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Calamus 2 2.

resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers, While from some distant part

to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. 2

destin'd conqueror, yet treacherous lip-smiles everywhere, And death and infidelity at every step.) 2

west-bred face, To him the hereditary countenance bequeath'd both mother's and father's, His first parts

new States, Congress convening every Twelfth-month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts

I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America good or bad, Not to build for that which

with the power's pulsations, and the charm of my theme was upon me, Till the tissues that held me parted

boundless summer growths, O lavish brown parturient earth—O infinite teeming womb, A song to narrate thee. 2

forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part

The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him, Winter-grain sprouts and those

the day, The simple, compact, well-joined scheme—myself disintegrated, every one disintegrated, yet part

, floating with motionless wings, oscillating their bodies, I saw how the glistening yellow lit up parts

Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laugh- ing laughing , gnawing, sleeping, Played the part

play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!

toward eternity, Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the Soul.

pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunken- ness drunkenness , greed, premature death, all these I part

matter who they are, And when all life, and all the Souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, Then shall

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would

Thoughts 2 2.

flung out from the steeples of churches and from all the public buildings and stores, The tearful parting

, the mother kisses her son, the son kisses his mother, (Loth is the mother to part, yet not a word does

menacing might of the globe uprisen around me, Yet there with my soul I fed, I fed content, supercilious. 2

The Centenarian's Story. THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

Volunteer of 1861-2, (at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian.)

As wending the crowds now part and disperse—but we old man, Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we

eighty-five years a-gone no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends, But a battle which I took part

in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it, Walking then this hilltop, this same ground.

2 O maidens and young men I love and that love me, What you ask of my days those the strangest and sudden

sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, I see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.) 2

and the silent manner of me, with- out without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting

—No; But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of the crowd, parting the

part- ing parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately

spiritualism, and of the æsthetic, or intellectual, Who, having considered the body, finds all its organs and parts

I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect per- son person , that is finally right. 2.

Debris 2 ANY thing is as good as established, when that is established that will produce it and continue

that loves unrequited, the money- maker moneymaker , The actor and actress, those through with their parts

To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part!

To think that we are now here, and bear our part!

He was a good fellow, free-mouthed, quick-tempered, not bad-looking, able to take his own part, witty

faults and derelictions, 38* The light touches, on my lips, of the lips of my com- rades comrades , at parting

When America does what was promised, When each part is peopled with free people, When there is no city

inland and seaboard, When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

[A Long Island incident—early part of the present century.]

bearded—the stout-strong frame, Dress'd in its russet suit of good Scotch cloth: (Then what the told-out story

lessening—dimmer the forthgoer's visage and form, Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness—loth, O so loth to de- part

, I form'd the habit, and continued it to the end, whenever the ebb or flood tide began the latter part

before—some unsuspected author,) In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life, As part

"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest, Allah is all, all, all—is immanent

malignant, Venom and filth, serpents, the ravenous sharks, liars, the disso- lute dissolute ; (What is the part

what fluid, vast identity, Holding the universe with all its parts as one—as sailing in a ship?

On, on, and do your part, ye burying, ebbing tide! On for your time, ye furious debouché!

; Duly by you, from you, the tide and light again—duly the hinges turning, Duly the needed discord-parts

intentionless, the whole a nothing, And haply yet some drop within God's scheme's ensemble—some wave, or part

—tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part, To admiration has it been enacted!

art all the world's, the continents' entire— not yours alone, America, Europe's as well, in every part

the ceaseless ferry, faces and faces and faces, I see them and complain not, and am content with all. 2

thy notes, Now pouring, whirling like a tempest round me, Now low, subdued, now in the distance lost. 2

, Lone, sulky, through the time's thick murk looking in vain for light, for hope, From unsuspected parts

the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting

appointed days that forgive not, I dispense from this side judgments inexorable without the least remorse. 2

the present only, But greater still from what is yet to come, Out of that formula for thee I sing. 2

what was promis'd, When through these States walk a hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

accepting exulting in Death in its turn the same as life, The entrance of man to sing; To compact you, ye parted

Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas, I see not America only, not only Liberty's

advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts

all its horrors, serves, And how now or at any time each serves the exquisite transition of death. 2

, any thing is but a part.

2 Souls of men and women!

THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

2 Come forward O my soul, and let the rest retire, Listen, lose not, it is toward thee they tend, Parting

, To think that we are now here and bear our part. 2 Not a day passes, not a minute or second without

is but a part.

I swear I dare not shirk any part of myself, Not any part of America, good or bad, Not my body—not friendship

Recall ages—One age is but a part—ages are but a part; Recall the angers, bickerings, delusions, superstitions

What is prudence, is indivisible, Declines to separate one part of life from every part, Divides not

part- ing parting of dear friends, The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately