- Me imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
- Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational things,
- Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
- Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less
- important than I thought,
- Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,
- or far north or inland,
- 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,
- Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
- To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
- the trees and animals do.