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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535243" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>With Antecedents</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WITH antecedents;<br> With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages;<br> With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am:<br> With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome;<br> With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb, and the Saxon;<br> With antique maritime ventures,--with laws, artizanship, wars and<br> journeys;<br> With the poet, the skald, the saga, the myth, and the oracle;<br> With the sale of slaves--with enthusiasts--with the troubadour, the<br> crusader, and the monk;<br> With those old continents whence we have come to this new continent;<br> With the fading kingdoms and kings over there;  10<br> With the fading religions and priests;<br> With the small shores we look back to from our own large and present<br> shores;<br> With countless years drawing themselves onward, and arrived at these<br> years;<br> You and Me arrived--America arrived, and making this year;<br> This year! sending itself ahead countless years to come.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> O but it is not the years--it is I--it is You;<br> We touch all laws, and tally all antecedents;<br> We are the skald, the oracle, the monk, and the knight--we easily<br> include them, and more;<br> We stand amid time, beginningless and endless--we stand amid evil and<br> good;<br> All swings around us--there is as much darkness as light; 20<br> The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us;<br> Its sun, and its again, all swing around us.<br> As for me, (torn, stormy, even as I, amid these vehement days,)<br> I have the idea of all, and am all, and believe in all;<br> I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true--I reject no<br> part.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Have I forgotten any part?<br> Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews;<br> I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demi-god;<br> I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without<br> exception;    30<br> I assert that all past days were what they should have been;<br> And that they could no-how have been better than they were,<br> And that to-day is what it should be--and that America is,<br> And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> In the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Past,<br> And in the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Present<br> time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I know that the past was great, and the future will be great,<br> And I know that both curiously conjoint in the present time,<br> (For the sake of him I typify--for the common average man's sake--<br> your sake, if you are he;)<br> And that where I am, or you are, this present day, there is the<br> centre of all days, all races,  40<br> And there is the meaning, to us, of all that has ever come of races<br> and days, or ever will come.</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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 With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages;
 With all which, had it not been, I would not now be here, as I am:
 With Egypt, India, Phenicia, Greece and Rome;
 With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb, and t..."></div>
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