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A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860) A BROADWAY PAGEANT.
(RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE 16, 1860.)
from your Western golden shores; The countries there, with their populations—the mil- lions millions
Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the
from your Western golden shores The countries there, with their populations—the mil- lions millions en-masse
sending messages over the archipelagoes to you; Bend your proud neck low for once, young Libertad. 9 Were
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the
from your Western golden shores, The countries there with their populations, the millions en-masse are
Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
To us, my city, Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides, to walk in the
from your Western golden shores, The countries there with their populations, the millions en-masse are
Were the children straying westward so long? so wide the tramping?
Were the precedent dim ages debouching westward from Paradise so long?
Were the centuries steadily footing it that way, all the while unknown, for you, for reasons?
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
American masses!
RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE, 1860. 1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous the
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
fool'd 114 Native Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Once I Pass'd through a Populous City
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-
(RECEPTION JAPANESE EMBASSY, JUNE 16, 1860.)
to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?
upon the angry bull, the majority of cultivated minds begin to see that Walt Whitman is the most American
of poets and one of the brightest lights of American literature.
of the West, the wind-swept "gray beach" of the Paumanok shore, or amid the eddying swarms of the city
There were plenty of criticisms to make, even after one had finished crying Oh!
Well worth quoting, before we leave the two great Americans, is what Walt says of Emerson: "Amid the
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
what were God?)
Y., South District)—renew'd (1883) 14 yrs. 2d ed'n 1856, Brooklyn—renew'd (1884) 14 yrs. 3d ed'n 1860
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
What does it mean to American persons, progresses, cities?
A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
that the book is not amenable to the laws against sending obscene literature through the mails; and were
and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city
declare that Walt Whitman has not the poet's gift in the slightest measure—that he is only an ignorant American
He could not have been bred anywhere but in a certain part of New York city a generation ago—in any other
And American letters were in a peculiar transition state when he made his first appearance in print,
partial draft of the poem eventually known as A Broadway Pageant, first published in the June 27, 1860