1. Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible,

I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States,

To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence.

To you, yet unborn, these, seeking you.

2. When you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible ;

Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my poems, seeking me.

Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover ;

Be it as if I were with you. Be not too certain but I am now with you.