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63 See! steamers steaming
through my poems!
See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing;
See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village;
See, on the one side the Western Sea, and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems, as upon their own shores;
See, pastures and forests in my poems — See, animals, wild and tame — See, beyond the Kanzas, count- less herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass;
See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce;
See, the manypress — See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Man- hattan;
See, through Atlantica's depths, pulses American, Europe reaching — pulses of Europe, duly re- turn'd;
See, the strong and quick locomotive, as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle;
See, ploughmen, ploughing farms — See, miners, dig- ging mines — See, the numberless factories;
See, mechanics, busy at their benches, with tools — See from among them, superior judges, philo- sophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses;
See, lounging through the shops and fields of The States, me, well-beloved, close-held by day and night;
Hear the loud echoes of my songs there! Read the hints come at last.
See, in my poems immigrants continually coming and landing;
See, in arriere, the wigwam, the trail, the hunter's hut, the flat-boat, the maize-leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village;
See, on the one side the Western Sea, and on the other the Eastern Sea, how they advance and retreat upon my poems, as upon their own shores;
See, pastures and forests in my poems — See, animals, wild and tame — See, beyond the Kanzas, count- less herds of buffalo, feeding on short curly grass;
See, in my poems, cities, solid, vast, inland, with paved streets, with iron and stone edifices, ceaseless vehicles, and commerce;
See, the manypress — See, the electric telegraph, stretching across the Continent, from the Western Sea to Man- hattan;
See, through Atlantica's depths, pulses American, Europe reaching — pulses of Europe, duly re- turn'd;
See, the strong and quick locomotive, as it departs, panting, blowing the steam-whistle;
See, ploughmen, ploughing farms — See, miners, dig- ging mines — See, the numberless factories;
See, mechanics, busy at their benches, with tools — See from among them, superior judges, philo- sophs, Presidents, emerge, drest in working dresses;
See, lounging through the shops and fields of The States, me, well-beloved, close-held by day and night;
Hear the loud echoes of my songs there! Read the hints come at last.
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