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Far-swooping elbowed Earth! Rich, apple-blossomed
Earth!
Smile, for Your Lover comes!

117.Prodigal, you have given me love! Therefore I to
you give love!
O unspeakable passionate love!

118.Thruster holding me tight, and that I hold tight!
We hurt each other as the bridegroom and the bride
hurt each other.

119.You Sea! I resign myself to you also—I guess
what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
We must have a turn together—I undress—hurry
me out of sight of the land,
Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet—I can repay you.

120.Sea of stretched ground-swells!
Sea breathing broad and convulsive breaths!
Sea of the brine of life! Sea of unshovelled and
always-ready graves!
Howler and scooper of storms! Capricious and dainty
Sea!
I am integral with you—I too am of one phase, and
of all phases.
 
121.Partaker of influx and efflux—extoller of hate and
conciliation,
Extoller of amies, and those that sleep in each others'
arms.