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make a most jubilant poem! O full of music! Full of manhood, womanhood,
 * infancy!

O full of common employments! Full of grain and
 * trees.

O for the voices of animals! O for the swiftness and
 * balance of fishes!

O for the dropping of rain-drops in a poem! O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a poem.

O to be on the sea! the wind, the wide waters
 * around;

O to sail in a ship under full sail at sea.

O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts like
 * lightning!

It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time
 * —I will have thousands of globes, and all time.

O the engineer's joys! To go with a locomotive! (259)