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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535123" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So Long</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TO conclude--I announce what comes after me;<br> I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the<br> present, depart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I remember I said, before my leaves sprang at all,<br> I would raise my voice jocund and strong, with reference to<br> consummations.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> When America does what was promis'd,<br> When there are plentiful athletic bards, inland and seaboard,<br> When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons,<br> When the rest part away for superb persons, and contribute to them,<br> When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,<br> Then to me and mine our due fruition.  10</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I have press'd through in my own right,<br> I have sung the Body and the Soul--War and Peace have I sung,<br> And the songs of Life and of Birth--and shown that there are many<br> births:<br> I have offer'd my style to everyone--I have journey'd with confident<br> step;<br> While my pleasure is yet at the full, I whisper, So long!<br> And take the young woman's hand, and the young man's hand, for the<br> last time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> I announce natural persons to arise;<br> I announce justice triumphant;<br> I announce uncompromising liberty and equality;<br> I announce the justification of candor, and the justification of<br> pride.    20</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I announce that the identity of These States is a single identity<br> only;<br> I announce the Union more and more compact, indissoluble;<br> I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics<br> of the earth insignificant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I announce adhesiveness--I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd;<br> I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I announce a man or woman coming--perhaps you are the one, (So long!)<br> I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste,<br> affectionate, compassionate, fully armed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold;<br> I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its<br> translation;<br> I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded; 30<br> I announce a race of splendid and savage old men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> O thicker and faster! (So long!)<br> O crowding too close upon me;<br> I foresee too much--it means more than I thought;<br> It appears to me I am dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hasten throat, and sound your last!<br> Salute me--salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Screaming electric, the atmosphere using,<br> At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,<br> Swiftly on, but a little while alighting,  40<br> Curious envelop'd messages delivering,<br> Sparkles hot, seed ethereal, down in the dirt dropping,<br> Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,<br> To ages, and ages yet, the growth of the seed leaving,<br> To troops out of me, out of the army, the war arising--they the tasks<br> I have set promulging,<br> To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing--their affection me<br> more clearly explaining,<br> To young men my problems offering--no dallier I--I the muscle of<br> their brains trying,<br> So I pass--a little time vocal, visible, contrary;<br> Afterward, a melodious echo, passionately bent for--(death making me<br> really undying;)<br> The best of me then when no longer visible--for toward that I have<br> been incessantly preparing.   50</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch extended with<br> unshut mouth?<br> Is there a single final farewell?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> My songs cease--I abandon them;<br> From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally, solely to<br> you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Camerado! This is no book;<br> Who touches this, touches a man;<br> (Is it night? Are we here alone?)<br> It is I you hold, and who holds you;<br> I spring from the pages into your arms--decease calls me forth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O how your fingers drowse me!   60<br> Your breath falls around me like dew--your pulse lulls the tympans of<br> my ears;<br> I feel immerged from head to foot;<br> Delicious--enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Enough, O deed impromptu and secret!<br> Enough, O gliding present! Enough, O summ'd-up past!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Dear friend, whoever you are, take this kiss,<br> I give it especially to you--Do not forget me;<br> I feel like one who has done work for the day, to retire awhile;<br> I receive now again of my many translations--from my avataras<br> ascending--while others doubtless await me;  70<br> An unknown sphere, more real than I dream'd, more direct, darts<br> awakening rays about me--So long!<br> Remember my words--I may again return,<br> I love you--I depart from materials;<br> I am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q>
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