FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird, <br /> Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all; <br /> To the north betaking myself, to sing there arctic songs, <br /> To Kanada, till I absorb Kanada in myself--to Michigan then, <br /> To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are <br /> inimitable;) <br /> Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs--to Missouri and Kansas and <br /> Arkansas, to sing theirs, <br /> To Tennessee and Kentucky--to the Carolinas and Georgia, to sing <br /> theirs, <br /> To Texas, and so along up toward California, to roam accepted <br /> everywhere; <br /> To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum, if need be,) <br /> The idea of all--of the western world, one and inseparable. 10 <br /> And then the song of each member of These States.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-paumanok-starting/
