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Poem of Joys.
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1.O to make a most jubilant poem!
O full of music! Full of manhood, womanhood,
infancy!
O full of common employments! Full of grain and
trees.
2.O for the voices of animals! O for the swiftness and
balance of fishes!
O for the dropping of rain-drops in a poem!
O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a poem.
3.O to be on the sea! the wind, the wide waters
around;
O to sail in a ship under full sail at sea.
4.O the joy of my spirit! It is uncaged! It darts like
lightning!
It is not enough to have this globe, or a certain time
—I will have thousands of globes, and all time.
5.O the engineer's joys!
To go with a locomotive!
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