O the mother's joys! The watching, the endurance, the precious love, the anguish, the patiently yielded life. O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods. O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
O the fireman's joys! I hear the alarm at dead of night, I hear bells, shouts! I pass the crowd, I run! The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure. O the horseman's and horsewoman's joys! The saddle, the gallop, the pressure upon the seat, the cool gurgling by the ears and hair. O the gleesome saunter over fields and hillsides! The leaves and flowers of the commonest weeds, the moist fresh stillness of the woods, The exquisite smell of the earth at daybreak, and all through the forenoon. O the engineer's joys! to go with a locomotive! To hear the hiss of steam, the merry shriek, the steam-whistle, the laughing locomotive! To push with resistless way and speed off in the distance. O for the voices of animals-O for the swiftness and balance of fishes! O for the dropping of raindrops in a song! O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song! O the joy of my spirit-it is uncaged-it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.
#WALT WHITMAN SAIL FORTH FULL#
O to make the most jubilant song! Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments-full of grain and trees.
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