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27   I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries;
I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the pois-     on'd splint, the fetish, and the obi.
28  I see African and Asiatic towns;
I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo,      Monrovia;
I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi,      Calcutta, Yedo;
I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and      Ashantee-man in their huts;
I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo;
I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva, and      those of Herat;
I see Teheran — I see Muscat and Medina, and the      intervening sands — I see the caravans toiling      onward;
I see Egypt and the Egyptians — I see the pyramids      and obelisks;
I look on chisel'd histories, songs, philosophies, cut      in slabs of sand-stone, or on granite blocks;
I see at Memphis mummy-pits, containing mummies.      embalm'd, swathed in linen cloth, lying there      many centuries;
I look on the fall'n Theban, the large-ball'd eyes, the      side-drooping neck, the hands folded across the      breast.
29  I see the menials of the earth, laboring;
I see the prisoners in the prisons;
I see the defective human bodies of the earth;
I see the blind, the deaf and dumb, idiots, hunch-     backs, lunatics;
I see the pirates, thieves, betrayers, murderers, slave-     makers of the earth;
I see the helpless infants, and the helpless old men      and women.
30   I see male and female everywhere;
I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs;
I see the constructiveness of my race;
I see the results of the perseverance and industry of      my race;
I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations — I go      among them — I mix indiscriminately,
And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.