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24   I see the despondent red man in the west, lingering      about the banks of Moingo, and about Lake      Pepin;
He has heard the quail and beheld the honey-bee, and      sadly prepared to depart.
25  I see the regions of snow and ice;
I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn;
I see the seal-seeker in his boat, poising his lance;
I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge, drawn by      dogs;
I see the porpoise-hunters — I see the whale-crews of      the South Pacific and the North Atlantic;
I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys, of Switzer-     land — I mark the long winters, and the iso-     lation.
26  I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at      random a part of them;
I am a real Parisian;
I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Con-     stantinople;
I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne;
I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh,      Limerick;
I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons,      Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin,      Florence;
I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw — or northward      in Christiania or Stockholm — or in Siberian      Irkutsk — or in some street in Iceland;
I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them      again.