
 * Dardanelles,

Others sternly push their way through the northern
 * winter-packs

Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena, Others the Niger or the Congo—others the Indus,
 * the Burampooter and Cambodia,

Others wait at the wharves of Manahatta, steamed up,
 * ready to start,

Wait, swift and swarthy, in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon,
 * Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bourdeaux, the
 * Hague, Copenhagen,

Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama, Wait at their moorings at Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
 * Charleston, New Orleans, Galveston, San
 * Francisco.

I see the tracks of the rail-roads of the earth, I see them welding State to State, city to city, through
 * North America;

I see them in Great Britain, I see them in Europe, I see them in Asia and in Africa.

I see the electric telegraphs of the earth, I see the filaments of the news of the wars, deaths,
 * losses, gains, passions, of my race.

I see the long river-stripes of the earth, I see where the Mississippi flows—I see where the
 * Columbia flows,