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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Now List To My Morning's Romanza</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">NOW list to my morning's romanza--I tell the signs of the Answerer;<br> To the cities and farms I sing, as they spread in the sunshine before<br> me.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> A young man comes to me bearing a message from his brother;<br> How shall the young man know the whether and when of his brother?<br> Tell him to send me the signs.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> And I stand before the young man face to face, and take his right<br> hand in my left hand, and his left hand in my right hand,<br> And I answer for his brother, and for men, and I answer for him that<br> answers for all, and send these signs.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br> Him all wait for--him all yield up to--his word is decisive and<br> final,<br> Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive themselves, as amid<br> light,<br> Him they immerse, and he immerses them.  10</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the landscape, people,<br> animals,<br> The profound earth and its attributes, and the unquiet ocean, (so<br> tell I my morning's romanza;)<br> All enjoyments and properties, and money, and whatever money will<br> buy,<br> The best farms--others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably<br> reaps,<br> The noblest and costliest cities--others grading and building, and he<br> domiciles there;<br> Nothing for any one, but what is for him--near and far are for him,<br> the ships in the offing,<br> The perpetual shows and marches on land, are for him, if they are for<br> any body.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> He puts things in their attitudes;<br> He puts to-day out of himself, with plasticity and love;<br> He places his own city, times, reminiscences, parents, brothers and<br> sisters, associations, employment, politics, so that the rest<br> never shame them afterward, nor assume to command them. 20</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> He is the answerer:<br> What can be answer'd he answers--and what cannot be answer'd, he<br> shows how it cannot be answer'd.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br> A man is a summons and challenge;<br> (It is vain to skulk--Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you<br> hear the ironical echoes?)</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride,<br> beat up and down, seeking to give satisfaction;<br> He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and<br> down also.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly<br> and gently and safely, by day or by night;<br> He has the pass-key of hearts--to him the response of the prying of<br> hands on the knobs.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> His welcome is universal--the flow of beauty is not more welcome or<br> universal than he is;<br> The person he favors by day, or sleeps with at night, is blessed. 30</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br> Every existence has its idiom--everything has an idiom and tongue;<br> He resolves all tongues into his own, and bestows it upon men, and<br> any man translates, and any man translates himself also;<br> One part does not counteract another part--he is the joiner--he sees<br> how they join.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> He says indifferently and alike, How are you, friend? to the<br> President at his levee,<br> And he says, Good-day, my brother! to Cudge that hoes in the sugar-<br> field,<br> And both understand him, and know that his speech is right.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> He walks with perfect ease in the Capitol,<br> He walks among the Congress, and one Representative says to another,<br> Here is our equal, appearing and new.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Then the mechanics take him for a mechanic,<br> And the soldiers suppose him to be a soldier, and the sailors that he<br> has follow'd the sea,   40<br> And the authors take him for an author, and the artists for an<br> artist,<br> And the laborers perceive he could labor with them and love them;<br> No matter what the work is, that he is the one to follow it, or has<br> follow'd it,<br> No matter what the nation, that he might find his brothers and<br> sisters there.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> The English believe he comes of their English stock,<br> A Jew to the Jew he seems--a Russ to the Russ--usual and near,<br> removed from none.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Whoever he looks at in the traveler's coffee-house claims him,<br> The Italian or Frenchman is sure, and the German is sure, and the<br> Spaniard is sure, and the island Cuban is sure;<br> The engineer, the deck-hand on the great lakes, or on the<br> Mississippi, or St. Lawrence, or Sacramento, or Hudson, or<br> Paumanok Sound, claims him.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> The gentleman of perfect blood acknowledges his perfect blood; 50<br> The insulter, the prostitute, the angry person, the beggar, see<br> themselves in the ways of him--he strangely transmutes them,<br> They are not vile any more--they hardly know themselves, they are so<br> grown.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a></strong></div>