Dwell a while, and pass on—Be copious, temperate,
chaste, magnetic,
And what you effuse may then return as the seasons
return,
And may be just as much as the seasons.
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18.
Me imperturbe,
Me standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the
midst of irrational things,
Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles,
crimes, less important than I thought;
Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary all
these subordinate, (I am eternally equal with
the best—I am not subordinate;)
Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta,
or the Tennessee, or far north, or inland,
A river-man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life
of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes,
or Kanada,
Me, wherever my life is to be lived, to be self-balanced
for contingencies!
O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents,
rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
