ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, <br /> Master of all, or mistress of all--aplomb in the midst of irrational <br /> things, <br /> Imbued as they--passive, receptive, silent as they, <br /> Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less <br /> important than I thought; <br /> Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary--all these subordinate, <br /> (I am eternally equal with the best--I am not subordinate;) <br /> Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or <br /> far north, or inland, <br /> A river man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life in These <br /> States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, <br /> Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be <br /> self-balanced for <br /> contingencies! <br /> O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as <br /> the trees and animals do.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/me-imperturbe/
