Why reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing? + 

What deepening twilight⁠—scum floating atop of the waters, + 

Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol? + 

What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!) + 

Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President? + 

Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons; + 

(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake, + 

South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.) + 