Here, take this gift!I was reserving it for some hero, speaker, or General,One who should serve the good old cause, the great Idea, the progress…

Of Public Opinion; Of a calm and cool fiat, sooner or later, (How impassive! How certain and final!) Of the President with pale face, asking secretly to…

I Of ownership, As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself.  II…

Of these years I sing,How they pass and have pass’d, through convuls’d pains as through parturitions;How America illustrates birth, muscular youth, the promise, the sure…

Of what I write from myself, As if that were not the resum�; Of Histories, As if such, however complete, were not less complete than the…

Of equality, As if it harm�d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself, As if it were not indispensable to my own…

Of Justice�As if Justice could be anything but the same ample law, expounded by natural judges and saviors, As if it might be this thing or…

As I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral, in…

Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like; To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except…

Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men, following the lead of…