So Long by Walt Whitman Lyrics

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To conclude—I announce what comes after me;
I announce mightier offspring, orators, days, and then, for the present, depart

I remember I said, before my leaves sprang at all
I would raise my voice jocund and strong, with reference to consummations

When America does what was promis’d
When there are plentiful athletic bards, inland and seaboard
When through These States walk a hundred millions of superb persons
When the rest part away for superb persons, and contribute to them
When breeds of the most perfect mothers denote America
Then to me and mine our due fruition

I have press’d through in my own right
I have sung the Body and the Soul—War and Peace have I sung
And the songs of Life and of Birth—and shown that there are many births:
I have offer’d my style to everyone—I have journey’d with confident step;
While my pleasure is yet at the full, I whisper, So long!
And take the young woman’s hand, and the young man’s hand, for the last time

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I announce natural persons to arise;
I announce justice triumphant;
I announce uncompromising liberty and equality;
I announce the justification of candor, and the justification of pride
I announce that the identity of These States is a single identity only;
I announce the Union more and more compact, indissoluble;
I announce splendors and majesties to make all the previous politics of the earth
Insignificant

I announce adhesiveness—I say it shall be limitless, unloosen’d;
I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for

I announce a man or woman coming—perhaps you are the one, (So long!)
I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate
Compassionate, fully armed

I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold;
I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation;
I announce myriads of youths, beautiful, gigantic, sweet-blooded;
I announce a race of splendid and savage old men

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O thicker and faster! (So long!)
O crowding too close upon me;
I foresee too much—it means more than I thought;
It appears to me I am dying

Hasten throat, and sound your last!
Salute me—salute the days once more. Peal the old cry once more
Screaming electric, the atmosphere using
At random glancing, each as I notice absorbing
Swiftly on, but a little while alighting
Curious envelop’d messages delivering
Sparkles hot, seed ethereal, down in the dirt dropping
Myself unknowing, my commission obeying, to question it never daring
To ages, and ages yet, the growth of the seed leaving
To troops out of me, out of the army, the war arising—they the tasks I have
Set promulging
To women certain whispers of myself bequeathing—their affection me more
Clearly explaining
To young men my problems offering—no dallier I—I the muscle of their
Brains trying
So I pass—a little time vocal, visible, contrary;
Afterward, a melodious echo, passionately bent for—(death making me really
Undying;)
The best of me then when no longer visible—for toward that I have been
Incessantly preparing

What is there more, that I lag and pause, and crouch extended with unshut mouth?
Is there a single final farewell?

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My songs cease—I abandon them;
From behind the screen where I hid I advance personally, solely to you