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Leaves of Grass (1867)
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MEDIUMS.
| THEY shall arise in the States; |
They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happi-
ness;
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| They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos; |
| They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive; |
They shall be complete women and men—their pose
brawny and supple, their drink water, their
blood clean and clear;
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They shall enjoy materialism and the sight of products
—they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber,
bread-stuffs, of Chicago, the great city;
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They shall train themselves to go in public to become
orators and oratresses;
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Strong and sweet shall their tongues be—poems and
materials of poems shall come from their lives
—they shall be makers and finders;
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Of them, and of their works, shall emerge divine
conveyers, to convey gospels;
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Characters, events, retrospections, shall be convey'd
in gospels—Trees, animals, waters, shall be
convey'd,
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Death, the future, the invisible faith, shall all be con-
vey'd.
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