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suffice me�O if I could but obtain knowledge! Then engrossed me�the south savannas engrossed me�For them I would live �I would be their orator; Then I met the examples of old and new heroes�I heard warriors, sailors, and all dauntless persons�And it seemed to me I too had it in me to be as dauntless as any, and would be so; And then to finish all, it came to me to strike up the songs of the New World�And then I believed my life must be spent in singing; But now take notice, Land of the prairies, Land of the south savannas, Ohio's land, |
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Take notice, you Kanuck woods�and you, Lake Huron�and all that with you roll toward Niagara�and you Niagara also, And you, Californian mountains�that you all find some one else that he be your singer of songs, For I can be your singer of songs no longer � I have ceased to enjoy them. I have found him who loves me, as I him in perfect love, With the rest I dispense�I sever from all that I thought would suffice me, for it does not--it is now empty and tasteless to me, I heed knowledge, and the grandeur of The States, and the examples of heroes, no more, |
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I am indifferent to my own songs�I am to
go with him I love, and he is to go with me, It is to be enough for each of us that we are together�We never separate again. - |
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