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◈ LEAVES OF GRASS (풀잎) ◈
◇ BOOK XXXI ◇
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1855
월트 휘트먼 (Walt Whitman)
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1. BOOK XXXI

 

1.1. Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood

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Thou Mother with thy equal brood,
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Thou varied chain of different States, yet one identity only,
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A special song before I go I'd sing o'er all the rest,
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For thee, the future.
 
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I'd sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality,
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I'd fashion thy ensemble including body and soul,
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I'd show away ahead thy real Union, and how it may be accomplish'd.
 
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The paths to the house I seek to make,
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But leave to those to come the house itself.
 
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Belief I sing, and preparation;
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As Life and Nature are not great with reference to the present only,
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But greater still from what is yet to come,
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Out of that formula for thee I sing.
 
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As a strong bird on pinions free,
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Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
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Such be the thought I'd think of thee America,
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Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.
 
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The conceits of the poets of other lands I'd bring thee not,
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Nor the compliments that have served their turn so long,
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Nor rhyme, nor the classics, nor perfume of foreign court or indoor
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    library;
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But an odor I'd bring as from forests of pine in Maine, or breath of
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    an Illinois prairie,
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With open airs of Virginia or Georgia or Tennessee, or from Texas
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    uplands, or Florida's glades,
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Or the Saguenay's black stream, or the wide blue spread of Huron,
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With presentment of Yellowstone's scenes, or Yosemite,
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And murmuring under, pervading all, I'd bring the rustling sea-sound,
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That endlessly sounds from the two Great Seas of the world.
 
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And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother,
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Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted
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    for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee,
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Thou! mounting higher, diving deeper than we knew, thou
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    transcendental Union!
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By thee fact to be justified, blended with thought,
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Thought of man justified, blended with God,
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Through thy idea, lo, the immortal reality!
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Through thy reality, lo, the immortal idea!
 
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Brain of the New World, what a task is thine,
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To formulate the Modernout of the peerless grandeur of the modern,
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Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art,
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(Recast, may-be discard them, end themmaybe their work is done,
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    who knows?)
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By vision, hand, conception, on the background of the mighty past, the dead,
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To limn with absolute faith the mighty living present.
 
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And yet thou living present brain, heir of the dead, the Old World brain,
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Thou that lay folded like an unborn babe within its folds so long,
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Thou carefully prepared by it so longhaply thou but unfoldest it,
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    only maturest it,
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It to eventuate in theethe essence of the by-gone time contain'd in thee,
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Its poems, churches, arts, unwitting to themselves, destined with
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    reference to thee;
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Thou but the apples, long, long, long a-growing,
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The fruit of all the Old ripening to-day in thee.
 
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Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy,
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Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only,
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The Past is also stored in thee,
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Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western
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    continent alone,
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Earth's resume entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars,
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With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or
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    swim with thee,
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With all their ancient struggles, martyrs, heroes, epics, wars, thou
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    bear'st the other continents,
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Theirs, theirs as much as thine, the destination-port triumphant;
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Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye O helmsman, thou
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    carriest great companions,
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Venerable priestly Asia sails this day with thee,
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And royal feudal Europe sails with thee.
 
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Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes,
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Like a limitless golden cloud filling the westernr sky,
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Emblem of general maternity lifted above all,
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Sacred shape of the bearer of daughters and sons,
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Out of thy teeming womb thy giant babes in ceaseless procession issuing,
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Acceding from such gestation, taking and giving continual strength
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    and life,
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World of the realworld of the twain in one,
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World of the soul, born by the world of the real alone, led to
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    identity, body, by it alone,
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Yet in beginning only, incalculable masses of composite precious materials,
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By history's cycles forwarded, by every nation, language, hither sent,
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Ready, collected here, a freer, vast, electric world, to be
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    constructed here,
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(The true New World, the world of orbic science, morals, literatures
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    to come,)
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Thou wonder world yet undefined, unform'd, neither do I define thee,
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How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future?
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I feel thy ominous greatness evil as well as good,
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I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past,
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I see thy light lighting, and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe,
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But I do not undertake to define thee, hardly to comprehend thee,
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I but thee name, thee prophesy, as now,
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I merely thee ejaculate!
 
