Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize.