.<\/p>\n
To conclude, I announce what comes after me.<\/p>\n
I remember I said before my leaves sprang at all,
\nI would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations.<\/p>\n
When America does what was promis’d,
\nWhen through these States walk a hundred millions of super persons,
\nWhen the rest part away for superb persons and contribute to them,
\nWhen breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America,
\nThen to me and mine our due fruition.<\/p>\n
I have press’d through in my own right,
\nI have sung the body and the soul, war and peace have I sung, and the songs of life and death,
\nAnd the songs of birth, and shown that there are many births.<\/p>\n
I have offer’d my style to every one, I have journey’d with confident step; I announce natural persons to arise, I announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unloosen’d, I announce a man or woman coming, perhaps you are the one, (So long!)<\/em> I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, O thicker and faster—(So long!)<\/em> Hasten throat and sound your last, Screaming electric, the atmosphere using, What is there more, that I lag and pause and crouch extended with unshut mouth? My songs cease, I abandon them, Camerado, this is no book, O how your fingers drowse me, Dear friend whoever you are take this kiss. . To conclude, I announce what comes after me. I remember I said before my leaves sprang at all, I would raise my voice jocund and strong with reference to consummations. When America does what was promis’d, When through these States walk a hundred millions of super persons, When the rest part away for superb … Continue reading “So Long! By Walt Whitman”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhile my pleasure is yet at the full I whisper So long!<\/em>
\nAnd take the young woman’s hand and the young man’s hand for the last time.<\/p>\n
\nI announce justice triumphant,
\nI announce uncompromising liberty and equality,
\nI announce the justification on candor and the justification of pride.
\nI announce that identity of these States is a single identity only,
\nI announce the Union more and more compact, indissoluble,
\nI announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth insignificant.<\/p>\n
\nI say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.<\/p>\n
\nI announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully arm’d.<\/p>\n
\nI announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet is translation.
\nI announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded,
\nI announce a race of splendid and savage old men.<\/p>\n
\nO crowding too close upon me,
\nI foresee too much, it means more than I thought,
\nIt appears to me I am dying.<\/p>\n
\nSalute me—salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more.<\/p>\n
\nAt random glancing, each as I notice absorbing,
\nSwiftly on, but a little while alighting,
\nCurious envelop’d messages delivering,
\nSparkles hot, seed ethereal down in the dirt dropping,
\nMyself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring,
\nTo ages and ages yet the growth of the seed leaving,
\nTo troops out of the war arising, they the tasks I have set promulging,
\nTo women certain whispers of myself bequeathing, their affection me more clearly explaining,
\nTo young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their brains trying,
\nSo I pass, a little time vocal, visible, contrary,
\nAfterward a melodious echo, passionately bent for, (death making me really undying,)
\nThe best of me then when no longer visible, for toward that I have been incessantly preparing.<\/p>\n
\nIs there a single final farewell?<\/p>\n
\nFrom behind the screen where I hid I advance personally solely to you.<\/p>\n
\nWho touches this touches a man,
\n(Is it night? Are we here together alone?)
\nIt is I you hold and who holds you,
\nI spring from the pages into your arms—decease calls me forth.<\/p>\n
\nYour breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my ears,
\nI feel emerged from head to foot,
\nDelicious, enough.<\/p>\n
\nI give it especially to you, do not forget me,
\nI feel like the one who has done work for the day to retire awhile,
\nI receive now and again of my many translations, from my avatars ascending, while others doubtless await me,
\nAn unknown sphere more real than I dream’d, more direct, darts awakening rays about me, So Long!<\/em>
\nRemember my words, I may again return,
\nI love you, I depart from materials,
\nI am as one disembodied, triumphant, dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"