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

I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality—on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2

is of consequence; Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part

of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands; All that is well thought or said this day on any part

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

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

employments, are you and me, Past, present, future, are you and me. 18 I swear I dare not shirk any part

of myself, Not any part of America, good or bad, Not the promulgation of Liberty—not to cheer up slaves

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

through the sod, and turn it up under- neath underneath ; I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 2

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick per- son person —Yet behold!

2 ('Tis while our army lines Carolina's sand and pines, Forth from thy hovel door, thou, Ethiopia, com'st

going with me leaves peace and routine behind him, And stakes his life, to be lost at any moment.) 2

heroes and martyrs, And when all life, and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be dis- charged discharged from that part

not so desperate at the battues of death—was not so shock'd at the repeated fusillades of the guns. 2

the blows strike revenge, or the heads of the nobles fall; The People scorn'd the ferocity of kings; 2

balk me, The pert apparel, the deform'd attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all these I part

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1871) SONGS OF PARTING.

whither or how long; Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my voice will suddenly cease. 2

Your horizon rises—I see it parting away for more august dramas; I see not America only—I see not only

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

2 Be it so, then I answer'd, I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than any

sailors young and old, haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read, In full rapport at last. 2

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions; One generation playing its part

, and passing on; Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd

let others ignore what they may; I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also; I am myself

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. 15 Whoever you are!

the wood, and become undis- guised undisguised and naked; I am mad for it to be in contact with me. 2

If I worship one thing more than another, it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it.

I take part—I see and hear the whole; The cries, curses, roar—the plaudits for well-aimed shots; The

List to the story as my grandmother's father, the sailor, told it to me.

is but a part.

is but a part.

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

THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY. VOLUNTEER OF 1861-2.

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

SONGS OF PARTING.

2 Be it so, then I answer'd, I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than any

sailors young and old, haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read, In full rapport at last. 2

—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

2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens; Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is pro

factories, palaces, hovels, huts of barbarians, tents of nomads, upon the surface; I see the shaded part

on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on the other side, I see the curious

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at ran- dom random a part of them; I am a real Parisian

all so dear to me—what you are, (whatever it is,) I become a part of that, whatever it is; Southward

Mannahatta in itself, Singing the song of These, my ever-united lands—my body no more inevitably united, part

to part, and made one identity, any more than my lands are inevitably united, and made ONE IDENTITY;

emblem, dabs of music; Fingers of the organist skipping staccato over the keys of the great organ. 2

it is impossible for me to get rid of them; I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.) 2

From all that has been near you, I believe you have im- parted imparted to yourselves, and now would

evident and amicable with me. 4 The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part

; The body does not travel as much as the soul; The body has just as great a work as the soul, and parts

All parts away for the progress of souls; All religion, all solid things, arts, governments,—all that

shore years hence, are more to me, and more in my medita- tions meditations , than you might suppose. 2

simple, compact, well-join'd scheme—myself disin- tegrated disintegrated , every one disintegrated, yet part

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

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

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

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I—it is You; We touch

and am all, and believe in all; I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true— I reject no part

Have I forgotten any part? Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.

his brother, and for men, and I an- swer answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs. 2

his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also; One part

does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they join.

; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in parts

2 The love of the Body of man or woman balks ac- count account —the body itself balks account; That of

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you; I believe

bones, and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say, these are not the parts

, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts

touch you, For I could not die till I once look'd on you, For I fear'd I might afterwards lose you. 2

(Now we have met, we have look'd, we are safe; Return in peace to the ocean, my love; I too am part of

shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play a part

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

brown hands, and the silent manner of me, without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting

at San Francisco, California, and asking what suits or claims are pending against the whole, or any part

excise imposed on malt consumed in Canada, but not on that article when exported here, does not form a part

Shelby, 16th Infantry, in any action that may be brought against him for the part taken by him in recovering

Conkling's fees will be allowed as a part of the compromise, but that the District Attorney can receive

views laid down by Attorney General Hoar in his letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, dated February 2,

Co's. fees. question of special counsel, &c May 2, 1870.— I wish to say further that under the Act of

Mabry, President. 2: The United States, . The East Tennessee and Georgia RR. Co. and Thomas H.

Sloss, its President. 2: The United States, .

The Commissioner, thinking there was evidence of guilt on the part of Davis, requested the U. S.

Perry, Esq. were retained by the War Department to conduct these suits, on the part of the United States

the Department of Justice makes it necessary that the further employment of special counsel on the part

As a general rule, this office leaves the conduct of prosecutions on the part of the United States to

Sir: I have received yours of this date, suggesting that the United States assume, in part at least,

slight, and too remote to authorize this Department to act upon the assumption that a liability on the part

—I will only add that in that opinion the validity of no part of the election in October, 1870, was considered

Information of similar fraudulent attempts comes to us often from all parts alleged attempt at swindling

—And examinations made ex parte are not likely to reach such correct results as examinations conducted

is plainly to be gathered that Congress intended to check the employment of special counsel on the part

the Act establishing the Department of Justice, to check the employment of Special Counsel on the part

Gillet, 2 November 1870

under our Government, is charged with the immediate direction of criminal and other proceedings on the part

John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

by wars of Italian unification, established the capital of the newly unified Italy at Rome on July 2,

Napoleon III was deposed and the French army surrendered on September 2, 1870.

Brooklyn September 2, 1870 .

Pete, there is nothing particular to write about this time—pretty much the same story—every day out on

Well, Pete, I am on the second month of my furlough—to think it is almost six weeks since we parted there

changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2

It is postmarked: "New-York | Sep | 2 | 6:30 P.M."

and am all, and believe in all: I believe Materialism is true, and Spiritualism is true—I reject no part

Spiritualism when it is united to Spiritualism; it is false, or rather defective only, when it is a mere part

2.