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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT.)
[Impromptu on Buffalo City's monument to, and re-burial of the old Iroquois orator, October 9, 1884.]
Upon this scene, this show, |
Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth, |
(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,) |
Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended
shapes,
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As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul, |
Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human
form,
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In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile
curving its phantom lips,
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Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down. |
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