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object:1.whitman - Mannahatta
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
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I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name!

Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly,
    musical, self-sufficient;
I see that the word of my city is that word up there,
Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, with
    tall and wonderful spires,
Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamshipsan
    island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,
Numberless crowded streetshigh growths of iron, slender, strong,
    light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies;
Tide swift and ample, well-loved by me, toward sundown,
The flowing sea-currents, the little islands, larger adjoining
    islands, the heights, the villas,
The countless masts, the white shore-steamers, the lighters, the
    ferry-boats, the black sea-steamers well-model'd;    


The down-town streets, the jobbers' houses of businessthe houses of
    business of the ship-merchants, and money-brokersthe river-
    streets;
Immigrants arriving, fifteen or twenty thousand in a week;
The carts hauling goodsthe manly race of drivers of horsesthe
    brown-faced sailors;
The summer air, the bright sun shining, and the sailing clouds aloft;
The winter snows, the sleigh-bellsthe broken ice in the river,
    passing along, up or down, with the flood tide or ebb-tide;
The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form'd, beautiful-faced,
    looking you straight in the eyes;
Trottoirs throng'dvehiclesBroadwaythe womenthe shops and
    shows,
The parades, processions, bugles playing, flags flying, drums
    beating;
A million peoplemanners free and superbopen voiceshospitality
    the most courageous and friendly young men;
The free city! no slaves! no owners of slaves!        


The beautiful city, the city of hurried and sparkling waters! the
    city of spires and masts!
The city nested in bays! my city!
The city of such women, I am mad to be with them! I will return after
    death to be with them!
The city of such young men, I swear I cannot live happy, without I
    often go talk, walk, eat, drink, sleep, with them!






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