Published Works
Manuscripts
Biography & Correspondence
Criticism
Resources
Pictures & Sound
About the Archive
Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
contents
|
previous
|
next
contents
|
previous
|
next
TO A HISTORIAN.
| YOU who celebrate bygones, |
|
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races, the life
that has exhibited itself, |
|
Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates,
rulers and priests, |
|
I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself
in his own rights, |
|
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the
great pride of man in himself,) |
| Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, |
| I project the history of the future. |