Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Sound Your Barbaric Yawp

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Stanza 52

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.
 
  
I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; 
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.1330
  
The last scud of day holds back for me; 
It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on the shadow’d wilds; 
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. 
  
I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the runaway sun; 
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.1335
  
I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love; 
If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles. 
  
You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean; 
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, 
And filter and fibre your blood.1340
  
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged; 
Missing me one place, search another; 
I stop somewhere, waiting for you.

Monday, May 2, 2011

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