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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, + 

Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, + 

Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows, + 

Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape, + 

Give me fresh corn and wheat, give me serene-moving animals teaching content, + 

Give me nights perfectly quiet as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars, + 

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturb’d, + 

Give me for marriage a sweet-breath’d woman of whom I should never tire, + 

Give me a perfect child, give me away aside from the noise of the world a rural domestic life, + 

Give me to warble spontaneous songs recluse by myself, for my own ears only, + 

Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities! + 

These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack’d by the war-strife,) + 

These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart, + 

While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city, + 

Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets, + 

Where you hold me enchain’d a certain time refusing to give me up, + 

Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich’d of soul, you give me forever faces; + 

(O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, + 

I see my own soul trampling down what it ask’d for.) + 