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European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were
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
European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were
what life, what joy and pride, With all the perils were yours.)
How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbu- lent turbulent , wilful, as I love them
to city, joining, sounding, passing, Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night.
announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd, I say you shall yet find the friend you were
European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were
what life, what joy and pride, With all the perils were yours.)
How the great cities appear—how the Democratic masses, turbu- lent turbulent , wilful, as I love them
to city, joining, sounding, passing, Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night.
announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen'd, I say you shall yet find the friend you were
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?)
European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were
These corrections were probably intended for the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass.
circles in and around Boston were startled by the tidings that Emerson—whose incredulity concerning
had ever before written or sung, whichever you like to call it, he fancied he saw a pioneer, as it were
of the forms and symbols of life: now funeral, now carnival; or, again, a masquerade of nations, cities
cities, and fit to have for his background and accessories their streaming populations and ample and
The father was a farmer, and afterwards a carpenter and builder, and both the father and mother were
He famously remaked, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American
play, or looks at an American picture or statue?"
kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) —Never were
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?
kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) —Never were
results of the war glorious and inevitable—and they again leading to other results;) How the great cities
there—of happiness in those high plateaus, ranging three thousand miles, warm and cold; Of mighty inland cities
of the Western Sea; As I roam'd the streets of inland Chicago—whatever streets I have roam'd; Or cities
WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
instances, to shock many people, and contains specimens of every thing that is characteristic in the American
speaking, an abhorrence; but in this case several chance expressions which Walt Whitman permitted himself were
so very rude that his poems, as a whole, were deprived of that fair judgment which by rights belongs
European kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were
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?