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My spirit has pass’d in compassion and determination around the whole earth, + 

I have look’d for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands, + 

I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them. + 

You vapors, I think I have risen with you, moved away to distant continents, and fallen down there, for reasons, + 

I think I have blown with you you winds; + 

You waters I have finger’d every shore with you, + 

I have run through what any river or strait of the globe has run through, + 

I have taken my stand on the bases of peninsulas and on the high embedded rocks, to cry thence: + 

Salut au monde! + 

What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself, + 

All islands to which birds wing their way I wing my way myself. + 

Toward you all, in America’s name, + 

I raise high the perpendicular hand, I make the signal, + 

To remain after me in sight forever, + 

For all the haunts and homes of men. + 