I Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to
you.
I Celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to
you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of
summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from
this soil,
this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the
same, and
their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health
begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are,
but never
forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at
every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy.