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44 One of the great nation, the nation of many nations,
 * the smallest the same, and the largest the same,

A southerner soon as a northerner, a planter nonchalant
 * and hospitable,

A Yankee, bound my own way, ready for trade, my
 * joints the limberest joints on earth and the
 * sternest joints on earth,

A Kentuckian, walking the vale of the Elkhorn in
 * my deer-skin leggings,

A boatman over lakes or bays, or along coasts—a
 * Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye,

A Louisianian or Georgian—a Poke-easy from sand-
 * hills and pines,

At home on Kanadian snow-shoes, or up in the bush,
 * or with fishermen off Newfoundland,

At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest,
 * and tacking,

At home on the hills of Vermont, or in the woods
 * of Maine, or the Texan ranch,

Comrade of Californians—comrade of free north-
 * westerners, and loving their big proportions,

Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen—comrade of all
 * who shake hands and welcome to drink and
 * meat,

A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thought-
 * fullest,

A novice beginning, yet experient of myriads of
 * seasons,

Of every hue, trade, rank, caste and religion, Not merely of the New World, but of Africa, Europe,
 * Asia—a wandering savage,

A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, lover,
 * quaker,