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Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed – and gazed –
but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then
my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
No. 11.
Broadway
by Walt Whitman
What hurrying human tides, or day or night!
What passions, winnings, losses, ardours, swim thy waters!
What whirls of evil, bliss and sorrow, stem thee!
What curious questioning glances – glints of love!
Leer, envy, scorn, contempt, hope, aspiration!
Thou por tal – thou arena – thou of the
myriad long-drawn lines and
groups!
(Could but thy flagstones, curbs, facades, tell their inimitable tales;
Thy windows rich, and huge hotels –
thy side-walks wide;)
Thou of the endless sliding, mincing, shuffling feet!
Thou, like the parti-coloured world itself – like infinite, teeming,
mocking life!
Thou visor’d, vast, unspeakable show and lesson!
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