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for hand in hand! You natural persons old and young! You on the
 * Eastern Sea, and you on the Western!

You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and
 * bayous of the Mississippi!

You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! You twain! And all processions moving along the
 * streets!

I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it
 * common for you to walk hand in hand.



my love for the woman I love, O bride! wife! more resistless, more enduring
 * than I can tell, the thought of you!

Then separate, as disembodied, the purest born, The ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation, I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man, O sharer of my roving life.



with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for
 * fear I effuse unreturned love;

But now I think there is no unreturned love—the
 * pay is certain, one way or another,