Europe: the 72nd and 73rd years of these states
There was a child went forth
On the beach at night alone
To a foil'd European revolutionaire
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking
As I ebb'd with the ocean of life
From pent-up aching rivers
Once I pass'd through a populous city
Facing west from California's shores.
As Adam early in the morning
Scented herbage of my breast
Bivouac on a mountain side
An Army corps on the march
By the bivouac's fitful flame
Come up from the fields Father
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night
A march in the banks hard-prest, and the road unknown
A night in camp in the daybreak gray and dim
As toilsome I wander'd Virginia's woods
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
A noiseless patient spider
The dalliance of the eagles