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Thee in thy future,
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Thee in thy only permanent life, career, thy own unloosen'd mind,
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    thy soaring spirit,
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Thee as another equally needed sun, radiant, ablaze, swift-moving,
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    fructifying all,
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Thee risen in potent cheerfulness and joy, in endless great hilarity,
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Scattering for good the cloud that hung so long, that weigh'd so
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    long upon the mind of man,
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The doubt, suspicion, dread, of gradual, certain decadence of man;
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Thee in thy larger, saner brood of female, malethee in thy
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    athletes, moral, spiritual, South, North, West, East,
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(To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, son,
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    endear'd alike, forever equal,)
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Thee in thy own musicians, singers, artists, unborn yet, but certain,
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Thee in thy moral wealth and civilization, (until which thy proudest
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    material civilization must remain in vain,)
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Thee in thy all-supplying, all-enclosing worshipthee in no single
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    bible, saviour, merely,
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Thy saviours countless, latent within thyself, thy bibles incessant
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    within thyself, equal to any, divine as any,
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(Thy soaring course thee formulating, not in thy two great wars, nor
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    in thy century's visible growth,
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But far more in these leaves and chants, thy chants, great Mother!)
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Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students,
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    born of thee,
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Thee in thy democratic fetes en-masse, thy high original festivals,
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    operas, lecturers, preachers,
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Thee in thy ultimate, (the preparations only now completed, the
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    edifice on sure foundations tied,)
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Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational
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    joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
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In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy
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    sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,
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These! these in thee, (certain to come,) to-day I prophesy.
 
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Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good
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    for thee,
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Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself,
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Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself.
 
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(Lo, where arise three peerless stars,
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To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, Freedom,
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Set in the sky of Law.)
 
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Land of unprecedented faith, God's faith,
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Thy soil, thy very subsoil, all upheav'd,
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The general inner earth so long so sedulously draped over, now hence
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    for what it is boldly laid bare,
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Open'd by thee to heaven's light for benefit or bale.
 
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Not for success alone,
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Not to fair-sail unintermitted always,
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The storm shall dash thy face, the murk of war and worse than war
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    shall cover thee all over,
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(Wert capable of war, its tug and trials? be capable of peace, its trials,
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For the tug and mortal strain of nations come at last in prosperous
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    peace, not war;)
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In many a smiling mask death shall approach beguiling thee, thou in
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    disease shalt swelter,
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The livid cancer spread its hideous claws, clinging upon thy
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    breasts, seeking to strike thee deep within,
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Consumption of the worst, moral consumption, shall rouge thy face
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    with hectic,
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But thou shalt face thy fortunes, thy diseases, and surmount them all,
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Whatever they are to-day and whatever through time they may be,
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They each and all shall lift and pass away and cease from thee,
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While thou, Time's spirals rounding, out of thyself, thyself still
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    extricating, fusing,
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Equable, natural, mystical Union thou, (the mortal with immortal blent,)
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Shalt soar toward the fulfilment of the future, the spirit of the
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    body and the mind,
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The soul, its destinies.
 
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The soul, its destinies, the real real,
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(Purport of all these apparitions of the real;)
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In thee America, the soul, its destinies,
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Thou globe of globes! thou wonder nebulous!
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By many a throe of heat and cold convuls'd, (by these thyself solidifying,)
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Thou mental, moral orbthou New, indeed new, Spiritual World!
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The Present holds thee notfor such vast growth as thine,
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For such unparallel'd flight as thine, such brood as thine,
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The FUTURE only holds thee and can hold thee.
 
 

1.2. A Paumanok Picture

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Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
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Ten fishermen waitingthey discover a thick school of mossbonkers
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    they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
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The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the
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    beach, enclosing the mossbonkers,
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The net is drawn in by a windlass by those who stop ashore,
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Some of the fishermen lounge in their boats, others stand
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    ankle-deep in the water, pois'd on strong legs,
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The boats partly drawn up, the water slapping against them,
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Strew'd on the sand in heaps and windrows, well out from the water,
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