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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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ME IMPERTURBE.
ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, |
Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational
things,
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Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, |
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less im-
portant than I thought,
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Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennes-
see, or far north or inland,
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A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these
States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
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Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingen-
cies,
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To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
the trees and animals do.
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