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Nor my material body which finally loves, walks,
laughs, shouts, embraces, procreates.

28.O the farmer's joys!
Ohioan's, Illinoisian's, Wisconsinese', Kanadian's, Iowan's,
Kansian's, Missourian's, Oregonese' joys,
To rise at peep of day, and pass forth nimbly to work,
To plough land in the fall for winter-sown crops,
To plough land in the spring for maize,
To train orchards—to graft the trees—to gather
apples in the fall.

29.O the pleasure with trees!
The orchard—the forest—the oak, cedar, pine,
pekan-tree,
The honey-locust, black-walnut, cottonwood, and magnolia.

30.O Death!
O the beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing
a few moments, for reasons;
O that of myself, discharging my excrementitious
body, to be burned, or rendered to powder, or
buried,
My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres,
My voided body, nothing more to me, returning to the
purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the
earth.

31.O to bathe in the swimming-bath, or in a good place
along shore!
To splash the water! to walk ankle-deep; to race
naked along the shore.