37.
A Leaf for hand in hand!
You natural persons old and young ! You on the Eastern Sea, and you on the Western !
You on the Mississippi, and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi !
You friendly boatmen and mechanics ! You roughs !
You twain ! And all processions moving along the streets !
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
38.
Primeval my love for the woman I love,
O bride ! wife ! more resistless, more enduring than I can tell, the thought of you !
Then separate, as disembodied, the purest born,
The ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation,
I ascend — I float in the regions of your love, man, sharer of my roving life.
39.
Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturned love ;
But now I think there is no unreturned love — the pay is certain, one way or another,